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3M's List
Monday, March 31, 2008

I decided NOT to have any overlaps.

8 Award Winners

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (Whitbread)
2. Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee (Booker)
3. The Gathering by Enright (Booker)
4. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Nobel)
5. American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Pulitzer)
6. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (Booker)
7. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz (Newbery)
8. Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Kertesz (Nobel)

8 New-to-me authors

1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
2. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
4. Anthem by Ayn Rand
5. Transformations by Anne Sexton
6. The Only Road North by Erik Mirandette
7. Maus I by Art Spiegelman

8 ZUQX (Hard to find letters of the alphabet)

1. I Am the Messenger by Zusak
2. Zenzele by ?
3. Unless by Carol Shields
4. Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife by Sigrid Undset
5. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
6. Blessings by Anna Quindlen
7. X Stands for Unknown by Asimov
8. Sky Burial by Xinran

8 diferent languages in translation

1. Independent People by Halldor Laxness (Icelandic)
2. Solaris by Lem (Polish)
3. Sophie’s World by Jostein Gardner (Norwegian)
4. Silence by Shusaku Endo (Japanese)
5. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino (Italian)
6. The Castle by Franz Kafka (German)
7. Lolita (Russian)
8. Embers by Sandor Marai (Hungarian)

8 different countries (Around the World)

1. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (Mexico)
2. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene (Cuba)
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini (Afghanistan)
4. Things Fall Apart by Achebe (Nigeria)
5. The Translator by Daoud Hari (Sudan)
6. Strangers by Taichi Yamada (Japan)
7. -

8 different Canadian authors

1. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
2. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
3. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
4. The Collected Stories of Carol Shields
5. Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson
6. The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy
7. Kanada by Eva Wiseman
8. Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson

8 newly published in 2008

1. The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
2. Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
3. Winter Haven by Athol Dickson
4. Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
5. The Sister by Poppy Adams
   
6. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
7. -
8. -
   

8 Fantasy

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
8. -

This way when a challenge comes up, I'll be able to see if it fits with what I'm already planning on reading. Obsessive, I know. :-)

Posted by 1morechapter at 3/31/2008 08:43:00 AM 5 comments  

Labels: 1800s, 3M, Around the World, Award Winners, Canadian authors, Fantasy, In Translation, Published in 2008, ZUQX

Sandra's choice
Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Hi here's my list finally... =)

The Sherlock Holmes Series (9 books as I want to complete my series)

1. A Study In Scarlet
2. The Signs of Four
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
4. The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
5. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
6. The Hound of the Baskervilles
7. The Valley of Fear
8. The Last Bow
9. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

2000s

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
2. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
3. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
4. TBC
5. TBC
6. TBC
   
7. TBC
   
8. TBC

1900s

1. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
2. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
3. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
4. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
5. Animal Farm – George Orwell
6. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
7. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
8. TBC

1800s and before

1. Dracula – Bram Stoker
2. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
3. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
5. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
6. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
7. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
8. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

19th Century Women Writers

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
3. Persuasion – Jane Austen
4. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
   
5. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
   
6. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
   
7. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
   
8. The Awakening – Kate Chopin

From the Movies

1. Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring) - J.R.R. Tolkien
   
2. Lord of the Ring (The Two Towers) - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Lord of the Ring (The Return of the King) - J.R.R. Tolkien
4. P.S I Love You - Cecilia Ahern
5. Stardust - Neil Gaiman
   
6. TBC
7. TBC
8. TBC

Chick Lit

1. Everyone Worth Knowing - Lauren Weisberger
   
2. The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
   
3. Shopaholic Abroad - Sophie Kinsella
4. Shopaholic Ties the Knot - Sophie Kinsella
5. Shopaholic & Sister - Sophie Kinsella
6. Shopaholic & Baby - Sophie Kinsella
7. TBC
8. TBC

Non-Fiction

1. The World Is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
   
2. The Age of Turbulence - Alan Greenspan
3. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
4. TBC
5. TBC
6. TBC
7. TBC
8. TBC

Posted by Anonymous at 2/06/2008 12:53:00 PM 1 comments  

Labels: 1800s, 1900s, 19th Century Women Writers, 2000s, Chick-lit, Movies, Non-fiction, Sherlock Holmes