Julie's Choices
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Hi all here are my choices for this contest. I have six completed to date. Blog is here to read
Classics
1 – Catch 22- Joseph Heller
2 – Great Gatsby – Scott. F. Fitzgerald
3 – Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
4 - Girl with a Pearl Earning- Tracey Chevaller
5 – Great Expectations – Charles Dickons
6 – The Waves – Virginia Woolf
7 – Utopia – Sir Thomas Moore
8 – Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut
19th Century Women Writers1 - Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
2 - Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
3 - Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
4 - Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
5 – Manesfield Park – Jane Austen
6 – The Yellow Wallpaper and other writings – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
7 - Final Harvest –Emily Dickenson
8 – The Awakening – Kate Chopin
European Authors1 - Anybody Out There Marian Keyes
2 – Always and Forever – Cathy Kelley3 – Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
4 –Louise de la Valliere – Alexander Dumas5- Watermelon - Marian Keyes
6- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson7-The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
8- Emma- Jane Austen
Historical Fiction
1 – Thread of Grace – Mary Doria Russell
2 – Captian Corelli’s Mandolin – Loius de Bernieres
3 – The Book Thief4 - The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory 5 – Pillars of the Earth
6 – Outlander – Diana Gabaldon7 – Ship Fever – Andrea Barrett (Overlap with Short Stories)
8- Shadow Patriots: A Novel of the Revolution – Lucia St. Clair Robinson
Authors with the first/last name beginning with the letter J
1 - Shades of Grey – Jessica James
2 – Catcher in the Rye J.D Salinger
3 – The Wheel of Time: Crown of Swords Robert Jordan
4 – Ulyssess – James Joyce
5 – Comfort Food – Kate Jacobs
6 – Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult
7 – Children of Men – P.D James
8 - The Children of Hurin – J.R.R Tolkien
Fantasy
1 - Elemental Magic- Shannon Shin
2 – The Outstretched Shadow- Mercedes Lackey
3 – Elvenborn –Andre Norton
4 – Mistborn –Brandon Sanderson
5 – Wizards First Rule –Terry Goodkind
6 – Chronicles of Narnia – C.S Lewis
7 – The Wishsong of Shannara – Terry Brooks
8 – Interview with a Vampire – Anne Rice
Short Stories/Novella Collections1 – Runaway – Alice Munro2 - Winter Moon – Mercedes Lackey3 – Sunday Night Book Club4 –Moons of Jupiter
5 – Collected Ghost Stories6 – Dubliners – James Joyce
7 –Further Under the Duvet - Marian Keyes8- Ship Fever Overlap with Historical Fiction)
Revisiting the Past (Re-Reads)1 – Harry Potter 1 & Harry Potter 22 – Harry Potter 3 & Harry Potter 4
3 – Harry Potter 5 & 6
4 – Harry Potter 7
5 – The Hobbit
6 –LOTR – The Fellowship of the Ring
7 – LOTR – Two Towers
8 – LOTR – Return of the King
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Labels: 19th Century Women Writers, Classics, European Writers, Fantasy, Historical fiction, Letter J for first/las name, re-reads, short story collections