Wishlist list

To commemorate a somewhat unfortunate occasion--namely, my Amazon wishlist topping the 1K mark.  (For the record, to reassure those experiencing a sudden spasm of anxiety about my checkbook: I use the wishlist to keep track of books that might come in handy someday, not necessarily books I intend to buy in the immediate or even distant future.  Sorry, Amazon.)

• Most expensive book: Romanticism and Politics, 1789-1832 ($1070).  I'm guessing that this is a multivolume set.
• Cheapest book: John Banville, The Newton Letter ($9.31 after discount). 
  
• Books available used for .01: Amanda Prantera, Letter to Lorenzo;  Jennifer Egan, The Invisible Circus: A Novel; Penelope Lively, Heat Wave: A Novel; Elizabeth Cook, Achilles: A Novel.
  
• Most consistently expensive university press: Oxford.
• Books that I really wish somebody would send me to review: Patrick R. O'Malley, Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture;  Maureen Moran, Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature; Nadia Valman, The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture (change of religious pace there).    
• Books that I might actually use in a classroom at some point: Thomas J. Collins, Anthology of Victorian Prose; Mark Knight and Emma Mason, Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction.   
• Potentially oddest novel: Julia Ward Howe, The Hermaphrodite. (I mean--Julia Ward Howe?!)
• Novel with strangest title: Richard Marsh, The Joss: A Reversion.
• Contemporary novel I'm most looking forward to reading: Jim Crace, The Pesthouse. 
• Only graphic novel on the list: Will Eisner, Fagin the Jew. 
• Books out of my field that I'd love to read: John N. King, Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture; Andrew Lacey, The Cult of King Charles the Martyr; Brian McFarlane, Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation;  Helen L. Parish, Monks, Miracles and Magic: Reformation Representations of the Medieval Church; Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi; David Cressy, Bonfires & Bells.    
• Books in my field that I really should read ASAP (er, of many): K. D. M. Snell and Paul S. Ell, Rival Jerusalems: The Geography of Victorian Religion; Michaela Giebelhausen, Painting the Bible: Representation And Belief in Mid-victorian Britain; Billie Melman, The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953; Graham Law, Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press. 
  
• Number of books that I've read, but keep on the list to remind myself that I should look at them again (or buy them) at some point: 25
  
• Book I heard the authors discuss while the manuscript was still gestating: Miles Taylor, Ernest Jones, Chartism, and the Romance of Politics 1819-1869 (during a Nineteenth-Century Workshop meeting at the University of Chicago).
• Books with least illuminating Amazon reviews: William J. Astore, Observing God: Thomas Dick, Evangelicalism, and Popular Science in Victorian Britain and America ("An irreverant excuse for a publication that assumes WAY too much and poorly connects the elements of science, art and religion that would leave the spirit of Thomas Dick himself mourning in his grave"); Jeff Nunokawa, Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire ("Indeed, discipline appears to be the missing concept in Nunokawa's self-impressed, accordion-like unfolding of a screen that has precious little substance after one gets past the fanfare of the author's delight at his own meditations"); Peter White, Thomas Huxley: Making the 'Man of Science' ("This book is less of a pleasure read as it is an academic History of Science read").
• Book in which (apparently) I'm in the acknowledgments: Norman W. Jones, Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction: Sexual Mystery and Post-Secular Narrative (so Professor Jones tells me). 
• Books written by people with whom I went to graduate school: Janine Barchas, Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel; Wolfram Schmidgen, Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property.   
• Book written by another member of the Victorian Studies Reading Group of Upstate New York: Daniel Hack, Material Interests of the Victorian Novel.