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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 Writers

1 - 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 Authors

1 - Anybody Out There Marian Keyes
2 – Always and Forever – Cathy Kelley
3 – Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
4 –Louise de la Valliere – Alexander Dumas
5- Watermelon - Marian Keyes
6- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
7-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 Thief
4 - The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
5 – Pillars of the Earth
6 – Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
7 – 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 Collections

1 – Runaway – Alice Munro
2 - Winter Moon – Mercedes Lackey
3 – Sunday Night Book Club
4 –Moons of Jupiter
5 – Collected Ghost Stories
6 – Dubliners – James Joyce
7 –Further Under the Duvet - Marian Keyes
8- Ship Fever Overlap with Historical Fiction)

Revisiting the Past (Re-Reads)

1 – Harry Potter 1 & Harry Potter 2
2 – 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

Posted by Jules at 8/12/2008 10:16:00 PM 0 comments  

Labels: 19th Century Women Writers, Classics, European Writers, Fantasy, Historical fiction, Letter J for first/las name, re-reads, short story collections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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