Brent's Books 2012

50. The Elizabethan World Picture
E.M.W. Tillyard

49. Inventing English
 Seth Lerer

48. The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth Century Poetry
John Sitter

47. The Art of Civilized Conversation
Margaret Shephard

46. Scenes From An Impending Marriage
Adrian Tomine

45. Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?
Jimmy Carr / Lucy Greeves

44. Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver

43. What Every Web Developer Should Know About HTTP
K. Scott Allen

42. Because You Have To
Joan Frank

41. And Now We Shall Do Manly Things
Craig J. Heimbuch

40. Reinventing Comics
Scott McCloud

39. The Tempest
William Shakespeare

28-38. The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, The Carnivorous Carnival, The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, The Penultimate Peril
Lemony Snicket

27. The Shakespeare Wars
Ron Rosenblum

26. The Professor and the Madman
Simon Winchester

25. The Bridge to San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder

24. Congress of the Animals
Jim Woodring

23. The Good Pope
Greg Tobin

22. A Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
Ian Mortimer

21. Millie Fierce
Jane Manning

20. The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare

19. Looking for Alaska
John Green

18. The Last of the Innocent
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

17. The Postmortal
Drew Magary

16. Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser

15. The American Bible
 Stephen Prothero

14. You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup
Peter Doggett

13. Virgil and Beatrice
 Yann Martel

12. American Pastoral
Philip Roth

11. The Dip
Seth Godin

10. Babywise
Gary Ezzo

9. Hail to the Chief
Ed McBain

8. My Teacher Is An Alien
Bruce Coville

7. Shakespeare: The World As a Stage
Bill Bryson

6. Supergods
Grant Morrison

5. Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell

4. The Light Fantastic
Terry Pratchett

3. Coriolanus
William Shakespeare

2. Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein

1. Matilda
Roald Dahl