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1drewza89
Sep 15, 2009, 11:36 pm

Does anybody know where I can find a complete list of every book Easton Press has ever put out? I haven't been able to find any good resources on the internet.

While we're at it, does anybody know of any good Easton Press fan sites?

2natashaslove
Sep 16, 2009, 9:32 am

There was a similar discussion about a list for Easton Press on a different group, and I remember someone saying that they called EP and apparently no record is kept of all the books published. If there is such a list, it would have had to be compiled by someone who has all the catalogs. I wish they had something like the Folio 60 published by the Folio Society.

3cweller
Sep 16, 2009, 11:01 am

>1 drewza89: Not quite what you are looking for, but I've found the guides listed on Ebay helpful.

http://search.reviews.ebay.com/easton-press_W0QQuqtZg

They at least cover the majority of the Easton series

4bumblesby
Sep 16, 2009, 9:26 pm

>3 cweller: Wow thanks. I didn't know that there were such lists on Ebay.

It is really quite strange that Easton does not keep track of all the books they have published. You would think they could come up with the list at least for the last 20 years. Well, maybe the computer crashed a few years ago and they lost everything :)

5Ealhmund
Sep 17, 2009, 12:36 am

related to this thread:
Heritage Press Sandglass Companion Book: 1937-1959
and
Heritage Press Sandglass Companion Book: 1960-1983

Folio 60

Os.

sorry, unreliable touchstones

6Ealhmund
Sep 17, 2009, 12:39 am

>5 Ealhmund:
Also, If you have a later Modern Library edition, it may well have a list of all books in the series (perhaps on the dust-wrapper). Same with the Everyman Library series.

So, Easton is a bit out of step, it seems.

Os.

7bumblesby
Sep 18, 2009, 8:22 am

I have recently found out about those Heritage Press Companion books. It is my understanding it took many years of research to compile it.

There is also the Annotative Bibliography series by the same author Michael C. Bussacco. The AB is a series of 4 volumes. It appears the 4th is not available yet.

All of the above are available through Amazon if anyone is interested.

8TTCdevote
Edited: Dec 10, 2009, 12:14 pm

Since I bealive is a nonsense and a time wasting the need to inquire by email the Easton Press stuff just in order to have a simple list of the titles them have into the series, I forward them here:

GREAT BOOKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY (List updated December 2009)

The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton

Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather

The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann

All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque

Dr. Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak

Native Son
by Richard Wright

All the King’s Men
by Robert Penn Warren

Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury

Night
by Elie Wiesel

The Ambassadors
by Henry James

Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis

The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand

Of Human Bondage
by Somerset Maugham

The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath

Go Tell it on the Mountain
by James Baldwin

On The Road
by Jack Kerouac

Beloved
by Toni Morrison

Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by Ken Kesey

Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh

The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Márquez

The Call of the Wild
by Jack London

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers

A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster

Catch-22
by Joseph Heller

In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote

Portnoy’s Complaint
by Philip Roth

A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess

Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison

The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene

The Color Purple
by Alice Walker

Light in August
by William Faulkner

Rabbit, Run
by John Updike

Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler

Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov

Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
(over, please)
The Stranger
by Albert Camus

To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee

Ulysses
by James Joyce

The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway

To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf

Women in Love
by D.H. Lawrence

Swann’s Way
by Marcel Proust

The Trial
by Franz Kafka

9TTCdevote
Dec 10, 2009, 11:52 am

BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (List updated December 2009)

Democracy in America – volumes I & II
Alexis de Tocqueville

The Meaning of Relativity
Albert Einstein

Principia
Isaac Newton

On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin

Revolutionibus
Nicolaus Copernicus

Common Sense
Thomas Paine

Resistance to Civil Government
Henry David Thoreau

Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche

On Liberty
John Stuart Mill

The Social Contract and Discourses
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Two Treatises of Government
John Locke

Magna Carta

The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith

The Koran

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud

The Journals of Columbus
Christopher Columbus

The Travels of Marco Polo
Marco Polo

A Discourse on Method
René Descartes

Bhagavad Gita

Utopia
Sir Thomas More

Tao Te Ching
Lao-Tzu

Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Psychology of the Unconscious
Carl Jung

Ninety-Five Theses
Martin Luther

The General Theory of Employment
John Maynard Keynes

Quotations from Mao Tse-Tung
Mao Tse-Tung

The Torah

The Gospels

The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli

Republic
Plato

The Federalist Papers
Hamilton, Madison & Jay

Elements
Euclid

The Art of War
Sun Tzu

The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank

Walden
Henry David Thoreau

The Dhammapada

Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes

While England Slept
Winston Churchill

The Meditations
Marcus Aurelius

The Genuine Works of Hippocrates

The Spirit of Laws
Charles de Montesquieu

Perestroika
Mikhail Gorbachev

The Double Helix
James D. Watson

First on the Moon
Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin

Politics
Aristotle

The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings
Karl Marx

Milestones in Medicine
Pasteur, Lister, Curie, Harvey

10TTCdevote
Edited: Dec 10, 2009, 11:59 am

THE GREATEST ADVENTURE BOOKS OF ALL TIME (List updated December 2009)

The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Annapurna
Maurice Herzog

Journals of Captain Scott's Last Expedition
Robert Falcon Scott

South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
Ernest Shackleton

Farthest North
Fridtjof Nansen

The Exploration of the Colorado River
John Wesley Powell

First Footsteps in East Africa
Richard F. Burton

Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger

The Journals of the Expedition-2 volumes
Lewis and Clark

West With The Night
Touching The Void

Wind, Sand, and Stars
Beryl Markham

Joe Simpson
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

11TTCdevote
Edited: Dec 10, 2009, 11:59 am

SIGNED MODERN CLASSICS (List updated December 2009)

Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut

A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines

Sophie’s Choice William Styron

Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel

Ironweed William J. Kennedy

Little Big Man Thomas Berger

Burr Gore Vidal

A Book of Common Prayer Joan Didion

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Alan Sillitoe

them Joyce Carol Oates

Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton

Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt

The Boys of Summer Roger Kahn

I, the Jury Mickey Spillane

Shoeless Joe W.P. Kinsella

The Snow Leopard Peter Matthiessen

Seven Years in Tibet Heinrich Harrer

The Best and the Brightest David Halberstam

The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough

Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien

Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri

-------------Limited Supply – may not be available for new subscribers:

Bang the Drum Slowly Mark Harris

Alive Piers Paul Read

Possession A.S. Byatt

Rumpole of the Bailey John Mortimer

Memoires of a Geisha Arthur Golden

----------Upcoming Titles:

The English Patient Michael Ondaatje

Independence Day Richard Ford

A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley

Winter's Tale Mark Helprin

The Ice Storm Rick Moody

The Shipping News Annie Proulx

Empire Falls Richard Russo

The Life of Pi Yann Martel

Soul Mountain Gao Xingjian

White Teeth Zadie Smith

The Corrections Jonathan Franzen

12TTCdevote
Dec 10, 2009, 12:05 pm

MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE FICTION (List updated December 2009)

The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells

To Your Scattered Bodies Go
by Philip Jose Farmer

The Humanoids
by Jack Williamson

2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke

Tau Zero
by Poul Anderson

More Than Human
by Theodore Sturgeon

The Dispossessed
by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick

A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

The Black Cloud
by Fred Hoyle

This Immortal
by Roger Zelazny

A Princess of Mars/At the Earth’s Core
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Einstein Intersection
by Samuel R. Delany

Green Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells

From the Earth to the Moon
by Jules Verne

The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman

The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut

Dune
by Frank Herbert

Odd John
by Olaf Stapledon

Speaker For The Dead
by Orson Scott Card

The Martian Chronicles*
by Ray Bradbury

Way Station
by Clifford Simak

The Snow Queen
by Joan D. Vinge

The Demolished Man
by Alfred Bester

The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham

Neuromancer
by William Gibson

The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells

Timescape
by Gregory Benford

Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury

Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein

Case of Conscience
by James Blish

The Mote in God’s Eye
by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournell

The Gods Themselves
by Isaac Asimov

Lest Darkness Fall
by L. Sprague de Camp

Babel-17
by Samuel Delany

Gateway*
by Frederik Pohl

Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes

She
by H. Rider Haggard

Stand on Zanzibar
by John Brunner

Ringworld
by Larry Niven

Ender’s Game*
by Orson Scott Card

Forever Peace
by Joe Haldeman

1984
by George Orwell

Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dead Zone
by Stephen King

A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess

Brute Orbits
by George Zebrowski

The Diamond Age
by Neal Stephenson

Childhood’s End
by Arthur C. Clarke

Falling Free
by Lois McMaster Bujold

Dandelion Wine
by Ray Bradbury

City
by Clifford Simak

The Healer’s War
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Animal Farm
by George Orwell

The Foundation Trilogy
by Isaac Asimov

Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis

Rendezvous With Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke

Slan
by A.E. van Vogt

Moving Mars
by Greg Bear

Lord of Light
by Roger Zelazny

Dying Inside*
by Robert Silverberg

The Terminal Experiment
by Robert Sawyer

Islands in the Net
by Bruce Sterling

Dragonflight*
by Anne McCaffrey

The Moon and the Sun
by Vonda McIntyre

Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem

Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick

The Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams

*Signed Editions (one hand-signed edition sent after approximately every nine unsigned editions purchased)

13TTCdevote
Dec 10, 2009, 12:09 pm

THE 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN (List updated December 2009)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain

Dracula
Stoker

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Conan Doyle

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson

The Aeneid
Virgil

The Essays
Emerson

Aesop's Fables
Aesop

A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll

Fathers and Sons
Turgenev

The Analects of Confucius
Confucius

Faust
Goethe

Animal Farm
Orwell

The Federalist Papers
Hamilton, et al

Anna Karenina
Tolstoy

Frankenstein
Shelley

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Franklin

Robert Frost - Collected Poems
Frost

Beowulf
Anonymous

Great Expectations
Dickens

Billy Budd
Melville

Grimm's Fairy Tales
Grimm

Brave New World
Huxley

Gulliver's Travels
Swift

The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky

Hamlet
Shakespeare

Robert Browning - Collected Poems
Browning, R.

Heart of Darkness
Conrad

Candide
Voltaire

The History of Early Rome
Livy

The Canterbury Tales
Chaucer

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo

The Cherry Orchard / The Three Sisters
Chekhov

The Iliad
Homer

The Confessions of St. Augustine
St. Augustine

Ivanhoe
Scott

The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas

Jane Eyre
Brontë, C.

Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky

The Jungle Books
Kipling

Cyrano de Bergerac
Rostand

John Keats - Collected Poems
Keats

David Copperfield
Dickens

Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lawrence

The Decameron
Boccaccio

The Last of the Mohicans
Cooper

Emily Dickinson - Collected Poems
Dickinson

Leaves of Grass
Whitman

The Divine Comedy
Dante

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories
Irving

Don Quixote
Cervantes

Les Misérables
Hugo

Little Women
Alcott

Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare

Lord Jim
Conrad

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Khayyam

Madame Bovary
Flaubert

The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare

The Sea Wolf
London

Moby Dick
Melville

She Stoops to Conquer
Goldsmith

The Necklace and Other Tales
Maupassant

Silas Marner
Eliot

The Odyssey
Homer

The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner

Oedipus the King
Sophocles

A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens

Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck

Tales from the Arabian Nights
Burton

On the Origin of Species
Darwin

Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Poe

Paradise Lost
Milton

The Talisman
Scott

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde

Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hardy

The Pilgrim's Progress
Bunyan

The Three Musketeers
Dumas

Politics / The Poetics
Aristotle

The Time Machine
Wells

The Portrait of a Lady
James

Tom Jones
Fielding

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce

Treasure Island
Stevenson

Pride and Prejudice
Austen

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Verne

The Prince
Machiavelli

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Stowe

Pygmalion / Candida
Shaw

Vanity Fair
Thackeray

The Red and the Black
Stendhal

Walden
Thoreau

The Red Badge of Courage
Crane

War and Peace
Tolstoy

The Republic
Plato

The Way of All Flesh
Butler

The Rights of Man
Paine

Wuthering Heights
Brontë, E.

Robinson Crusoe
Defoe

William Butler Yeats – Collected Poems
Yeats

14islandbooks
Dec 10, 2009, 1:15 pm

Better than copying/pasting lists from elsewhere I think we can do this: start a spreadsheet on google docs. In which everyone can add his/her titles and a supervisor sorts all columns. In the end we have a database of EP books....
;-) Martin

15TTCdevote
Dec 10, 2009, 3:41 pm

sounds cool, never heard of it, but if you can set it and give brief info on how to use I'm sure many will happily give them aid at the project

16TheoClarke
Dec 10, 2009, 5:03 pm

Excellent idea.

17sludgetrough
Edited: May 16, 2010, 11:06 pm

Idea implemented! All you need to do is click on the link to git my google docs page. I put some basic titles up on there already, but if you can contribute, we can make this thing really accurate.

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AbQXb8TKQtGiZGc2YmpocnBfMWM0dm40Mm1y&hl=e...

Let me know if you have any trouble viewing/editing the page.

I have tested the Google doc, and it is accessible to anyone who clicks that link. I have given permission for anyone to edit it, so use discretion, but please add any and all info you can including new books, discontinued books, info on alternative covers, rarity, your experiences with the book, type of paper used, etc. If we can actually get a few people in the community editing this all at once, it could become a powerful document on this topic!

18Ealhmund
May 14, 2010, 4:06 am

>17 sludgetrough:
What I get is a "Welcome to CNS" page, which wants me to create an account. I really don't need another account on another website. Is this what was intended by your post?

Os.

19oregonobsessionz
May 14, 2010, 3:02 pm

>17 sludgetrough:

As an alternative, you could put your list in a wiki here. And you could use the Series feature to list the various EP series.

20Ealhmund
Edited: May 14, 2010, 8:30 pm

>19 oregonobsessionz:
Actually, LT specifically discourages using the series feature for a publishers series. It's for a series by an author (or authors) with the intent that the books in the series are related by something other than the publishers plans to sell them as a series.

From "What isn't a series?" in the sidebar here, read "Also avoid publisher series, unless the publisher has a true monopoly over the "works" in question."

The reason for this is that, if you put the Iliad in an Easton Press Wonderful Books series because your copy happens to be from that series, everyone with a copy of the Iliad from any publisher will find that they now have a book in the Easton Press Wonderful Books series. I've found many of my books showing up as part of the Library of America series, when I don't own an LOA edition of the book, simply because someone thought this publisher's entire catalog should be entered as a series.

Sorry. A bit of a tangent, but when I look at the series list in my profile, there's a lot that makes no sense, and it's getting harder all the time to find the real series items.

Os.

211dragones
May 14, 2010, 8:29 pm

17.> Looks like Google kicked in some changes. I used to be able to access Google docs when I was logged in with my Gmail ID. Not so any longer. I disapprove of that type of change, because - like Osbaldistone - I have no need for yet another login. :(

22sludgetrough
May 16, 2010, 10:40 pm

Guys,

I had no idea that google was going to make you log in in order to see that document. I tested it in two different browsers, and it let me in without a login prompt, but it must have been using cached login info from my browser. I will try to correct this issue and post a new link when it's ready. I'm not a spammer, I swear!!!! (I have pictures of EP books to prove it :)

I really love Google docs, it's free, and really easy to use once you get to the document. My friends and I used it last year to plan a camping trip...everyone logged into the shared document and put what days worked for them, what they would bring, etc. I'll get it working and get back to you...

23sludgetrough
Edited: May 16, 2010, 11:07 pm

Ok, I think I figured out what I was doing wrong. Here is the corrected link. This will take you straight to the shared document, with no login required (I also corrected the link in my previous post):

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AbQXb8TKQtGiZGc2YmpocnBfMWM0dm40Mm1y&hl=e...

Since no login is required, that means that ANYONE with that link, can change/edit/delete(!) the entire document if they want, so we're on the honor system here, folks!

Check it out when you get a chance, and see if you think this document is worth maintaining. If ever there was a group who cares enough to chronicle the EP books, it's you guys. Heck, I think we care a lot more about it than EP themselves!

24wailofatail
May 17, 2010, 8:17 pm

That's pretty slick. I wish this had been around twenty years ago. I haven't explored it in great depth yet so perhaps my questions are premature, but ... do the different color fonts mean anything? Would you agree that it would be helpful to alphabetize by title within each series or is there a logical order for your listing? Is there a way to locate comments or use links to add extraneous information about particular books to avoid the list becoming laboriously long difficult to scan quickly?

Just some initial thoughts that I hope don't come off sounding critical. I think what you've started is fantastic.

25sludgetrough
May 17, 2010, 10:35 pm

Well, to answer your question:

The majority of that document was just a cut and paste from a Wikipedia page that alleged to contain a list of all EP books published to date. Wikipedia is not known for its accuracy with such ever-changing things, but I thought it would be a good jumping-off point for our group. The colored items represent links from the original document. If you click on one, and then hit "go to link" it takes you to the Wikipedia page for that book, so you can read all about it.

I thought an editable list would help our group more than a static Wikipedia page, because we could add additional info such as cover designs, going rates, different editions, etc. If you or anyone else thinks that a different layout or table format would be useful, by all means, go ahead and implement it. The books ARE alphabetized by title within each category (or at least, they're supposed to be) If you see an exception, please amend!

Finally, yes, links can easily be added to the document, (from the top menu, just click insert --> link) but they must link to a webpage. As of right now, I'm not sure how to get them to link to another Google doc. But I agree that if everyone types a description for each book, the list will get hard to read. Perhaps we'll cross this bridge when we come to it. Let's first see if anyone is even willing to make amends to this list.

26indigosky
Jul 5, 2010, 11:57 pm

I came across this site with some good lists of some of the collections:

http://www.keithwease.com/easton.htm

27Technogeekus
Jul 14, 2010, 3:50 pm

I just subscribed to the 'Signed Modern Classics' series today and they sent me the list. Thought I'd share it...

Currently in stock:
(450-006) Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
(450-007) A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines
(450-013) Sophie’s Choice William Styron
(450-018) Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
(450-019) Ironweed William J. Kennedy
(450-020) Little Big Man Thomas Berger
(450-025) Burr Gore Vidal
(450-031) A Book of Common Prayer Joan Didion
(450-038) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Alan Sillitoe
(450-040) them Joyce Carol Oates
(450-042) Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton
(450-044) Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt
(450-046) The Boys of Summer Roger Kahn
(450-048) I, the Jury Mickey Spillane
(450-049) Shoeless Joe W.P. Kinsella
(450-056) The Snow Leopard Peter Matthiessen
(450-057) Seven Years in Tibet Heinrich Harrer
(450-059) The Best and the Brightest David Halberstam
(450-060) The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough
(450-065) Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien
(450-066) Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
Limited Supply – may not be available for new subscribers:
(450-045) Bang the Drum Slowly Mark Harris
(450-051) Alive Piers Paul Read
(450-053) Possession A.S. Byatt
(450-055) Rumpole of the Bailey John Mortimer
(450-058) Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden

Upcoming Titles:
(450-009) The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
(450-062) Independence Day Richard Ford
(450-063) A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley
(450-064) Winter's Tale Mark Helprin
(450-067) The Ice Storm Rick Moody
(450-068) The Shipping News Annie Proulx
(450-069) Empire Falls Richard Russo
(450-070) The Life of Pi Yann Martel
(450-071) Soul Mountain Gao Xingjian
(450-072) White Teeth Zadie Smith
(450-073) The Corrections Jonathan Franzen

28SilentInAWay
Edited: Jul 14, 2010, 8:23 pm

I received the exact same list when I first subscribed to this series in 2007. At the time, the list was dated June of 2006. A year later I was sent the "updated" list dated April 2008 -- it was the exact same list as the 2006 list -- the same list that you've posted here! Although I'm sure that a good number of titles in this list are still available, I know that there are a number that are not. There are also a good number of titles that have been published in the last few years that do not appear in this list.

All of the books listed as "Limited Supply" are no longer available -- except on ebay, if you fell like paying the premium.

All of the books listed as "Upcoming Titles" have been sent out years ago (although they may still be available).

There are a good number of new titles not included on this list (I'll check mine when I get home and post a list). I believe that the most recent two that I've received are High Fidelity by Nick Hornby and The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai's Booker Prize-winning novel.

Of the books listed as "Currently in Stock," I'm sure that many are no longer available (Going After Cacciato & Interpreter of Maladies, for sure--but others as well). Different numbers of signed copies are available for each book published in this series, and the books can be purchased separately (although they are not marketed as individual titles nearly as often as are the Signed First Editions). So some titles run out before others. In nearly all cases, once the stock is depleted, the book is never reprinted -- although there may be exceptions to this rule. Some of the authors have passed away--books by these authors can be bought a premium on ebay (actually, most books in this series are overpriced on ebay--the value of the author's signature, I suppose).

I currently own all of the books that are currently available in this series (I tried to partially avoid the "stock depletion" issue by receiving two books each month!).

I mention all this because this is one series for which I would recommend ignoring "The List" -- it is egregiously out-of-date and for new subscribers might result in numerous disappointments. Heck, I was disappointed that every one of the "Limited Supply" books were already out of stock three years ago!!

On the other hand, one use of the list might be to identify which books to request be delivered first -- since any book might disappear at any moment, you may wish to call EP and ask that certain titles be delivered first (they're usually pretty good about that sort of thing).

If you choose to ignore the list, however, you will not be disappointed -- Easton Press does a pretty good job selecting the titles for this series and, although we can all come up with titles we'd like to see included, I am sure that author negotiations are no simple matter.

Sorry to be the bearer of (possibly) bad tidings -- but better forewarned, no?

ETA: Spelling correction

29SilentInAWay
Jul 14, 2010, 5:48 pm

I forgot to mention in my above post that there are two lists of the books in this series on ebay (here and here) -- both include the earliest (and now unavailble) titles and neither has been updated to include the latest releases.

30Technogeekus
Jul 14, 2010, 8:16 pm

Thanks a lot for your post.
I will take your advice and ignore the list. Although I am a little sad for "the interpreter of maladies".
Was kind of looking forward to that. But in case I receive something I don't want, I can always return.

31SilentInAWay
Jul 15, 2010, 11:01 am

Here are the recent additions to the 'Signed Modern Classics' series (listed alphabetically, since I don't remember the exact order that I've received them):

The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce
Cover Her Face by P.D. James
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The World's Religions by Huston Smith

Although I have no specific details on the availability of these titles, I assume that, being more recent additions to the series, they will be included in all current subscriptions.

(Note: I have not yet added the two most recent titles--Fidelity and Inheritance--to my catalog in LT. I will add the links to this posting after I have done so.)

32bumblesby
Edited: Aug 4, 2010, 8:42 pm

BUMP

Going to add Non-Fiction Classics since I have the brochure right in front of me.

Non-Fiction Classics 08/2010 US$49.75

Hiroshima - John Hersey 1850-007
The Virtue of Selfishness - Ayn Rand 1850-008
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson 1850-002
The I Ching 1850-003
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell - 1850-004
The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce 1850-005
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus 1850-009
The Story of My Life - Helen Keller - 1850-001
Profiles In Courage - John F. Kennedy 1850-006
The Art of Living - Epictetus 1850-010

Note: Added to Google doc list in >23 sludgetrough:

33SilentInAWay
Aug 4, 2010, 9:24 pm

Books in all of the Reader's Choice sets have been listed in this thread.

34rschoeneberg
Oct 29, 2018, 12:12 pm

Sludgetrough, I updated the Library of Military History (LoMH) section of your shared document by correcting some of the book names and adding authors for the entire list to avoid confusion.

I've been receiving this collection from Easton Press for decades, so I own most of the novels. For those I don't own, I searched online to confirm that Easton Press at least published them, although this doesn't necessarily mean that they were published as part of the LoMH.

There are 3 books at the end of the list that I was unable to confirm have been published by Easton Press, much less as part of the LoMH:
The Generals by Winston Groom
Strange Defeat by Marc Bloch
Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard

I do not claim to be the foremost expert on this series. In fact, I don't think anyone can make this claim since to my knowledge, Easton Press has not ever shared their records. So, I welcome anyone who's interested in the Library of Military History collection to edit my changes to the shared document.

35SF-72
Jul 23, 2021, 1:50 pm

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but since Bujold is mentioned here: Could anyone tell me the size of the Bujold titles by Easton Press?

36Frank_Zwolinski
Jul 23, 2021, 6:26 pm

>4 bumblesby: I think they are just unwilling to make that information public.

37ramz733
Jul 9, 2023, 3:21 pm

Does anyone have the Easton Press 100 Greatest in a spreadsheet that would be importable into LT? I'm new and cannot figure out how to import the whole series other than one-by-one which is way too tedious. I can see the list in series on LT, but it's usually the wrong edition, and the ADD button won't work from the list directly. Thanks in advance for your reply.

38sdawson
Jul 21, 2023, 8:39 am

welcome ramz. someone must have, hoping they respond

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