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| Title |
Author |
Rating |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain | Veto |
| A Deadly Shade of Gold | John D. MacDonald | Good |
| A Purple Place For Dying | John D. MacDonald | Excellent |
| A Tan and Sandy Silence | John D. MacDonald | Good |
| A Wind in the Door | Madeleine L'Engle | Ok |
| A Wrinkle In Time | Madeleine L'Engle | Good |
| And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | Excellent |
| Another Roadside Attraction | Tom Robbins | Veto |
| Apprentice Adept: Split Infinity | Piers Anthony | Ok |
| Arc of the Dream | A.A. Attanasio | Veto |
| Armageddon 2419 A.D. | Philip Frances Nowlan | Poor |
| Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis | Veto |
| Ashenden | W. Somerset Maugham | Good + |
| Assemblers of Infinity | Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason | Veto |
| At Winter's End | Robert Silverberg | Veto |
| Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis | Veto |
| Beethoven - The Composer as Hero | Philippe A. Autexier | Good |
| Behind the Walls of Terra | Philip Jose Farmer | Good |
| Bel-Ami | Guy de Maupassant | Excellent |
| Beyond The Moon (The Star Kings) | Edmond Hamilton | Good |
| Bill, The Galactic Hero On The Planet Of Bottled Brains | Harry Harrison and Robert Sheckley | Veto |
| Black Star Rising | Frederik Pohl | Veto |
| Bolo | Keith Laumer | Good |
| Bridge of Ashes | Roger Zelazny | Good |
| Bright Orange for the Shroud | John D. MacDonald | Good |
| Call Of The Wild | Jack London | Good |
| Candide | Voltaire | Good |
| Case and the Dreamer | Theodore Sturgeon | Good |
| Case For Sergeant Beef | Leo Bruce | Veto |
| Catalina | W. Somerset Maugham | Good |
| Cerberus: A wolf in the fold | Jack L. Chalker | Ok |
| Changeling | Roger Zelazny | Ok |
| Charon: A dragon at the gate | Jack L. Chalker | Ok |
| Children of Infinity | Roger Elwood | Good |
| Christmas Holiday | W. Somerset Maugham | Good + |
| Cinnamon Skin | John D. MacDonald | Good |
| City | Clifford D. Simak | Good + |
| Comanchee Moon | Larry Mc Murty | Veto |
| Corona | Greg Bear | Good |
| Couplehood | Paul Riser | Ok |
| Crashlander | Larry Niven | Good + |
| Cross Creek | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | Veto |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand | Excellent |
| Darker Than Amber | John D. MacDonald | Good |
| Death is a lonely business | Ray Bradbury | Veto |
| Decline And Fall | Evelyn Waugh | Good + |
| Donnerjack | Roger Zelazny | Ok |
| Doorways in the Sand | Roger Zelazny | Ok |
| Dress Her in Indigo | John D. MacDonald | Ok |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | Good |
| Earth Made of Glass | John Barnes | Veto |
| Ellison Wonderland | Harlan Ellison | Good |
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | Superior |
| Ender's Shadow | Orson Scott Card | Excellent |
| Endymion | Dan Simmons | Ok |
| Eon | Greg Bear | Ok |
| Exiles | James Joyce | Good + |
| Flux | Orson Scott Card | Ok |
| Forging the Darksword | Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman | Good |
| Forward in Time | Ben Bova | Good |
| From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E.L. Konigsburg | Good |
| Galaxy 30 years of sci-fi anthology | multiple | Good |
| Ghost From The Grand Banks | Arthur C. Clarke | Good |
| Good Omens: The nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch | Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett | Veto |
| Hallowe'en Party | Agatha Christie | Veto |
| Happy All The Time | Laurie Colwin | Excellent |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | J.K. Rowling | Good + |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | Good + |
| His Last Bow | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Good |
| Humphrey Clinker | Tobias Smollett | Veto |
| I am Jackie Chan | Jackie Chan w/ Jeff Yang | Good |
| I Sing the Body Electric | Ray Bradbury | Ok |
| I Will Fear No Evil | Robert A. Heinlein | Veto |
| I, Robot - The illustrated screenplay | Harlan Ellison | Good |
| If I'm Lost, How Come I Found You? | Walter Oleksy | Veto |
| Illusions | Richard Bach | Superior |
| Inifinity Link | Jeffrey A. Carver | Poor |
| Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice | Good |
| Left Behind | Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins | Good + |
| Les Liasisons Dangereuses | Choderlos de Laclos | Excellent |
| Lilith: A snake in the grass | Jack L. Chalker | Good |
| Logan's Run | William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson | Good |
| Lord of Light | Roger Zelazny | Excellent |
| Lord Valentine's Castle | Robert Silverberg | Veto |
| Lythande | Marion Zimmer Bradley | Good |
| Magic Kingdom For Sale - Sold! | Terry Brooks | Good |
| Majipoor Chronicles | Robert Silverberg | Good |
| Medusa: A tiger by the tail | Jack L. Chalker | Good |
| Mindkiller | Spider Robinson | Good |
| Mining the Oort | Frederik Pohl | Good |
| Miss Pickerell and the Supertanker | Ellen MacGregor and Dora Pantell | Poor |
| Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe | Ok |
| Music for Chameleons | Truman Capote | Good + |
| Mutants | various | Good |
| Narcissus and Goldmund | Hermann Hesse | Good |
| Nebula Awards Stories 8 | various | Good |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson | Ok |
| Nobody Ever Sees You Eat Tuna Fish | David Brenner | Good |
| Obsidian Butterfly | Laurell K. Hamilton | Veto |
| Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham | Superior |
| Ole Doc Methuselah | L. Ron Hubbard | Veto |
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Ian Fleming | Ok |
| One Fearful Yellow Eye | John D. MacDonald | Good |
| One For the Morning Glory | John Barnes | Good |
| Our Hearts | Guy de Maupassant | Good + |
| Out of the Silent Planet | C.S. Lewis | Ok |
| Outnumbering the Dead | Frederick Pohl | Ok |
| Paingod and other Delusions | Harlan Ellison | Good |
| Pale Gray for Guilt | John D. MacDonald | Good |
| Podkayne of Mars | Robert A. Heinlein | Poor |
| Power Lines | Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough | Veto |
| Prostho Plus | Piers Anthony | Good |
| Pygmalion | Bernard Shaw | Good + |
| Red Mars | Kim Stanely Robinson | Veto |
| Red Planet | Robert A. Heinlein | Good |
| Robot Dreams | Isaac Asimov | Good |
| Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | Excellent |
| Shadow of the Hegemon | Orson Scott Card | Good + |
| Shatner: Where no man | Shatner/Sondra Marshak/Myrna Culbreath | Veto |
| Sherlock Holmes and the case of Sabina Hall | L.B. Greenwood | Veto |
| Showboat World | Jack Vance | Veto |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | Superior |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | Excellent |
| Space Viking | H. Beam Piper | Good |
| Star of Gypsies | Robert Silverberg | Good + |
| Star Trek Memories | William Shatner with Chris Kreski | Veto |
| Star Trek: Final Frontier | Diane Carey | Good |
| Star Trek: The Classic Episodes | James Blish | Veto |
| Star Trek: The Kobayashi Maru #47 | Julia Ecklar | Good |
| Stargate | Dean Devilin & Roland Emmerich | Ok |
| Starman's Son | Andre Norton | Ok |
| Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein | Excellent |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | Ok |
| Surrender the Pink | Carrie Fisher | Ok |
| The Age of Grief | Jane Smiley | Good |
| The Avenger #20 The Green Killer | Kenneth Robeson | Veto |
| The Black Unicorn | Terry Brooks | Veto |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Good |
| The Cat Who Walks Through Walls | Robert A. Heinlein | Veto |
| The Caterpillar's Question | Piers Anthony & Philip Jose Farmer | Ok |
| The Caves of Steel | Isaac Asimov | Ok |
| The City of Gold and Lead | John Christopher | Good |
| The Complete Book of Swords | Fred Saberhagen | Veto |
| The Crystal Cave | Mary Stewart | Good |
| The Currents of Space | Isaac Asimov | Good |
| The Dark Beyond the Stars | Frank M. Robinson | Good + |
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Tolstoy | Good |
| The Deep Blue Good-by | John D. MacDonald | Good |
| The Demons at Rainbow Bridge | Jack L. Chalker | Good + |
| The Difference Engine | William Gibson and Bruce Sterling | Veto |
| The Dragon, the Earl, and the Troll | Gordon R. Dickson | Veto |
| The Duchess of Jermyn Street | Daphne Fielding | Veto |
| The Fleet - The Fleet | various | Ok |
| The Forge of God | Greg Bear | Veto |
| The Frankenstein Papers | Fred Saberhagen | Excellent |
| The Galactic Pot Healer | Philip K. Dick | Poor |
| The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper | John D. MacDonald | Good + |
| The Godmakers | Frank Herbert | Good + |
| The Gods Themselves | Isaac Asimov | Ok |
| The Golden Key and Other Stories | George MacDonald | Ok |
| The Green Ripper | John D. MacDonald | Good |
| The Hollow Hills | Mary Stewart | Veto |
| The House at Pooh Corner | A.A. Milne | Excellent |
| The Integral Trees | Larry Niven | Ok |
| The Jupiter Theft | Donald Moffett | Veto |
| The Last Defender of Camelot | Roger Zelazny | Good |
| The Learned Ladies | Moliere | Good + |
| The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | Good + |
| The Lifeship | Harry Harrison and Gordon R. Dickson | Good |
| The Little Lame Prince | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik | Ok |
| The Lonely Silver Rain | John D. MacDonald | Excellent |
| The Long Lavender Look | John D. MacDonald | Good |
| The Lost Princess | George MacDonald | Good |
| The Magic Labyrinth | Philip Jose Farmer | Veto |
| The Many-Colored Land | Julian May | Veto |
| The Mask Of Loki | Roger Zelazny & Thomas T. Thomas | Veto |
| The Merry-go-round | W. Somerset Maugham | Good + |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | Ok |
| The Moon And Sixpence | W. Somerset Maugham | Good + |
| The Naked Sun | Isaac Asimov | Good |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | Good + |
| The Planet Buyer | Cordwainer Smith | Ok |
| The Postman | David Brin | Good + |
| The Princess and Curdie | George MacDonald | Good |
| The Princess and the Goblin | George MacDonald | Good |
| The Quick Red Fox | John D. MacDonald | Good |
| The Razor's Edge | W. Somerset Maugham | Superior |
| The Rise of Silas Lapham | William Dean Howells | Veto |
| The Run To Chaos Keep | Jack L. Chalker | Ok |
| The Scarlet Ruse | John D. MacDonald | Good |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Good |
| The Slaves of Heaven | Edmund Cooper | Veto |
| The Songs of Distant Earth | Arthur C. Clarke | Good |
| The Stainless Steel Rat | Harry Harrison | Good |
| The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted | Harry Harrison | Good |
| The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell | Harry Harrison | Good |
| The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues | Harry Harrison | Good |
| The Stars Like Dust | Isaac Asimov | Corny |
| The Sword in the Stone | T.H. White | Veto |
| The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge | Carlos Castaneda | Ok |
| The Turquoise Lament | John D. MacDonald | Good + |
| The Ugly Little Boy | Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg | Ok |
| The Voyage of the Space Beagle | A.E. van Vogt | Veto |
| The Way of the World | WIlliam Congreve | Good |
| The White Mountains | John Christopher | Good |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | Veto |
| The Winter of the World | Poul Anderson | Veto |
| The World's Best Fairy Tales | Reader's Digest Anthology | Good |
| The Worthing Chronicle | Orson Scott Card | Excellent |
| This Immortal | Roger Zelazny | Ok |
| Time Pressure | Spider Robinson | Good |
| Today We Choose Faces | Roger Zelazny | Excellent |
| Too Too Solid Flesh | Nick O' Donohoe | Veto |
| Trips in Time | Robert Silverberg | Ok |
| Triton | Samuel R. Delany | Ok |
| Tunnel in the Sky | Robert A. Heinlein | Good + |
| Une Vie | Guy de Maupassant | Veto |
| Up At The Villa | W. Somerset Maugham | Good + |
| Up The Line | Robert Silverberg | Veto |
| Washington Square | Henry James | Good + |
| Web of Light | Marion Zimmer Bradley | Veto |
| Web of the Witch World | Andre Norton | Ok |
| When the Tripods Came | John Christopher | Veto |
| Whipping Star | Frank Herbert | Ok |
| Wicked | Gregory Maguire | Good |
| Wildcards | Multiple Authors | Good |
| Wildcards 6: Ace In The Hole | various | Veto |
| Wings Of The Dove | Henry James | |
| Witch World | Andre Norton | Ok |
| Women In Love | D.H. Lawrence | Veto |
| Xanth: Question Quest | Piers Anthony | Ok |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig | Veto |