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• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
• Millennium People by JG Ballard
• The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
• Darkmans by Nicola Barker
• Vathek by William Beckford
• Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite
• Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess
• Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
• The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
• The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Man who was Thursday by GK Chesterton
• Hello Summer, Goodbye by Michael G Coney
• Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
• House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
• Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq
• Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
• Under the Skin by Michel Faber
• The Magus by John Fowles
• Red Shift by Alan Garner
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
• Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
• The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• The Children of Men by PD James
• After London; or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• The Shining by Stephen King
• The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski
• Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
• The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
• The Monk by Matthew Lewis
• Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
• Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
• The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
• Ascent by Jed Mercurio
• Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
• Mother London by Michael Moorcock
• News from Nowhere by William Morris
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
• The Famished Road by Ben Okri
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
• Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
• A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
• Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
• The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
• Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Blindness by Jose Saramago
• How the Dead Live by Will Self
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Insult by Rupert Thomson
• The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
• Institute Benjamenta by Robert Walser
• Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Affinity by Sarah Waters
• The Sword in the Stone by TH White
• The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson

I've looked this one over and you're right - there does not seem to be any ambiguity.  Straight up fantasy.  That's the good news.

The bad news is that there are 99 books in that award list that we don't have in our database.   Oy!  I guess I better get started...  This is going to take some time.

Currently we're trying to add the Guardian list and a MilSF list that I've been plugging away at for months.  The MilSF list is closest to being done so I'll probably shift to that one to wrap it up.  jynnantonnyx is helping with the Guardian list so we should have them both up in the next month or so.

Rhondak101 - 2011-06-13 7:21 PM Now you are making me feel guilty My wishes don't have deadlines. rhonda

Ha ha!  It's a great list but I admit I was hoping for a little more overlap

Emil - 2011-06-14 8:29 AM If there is 99 books "short", how many are actually in WWEnd

There are 190 books on the list so we have 91 already- just under half.  Not too bad really.

Emil - 2011-06-14 1:18 PM Oh. I meant, how many books are there in the WWEnd database in total? I'm just calculating that amount of books, plus the potential additional 99, divided by my age and multiplied by the number of years left until ... well ... I vacate this reality to see if it's humanly possible to ever catch up

Ah!  Right now there are 3,020.  Bit of a milestone getting past 3k.  You may find it difficult to read them all but I know you'll give it your best shot!  Just keep reading, just keep reading....

@htaccess:  We're getting close to done with the Guardian list now.  I've got all the images done and jynnantonnyx is pluggin' away at the data.   It'll be interesting to see how the NPR list compares to Guardian's.  I'm sure we'll be adding that one to the site too.  Mythopoetic should be a great addition to the site.

@valashain:  Sidewise looks interesting though it's a short list.  Some years didn't see much alt-hist books being published it seems.  Kinda strange to have a winner but no other nominees for three of those years...

Boo-yah!  All done and looking schweet.  Many thanks to jynnantonnyx for helping me get all these books added to the database.  Take a gander and let us know what you think.  There is quite a bit of variety in this one which is exciting.  jynnantonnyx will be posting to the blog about the list shortly.  Enjoy!

  Yeah, we've got a slight data issue that should be fixed shortly.  One of the data fields is not long enough or some such so it's hanging up.  Stand by.