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Top 10 REALLY Seriously Underrated Books (100 to 500 Ratings) : Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt, Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire, Possum Come a-Knockin', The Dubious Hills, The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology, And So It Goes: Adventures in Television, Along The Enchanted Way: A Romanian Story, The Silver Ship and the Sea, Monsieur

Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
AuthorEllen Meloy
Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest....
Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt
AuthorG.R. Reader


Available in hyperlinked PDF form from this Lulu page for $0.99. The Creative Commons license means you're legally allowed to make copies and share it with your friends.

For old-fashioned people who like real books, I hear rather specific rumors that a print version will soon be available....
Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire
AuthorWade Davis
ISBN0767904028
" One of the intense pleasures of travel is the opportunity to live among people who have not forgotten the old ways, who still feel their past in the wind, touch it in stones polished by rain, recognize its taste in the bitter leaves of plants."
In this riveting collection of stories and essays, gifted...
Possum Come a-Knockin'
AuthorNancy Van Laan
ISBN0679834680
This book was given to my 14-month-old daughter as a gift because her parents dressed her as a possum for her first birthday. Cute, huh? No really. It WAS cute. You should see the pictures.

Anyway, while the illustrations leave something to be desired, the key to Possum Come A-Knockin' is the...
The Dubious Hills
AuthorPamela Dean
ISBN0812523628
This is a very peculiar book. The Dubious Hills are a place deliberately set aside from the rest of the fantasy world they are part of by a great spell performed by wizards long ago. There is no traffic to speak of in and out and weird rules govern the workings of the inhabitants' lives. For one, each area of...
The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology
AuthorBernd Heinrich
ISBN0060742151
From Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World, comes the remarkable story of his father's life, his family's past, and how the forces of history and nature have shaped his own life. Although Bernd Heinrich's father, Gerd, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd tried to distance...
And So It Goes: Adventures in Television
AuthorLinda Ellerbee
ISBN0425102378
Linda Ellerbee (born Linda Jane Smith) is a journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington (DC) correspondent, and reporter and co-anchor of NBC News Overnight, which was recognized by the duPont Columbia Awards as "the best written and most intelligent news program...
Along The Enchanted Way: A Romanian Story
AuthorWilliam Blacker
ISBN0719597900
When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world. There, for many years he lived side by side with the country people, a life ruled by the slow cycle of the seasons, far away from the frantic rush of the modern world. In spring as the...
The Silver Ship and the Sea
AuthorBrenda Cooper
ISBN0765315971
The colony planet Fremont is joyous, riotous, and very wild.  Its grasses can cut your arms and legs to ribbons, the rinds of its precious fruit can skewer your thumbs, and some of the predators are bigger than humans.  Meteors fall from the sky and volcanoes erupt.  Fremont is verdant, rich, beautiful,...
Monsieur
AuthorLawrence Durrell
ISBN0571106609
Shimmering with sensuous ecstasy, dark with terror and mystery, this is the extraordinary novel of a "happy trinity of lovers." The diplomat Piers, his sister Sylvie, and the English doctor Bruce are at the heart of Durrell's new creation, as is the medieval walled city of Avignon. And haunting them...
Search of the Moon King's Daughter
AuthorLinda Holeman
ISBN0887766099
Included in one of the 2004 YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults lists

Nominated for the White Pine Reading Program of the Durham District School Board

Gentle Emmaline loves nothing more than books and flowers and her little brother Tommy. Sadly, her idyllic country life in...
The Trespass
AuthorBarbara Ewing
ISBN0312314205
London 1849. The capital city is living in fear. Cholera is everywhere. Eminent MP Sir Charles Cooper decides it is too risky for his younger daughter, the strangely beautiful and troubled Harriet, and sends her-but not her beloved sister Mary-to the countryside.

Rusholme is a world away...
England Under the Tudors
AuthorG.R. Elton
First published in 1955 and never out of print, this wonderfully written text by one of the great historians of the twentieth century has guided generations of students through the turbulent history of Tudor England.

Now in its third edition, England Under the Tudors charts a historical period...
Unlikely Stories, Mostly
AuthorAlasdair Gray
ISBN0140069259
With his first collection of short fiction, Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Scottish artist and author Alasdair Gray perfected the blend of visual and verbal elements which has since characterised his work.

The book’s dust jacket advertises the cocktail of surreal, macabre and mock-historical...
Doctor Dolittle in the Moon
AuthorHugh Lofting
ISBN0224604449
In Doctor Dolittle in the Moon Doctor Dolittle has landed on the Moon. He meets Otho Bludge the Moon Man, a Stone Age artist who was the only human on the Moon when it broke away from the Earth. The animals of the Moon flock to Doctor Dolittle, and he discovers how to communicate with the intelligent plants...
An Alien Light
AuthorNancy Kress
ISBN0380707063
The human species is at war with the Ged, a collective species that is baffled by humankind’s ability to turn violence upon itself & yet advance into space. In order to defeat the humans, the Ged must first understand them.
So they go to a world called Qom, where a lost Earth colony has forgotten...
Fire, Bed, and Bone
AuthorHenrietta Branford
ISBN0763629928
Thanks Soairse for recommending this book.

Summary: in 1381 England a hunting dog recounts what happens to her beloved master Rufus and his family when they are arrested on suspicion of being part of the peasants rebellion lead by Wat Tyler and the preacher John Ball.

Although slanted...
Peter Pan: or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up: A Fantasy in Five Acts
AuthorJ.M. Barrie
ISBN0822213451
This is the beloved story of Peter, Wendy, Michael, John, Capt. Hook, Smee, the lost boys, pirates and the indians, and, of course, Tinker Bell, in their adventures in Never Land. However, for the first time, the play is here restored to Barrie's original intentions. In the words of John Caird: "A brief...
The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
AuthorMinister Faust
ISBN0345466357
Hamza and Yehat are The Coyote Kings' best friends, one a disgruntled dishwasher and the other a video store clerk, but each brilliant in his own right. Yehat builds prototypes of space-age inventions in his spare time, while Hamza, a former English honors student who was kicked out of the university,...
Filter House
AuthorNisi Shawl
ISBN1933500190
Filter House collects fourteen stories by Nisi Shawl, with an introduction by Eileen Gunn (author of Stable Strategies). The collection offers a haunting montage that works its magic subtly on the reader's subconscious. As Karen Joy Fowler, Author of The Jane Austen Book Club says, ''This lovely...
Forests: The Shadow of Civilization
AuthorRobert Pogue Harrison
ISBN0226318079
In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Consistently insightful and beautifully...
An Age Like This: 1920-1940
AuthorGeorge Orwell
ISBN1567921337
George Orwell is a major figure in twentieth-century literature. The author of Down and Out in Paris and London, Nineteen Eighty-four, and Animal Farm, he published ten books and two collections of essays during his lifetime -- but in terms of actual words, produced much more than seems possible for...
Ill Met by Moonlight
AuthorW. Stanley Moss
ISBN0304352594
Ill Met By Moonlight is the gripping account of the audacious World War II abduction of a German general from the island of Crete. British special forces officers W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh Fermor, together with a small band of Cretan partisans, kidnapped the general, then evaded numerous German...
Inventing the Middle Ages
AuthorNorman F. Cantor
ISBN0688123023
The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century

In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was born in the twentieth...
Lilith
AuthorJ.R. Salamanca
this is, without question, one of the most haunting books that I've ever read. I just thought about it again, and I became unsettled again. I got a literal shiver. This is a fantastic read. It is like Lolita, but the story has a better narrative arc and a more dramatic feeling instead of satirical. This book...
Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder
AuthorNadia Shivack
ISBN0689852169
"Every day, meal by meal, millions of people suffer from eating disorders. I am one of them."

Nadia Shivack was fourteen years old when she met Ed, her eating disorder. Sometimes like an alien in her body, sometimes like a lover, Ed was unpredictable and exciting, but ultimately always dangerous...
The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse
AuthorWendy Maltz
ISBN0060959649
Considered a classic in its field, this comprehensive guide will help survivors of sexual abuse improve their relationships and discover the joys of sexual intimacy. Wendy Maltz takes survivors step-by-step through the recovery process using groundbreaking exercises and techniques. Based on...
The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Alaska Wilderness
AuthorJohn Meade Haines
Oh boy, this book got me thinking... I mean really thinking hard... like contemplating on things around me for hours. In my first year living in a quiet village and very connected to the mother nature, I guess I kind of needed Haines' insight. Maybe that's why my hubby recommended this book to me so strongly....
Mind Over Ship
AuthorDavid Marusek
ISBN0765317494
The year is 2135, and the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth’s orbit and begin to convert them into space condos. Ellen Starke’s head, rescued from the fiery crash that killed her mother, struggles...
On Strike Against God
AuthorJoanna Russ
ISBN0895941864
I am so frustrated by not taking note of, or action on, this at the time, but I read something the other day that referenced something being "catty," in a "second wave feminist" way. What the fuck. How can I not remember where I read something so appalling? This book is Joanna Russ's only non-sci fi novel....
The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade
AuthorRikki Ducornet
ISBN0345441044
”In this state of rootless imagining, my mind seizes upon the most unexpected associations. Drops of fat suspended in my soup become the ocular devices of archons; a baneful spider stalking fleas exemplifies the pubic triangles of embalmed houris; a copple-crown turd warns of the Revolution’s...
All About H. Hatterr
AuthorG.V. Desani
ISBN1590172426
Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta....
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