Krista W.'s list
Monday, December 24, 2007
Hi, everyone! I'm Krista W., I try to read 50 books a year, and here's my list for 2008:
Edit: Krista L. is smarter than me and had the bright idea to use her last initial. Just to keep things clear, I, too, will use my last initial. So that makes me Krista W.
Banned Books:
1. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
2. Lolita, Vladmir Nabokov
3. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kessy
6. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
7. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
8. Sophie's Choice, William Styron
Books By British & South African Authors
1. July's People, Nadine Gordimer
2. Age of Iron, J.m Coetzee
3. Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful, Alan Paton
4. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
5. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
6. Animal Farm, George Orwell
7. Children of Men, P.D. James
8. Atonement, Ian McEwan
Books I've Started But Not Finished:
1. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
2. Jazz, Toni Morrison
3. Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
4. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
5. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
6. Flowers in the Attic, V.C. Andrews
7. To The Lighthouse, Virgina Woolf
8. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Oprah's Book Club Books:
1. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. Middlesex, Jeffery Eugenides
3. A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
4. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
5. The Pilot's Wife, Anita Shreve
6. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
7. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
8. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Non-Fiction Books:
1. Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
2. Marley & Me, John Grogan
3. Mystery & Manners, Flannery O'Connor
4. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Ishmael Beah
5. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
6. Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom
7. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan
8. How To Read Literature Like A Professor, Thomas Foster
Banned Young Adult Books:
1. We All Fall Down, Robert Cormier
2. Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson
3. My Brother Sam is Dead, James Lincoln Collier
4. Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
5. How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell
6. James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
7. Killing Mr. Griffin, Lois Duncan
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Books By My Favorite Authors:
1. Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
2. Where Are You Now?, Mary Higgins Clark
3. Small Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver
4. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
5. Mercy, Jodi Picoult
6. Jessica, Bryce Courtenay
7. Drop City, T.C. Boyle
8. Jo's Boys, Lousia May Alcott
Books From My Mom's Bookshelf:
1. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence [overlap]
2. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner [overlap]
3. How To Read Literature Like A Professor, Thomas Foster [overlap]
4. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Ishmael Beah [overlap]
5. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin [overlap]
6. East of Eden, John Steinbeck [overlap]
7. TBD
8. TBD
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12/24/2007 12:22:00 PM
