1. Darkwitch Rising (Sara Douglass)
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray AGAIN (Oscar Wilde)
3. Still trying at Finnegan's Wake (James Joyce)

Just read Blood and gold and Blood canticle by Anee Rice.
Reading Queen of the Damned again now ofcourse also by Rice.

Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams

Just finished 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick, in time for the re-release of 'Blade Runner' to Theatres.

Now reading 'Black Company', by Glen Cook.

I just finished "White Oleander", which is a great book. I read it in two days, I just couldn't put it down! It brought out the artistic inspiration I desperately needed. The film is also nice, I recommend it.

I'm currently reading "Requiem for a Dream."

It's an interesting book. The author's style of writing is quite fascinating to me. The way he doesn't use quotation marks for conversation, and the way he uses slash marks when he writes things like he/s and she/s. I like it.

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Dick's work is great; how did you like it? And there's a re-release of Blade Runner? My husband is going to Lose His Natural Mind when I tell him! Thanks!

As for me, I'm re-reading "Dune" by Frank Herbert----the classics just don't get old.

"The Black Book of Secrets" by F.E. Higgins

I read a lot of different genres, but I need to read up on some goth literature... so I'm reading this giant book full of all of Edgar Allen Poe's stories. (currently reading the fall of the house of usher)

Does anyone have anymore suggestions?

I recommend the magic schoolbus.

o.o OH yes. Very goth.

No such thing.

Thank the spaghetti monster someone said that.

I disagree.

Well, you'd be wrong. There's gothic literature, not goth literature which implies you're making a link between this campy music subculture and a literary form.
Now, this is just not splitting hairs. Gothic literature is bullshit. I can respect William Faulkner (who is the big talented guy in gothic literature, not Poe), but Gothic Literature is, simply put, plain old superfluous bullshit.
Gothic literature was the big thing in the nineteenth century. Every materialistic bourgeois wanted to read the new edition of Varney the Vampire. Gothic Literature was very detailed, but so was Transcendentalist literature which wasn't to please the masses. The only reason Edgar Allan Poe wrote horror fiction was because he had to make the living, and that was what everyone wanted. It's an insult to remember Edgar Allan Poe as a horror fiction writer and the epitome of gothic literature. He should be remembered because of his incomparable rhythm. He should be remembered for beginning the detective stories. He should be remember for being a proto-science fiction writer. Never because he wrote the occasional story that gave the standard Victorian a pleasant, well-known, done-to-death (no pun intended) chill down their conformist spine.
Edgar Allan Poe had more to do with Herman Melville than with Bram Stoker.

Gothic, it's what I meant. Sorry if I left off the "ic" at that end.

Yeah, but still. In any case, I just wanted to get that out. Gothic literature annoys me.

Ah, okie. I couldn't tell you whether it annoys me or not. I haven't read enough. Other than Poe, I've read Frankenstein. *shrugs* Oh well.

Stephen King's The Stand. I'm trying to get through it so I can finish the Dark Tower series. I'm about half-way through, but I'm not sure I'm going to make it! ;___;

Bella Sophia,

Gothic would include Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, "Turn of the Screw"; poems by Lord Byron; anything by Ambrose Bierce.

Goth lit would include Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Neil Gaiman, Zenna Henderson, anything on ghosts/haunted houses (Hans Holzer is a good place to start). Goth mangas and graphics are also good to check out, like Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" series, "Gloom Cookie" and "Bizenghast" (think I spelled it right) work, too. Good luck.

(Many moons ago, I worked in a library).

I finally finished reading "Beowulf" (translated, of course, though it probably wouldn't hurt to learn a bit of Old English). Right now I'm reading "The Canterbury Tales" (the original version), though I'm thinking of switching to the Modern English translation if I ever intend to finish it.

Beowulf is great. I always loved that story i need some ideas on some good books i read all the harry potter books, almost finished with the anne rice books. Hopefully i can find a good writer on the same level as they are. If anyone knows of one would be helpful.

Everyone loves Poe