~nsr~ Challenge List!

Hi! It's my first year joining this challenge. Here's my list! I hope I won't make any more changes.

Historical Fiction
The Blood of Flowers Anita Amirrezvani
March Geraldine Brooks
A Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks
Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini*
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini*
The Book Thief Marcus Zusak
Fingersmith Sarah Waters

Alternatives:
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
A Great and Terrible Beauty Libba Bray

Children's books
Anne of Green Gables, Montgomery
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Matilda, Roald Dahl
The Enchanted Castle, E Nesbit
The Borrowers, Mary Norton

Alternative:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis

Books about books
The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly
Sixpence House, Paul Collins
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
Booked to Die, John Dunning*
The Ghost Writer, John Harwood
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Lewis Buzbee

Alternatives:
84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hauff
Bookseller of Kabul
Reading Lolita in Tehran

1st in a Series
Aunt Dimity's Death, Nancy Atherton
The Neon Rain, James Lee Burke
The Bone Collector, Jeffrey Deaver
Booked to Die, John Dunning*
A is for Alibi, Sue Grafton
Knots & Crosses, Ian Rankin
Along Came a Spider, James Patterson
Various Haunts of Men, Susan Hill

19th Century Women Writers
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
Lucy Gayheart, Willa Cather
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen*
Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell

Alternatives:
Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen
North & South, Elizabeth Gaskell

Speculative fiction
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Waterland by Graham Swift
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Ben Okri The Famished Road
Haruki Murakami End of the World
Isabel Allende House of Spirits

TBR Books
Waterland Graham Swift
Brief History of The Dead Kevin Brockmeier
Mansfield Park Jane Austen*
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini*
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini*
The Pilgrimage Paulo Coelho
Seduction of Water Carol Goodman
The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield

Alternatives:
Surfacing Margaret Atwood
London Bridges James Patterson
Innocent Man John Grisham

Margaret Atwood
Surfacing
Handmaid's Tale
Penelopiad
The Tent
Oryx & Crake
Alias Grace
Blind Assassin
Cat's Eye

Alternative:
Wilderness Tips

Posted by ~nsr~ at 12/13/2007 07:50:00 AM

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