Vasilly's Picks
Monday, January 14, 2008
I love this challenge already. It was pretty fun trying to figure out my categories and lists.
Banned Books
Are you there, God? It's me Margaret - Judy Blume
The Lorax - Dr. Seuss
Brokeback Mountain- Annie Proulx
Tommyknocker- Stephen King
Balzac & the Little Chiness Seamstress
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
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Classics
Waiting for Godot-Samuel beckett
Anything by James Joyce
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Adventures of sherlock Holmes
Walden -Henry David Thoreau
Love and living - John Merton
The Sea, the Sea - Iris Murdoch
The Big Sleep- Raymond Chandler
It was a dark and stormy night: Creepy tales
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
Falling Angel - William Hjortsberg
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Without Blood- Alessandro Barrico
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
Dracula - Barm Stoker
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Books I can escape to
The Devil in the Blue Dress - Walter Mosley
Gone, Baby, Gone - Denis Lehane
Rare Encounters with ordinary birds- Lyanda Lynn Haupt
All the pretty horses - Cormac McCarthy
Living to tell - Antonya Nelson
What she saw in... - Lucinda Rosenfeld
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Size doesn't matter: Novellas, short stories, and poetry
A Blind man can see how much I love you - Amy Bloom
The braid - Stanley Junitz
Collected Poems - Howard Numerov
A good man is hard to find - Flannery O' Connor
The flash of lightning behind the mountain - Charles Bukowski
Breathing Underwater- Julie Orringer
I am no one you know - Joyce Carol Oates
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Translations/ International Fiction
Out Stealing Horses - Per Patterson
The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
The Seventh Wall - Fred Wander
The Voyage of the short serpent - Bernard du Boucheron
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Everything but the Kitchen Sink: Books I just feel like reading
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Julia's Chocolate - Cathy Lamb
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