VAST NARRATIVE (SERIES) [Read at least one “entry”]“Cthulu” Mythos series (Lovecraft) “Dr. Dolittle” series (Lofting)“Gor” series (Norman)“Hardy Boys” series (Dixon)“Jack Ryan” series (Clancey)“Nancy Drew” series (Keene)“Nero Wolfe” series (Stout)“Wizard of Oz” series (Baum)“Yoknapatawpha County” series (Faulkner)2001 / 2010 / 3001 (Clarke) American Letters (Grossman)Byzantium / “Celtic Crusades” Series or other (Lawhead)Dance to the Music of Time cycle (Powell)Dune series (Herbert)Finnegans Wake (Joyce)“Fantômas” series (Souvestre)Game of Thrones / “Song of Fire and Ice” series (Martin)Harry Potter series (Rowling) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)Martian Chronicles (Bradbury)Pilgrimage (Richardson) Princess of Mars or Tarzan series (Burroughs)Pulp Series“Star Wars”/”Star Trek”/ ”WoW”/ etc. novel (any) Remembrance of Things Past (Proust)Wheel of Time (Jordan)Wicked series (Maguire)DEPTH OF CONTEXT NOVEL [Also research the context:]Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff (Moore)33 A.D. (McAfee)Call of the Wild (London)Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)Hobbit / Lord of the Rings or other (Tolkien)Joseph and His Brothers (Mann)Ulysses (Joyce)Princess Bride (Goldman)Bleeding Through – Layers of L.A. (Klein)EPISODIC / COLLECTIVE / EPIC [Any collection such as: ]Thousand and One (Arabian) Nights (Burton Recommended)The Oddessy (Homer) Beowulf (Heaney Translation) Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Raspe)Alice in Wonderland (Carroll) Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan)Haunted or other title (Palahniuk)SPECIAL REQUESTS CAN BE CONSIDERED

MULTI-LINEAR (CYOA)

[Reread and “track” 5-7 times]Big Night Out (Freeney)Meanwhile: Pick Any Path (Shiga)Whatever You Want (Timms) “The Adventures of You” series

Sugarcane Island “Choose Your own Adventure”

(any)“Date With Destiny” Adventures:

Escape from fire IslandNight of a Thousand Boyfriends

“Do-Over” Novels: (McElhatton)Pretty Little Mistakes Million Little Mistakes

“Just Make a Choice” Series (Powers)You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero! Terrible, Horrible, Temp-to-Perm Debacle

“Miss Adventure” Series (Zuckerman)Tangle in TijuanaBeauty Queen Blowout

“Which Way Books” (any) “Lone Wolf” Series (Dever)

ERGODIC (NON-LINEAR)[“Track” your process]“The Night of January 16th” (Rand) Ava: A Novel (Maso)Cathy’s Book (Stewart) Dictionary of the Khazars (Pavic) House of Leaves (Danielewski)Landscape Painted with Tea (Pavic)Last Love in Constantinople (Pavic)The Master’s Lonesome Wife (Gass)Naked Lunch (Burroughs)Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut) The Unfortunates (Johnson) This Book Does Not Exist (Schneider)Trainspotting (Welsh)Tristam Shandy, Gentleman (Sterne)

INTERACTIVE STORY[Complete 1-2 times]“Heavy Rain” (PS3) “Indigo Prophecy” (PS2) “Twelve Blue” (Joyce)

“The Stanley Parable”(http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-stanley-parable)Hypertext:

eastgate.com/catalog/fiction.html(any)

eastgate.com/catalog/nonfiction.html(any)

Interactive Fiction (Genre) (http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/gallery/)“Colossal Cave Adventure” (Crowther/Woods)“Fine-Tuned” (Dionysus Porcupine)“Galatea” (Short)Infocom IF (http://www.infocom-if.org/games/games.html)“Metamorphoses” (Short)“Slouching Towards Bedlam” (Foster/Ravipinto)

“Zork” (http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html)

HEAVY NARRATIVE VIDEO GAMES [Complete 20+ hours or finish]“Alan Wake” (360)“Bastion” (PC/PSN/XBL)“Beyond Good and Evil (PC/Xbox)“Bioshock I” (PS3/360) “The DIG” (PC) “Dragon Age” (PS3/360)“Fallout 2 / F.N.V.” (PC)“ICO” (PS2/PS3) “Jurassic Park: The Game” (PSN/XBL/PC) “LA Noir” (PS3/Xbox/PC)“The Longest Journey (PC) “Mass Effect I or II” (360)“Planescape: Torment” (PC) (or other D&D game)“PoP: Sands of Time“ (PS2/Xbox)“Portal” (PC/PS3/360) “Red Dead Redemption” (PS3)“Shadow of the Colossus” (PS2) “Silent Hill 2” (Xbox/PS2/PC)“Star Wars: KotOR I/II” (PC/Xbox) “Tales of Monkey Island (PC/PSN) “Back to the Future: The Game” (PC/PSN/ipad) “TES V: SKYRIM” (PC/PS3/360)“Star Wars: TOR” (PC)

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