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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

Krista L.'s Challenge List
Sunday, December 23, 2007

Edit: I will use Krista L, in order to differentiate from the other Krista.

I will continue to edit this to add links and mark the ones I own. There are no overlaps :)

1. Social Sciences/Social Commentary
1. Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain - Elio Frattaroli, MD **
2. Love you to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising A Child with Special Needs - Suzanne Kamata @@
3. Children's Mental Health: Creating Systems of Care in a Changing Society (Systems of Care for Children's Mental Health) - Beth A. Stroul (Editor) @@
4. Bipolar Kids: Helping Your Child Find Calm in the Mood Storm - Rosalie Greenberg
5. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage - Kathryn Edin & Maria Kefalas
6. Killer Woman Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Gender and Power - Benjamin DeMott &&
7. The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) - Rachel Maines &&
8. How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok - Glenn Greenwald ++

2. Nebula winning authors
1. Dune - Frank Herbert &&
2. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
3. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
4. Ringworld - Larry Niven
5. The Healer's War - Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
6. The Speed of Dark - Elizabeth Moon
7. The Quantum Rose - Catherine Asaro
8. Parable of the Talents - Octavia Butler

3. Hugo winning authors
1. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
2. Trillion Year Spree- Brian Aldiss
3. Downbelow Station - CJ Cherryh
4. Foundation's Edge- Isaac Asimov
5. Doomsday Book- Connie Willis
6. Paladin of Souls - Lois McMaster Bujold
7. The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke
8. Gateway - Frederick Pohl

4. Non-Fiction
1. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and Human Spirit - Al Gore
2. The Assault on Reason - Al Gore
3. Sex in America - Edward Laumann
4. Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Health and Exercise - Gina Kolata
5. He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know - Jessica Valenti
6. Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty
7. Lonely Planet Road Trip California Highway 1 - Paige Penland
8. Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes And The Myth Of The Slut - Emily White

5. Biography/Memoir
1. Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America And American in Iran - Azadeh Moaveni
2. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
3. Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby? (True Adventures in Cult Fandom) - Allyson Beatrice
4. Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez - Richard Rodriguez
5. The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker - Eric Liu
6. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
7. The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Elizabeth Gaskell and Angus Easson
8. From Rage To Reason: My Life In Two Americas - Janet Langhart Cohen

6. Pre-1900 Literature
1. Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
2. The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
3. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
4. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
5. Middlemarch - George Eliot
6. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
7. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
8. Sybil - Benjamin Disraeli

7. Chick Lit
1. Queen of Babble - Meg Cabot
2. How I Fell in Love with a Librarian and Lived to Tell about it - Rhett Ellis
3. Remember Me? - Sophie Kinsella
4. Learning Curves: A Novel of Sex, Suits, and Secret Affairs - Gemma Townley
5. The Waitress - Melissa Nathan
6. Queen of Babble in the Big City - Meg Cabot
7. There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble -Laurie Notaro
8. We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle - Celia Rivenbark

8. Religion/Spirituality
1. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't - Stephen Prothero
2. Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places - Peter Nabokov
3. Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris
4. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
5. Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence - Greg Cajete & Leroy Little Bear
6. To Re-Enchant the World: A Philosophy of Unitarian Universalism - Richard Grigg
7. Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning - Scotty McLennan
8. Irish Wedding Traditions: Using Your Irish Heritage to Create the Perfect Wedding

**I own
++ I can borrow from someone
@@ I really want to own
&& Library Time

Posted by Krista Long at 12/23/2007 09:16:00 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Award Winners, biography/memoir, Chick-lit, Hugo, Krista, Nebula, Non-fiction, Pre-1900, Religion, Social Sciences

MLOKnitting 888 Books
Sunday, February 25, 2007

In January I had surgery, I had a lot of time for lighter fiction. Also, our local comic book store had a 50% off sale so I got a ton of comic books - as did my husband - which I did get through while recuperating. So, I ended up adding a lot of those (some, very, very good) to the YA/Children's Lit group.

I downloaded all of John Fox Jr.'s books onto my Palm and am attempting to read them as ebooks. If I can get used to that, there will be even more places I can read unobtrusively!

I. Books by Virginian, John Fox, Jr.
1. A Cumberland Vendetta and Other Stories (1895)
2. Hell-fer-Sartain and Other Stories (1897)
3. The Kentuckians (1898)
4. A Mountain Europa (serialized 1892, published 1899)
5. Crittenden (1900)
6. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903)
7. A Knight of the Cumberland (1906)
8. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908)

II. Non-Fiction - Science and Medicine (Including Bios)
1. Death by Black Hole
2. Stiff
3. The Story of Corn by Betty Fussell
4. Our Inner Ape
5. The Sociopath Next Door
6. The Great Influenza
7.
8.

III. Paranormal Stories (Including Paranormal Romance)
1. The Accidental Vampire
2. Howl at the Moon
3. Touch the Dark
4. Iron Kissed
5. Doppelganger
6. Dancing with Werewolves by Carol Wilson Davis
7. Sorcery and the Single Girl
8. Kitty and the Silver Bullet

IV. Non-Fiction & Fiction - Craft Related
1. Apron
2. The Zen of Knitting
3. Knitting in America
4. Knit, Knit
5. The Knitter's Book of Yarn
6.
7.
8.

V. General History (Anything)
1. Sex with Kings : 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge by Eleanor Herman
2. The Looming Tower
3. Secrets of the Serpent
4. Secrets of the Gnostics
5. The Siege of Mecca
6. The Great Hurrican : 1938
7. The Crusades
8. Adams vs. Jefferson

VI. Graphic Novels
1. Serenity
2. Usagi Yojimbo: The Brink of Life and Death
3. Buffy : The Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home
4. Tales of the Vampires
5. Tales of the Slayers
6. SHAZAM! The Monster Society of Evil
7. Mystic Arcana
8.

VII. Young Adult / Children's Literature
1. The Subtle Knife
2. The Amber Spyglass
3. Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norris
4. Twilight
5. Diggers
6. Spellbinders: Signs & Wonders
7. Spider-Girl Vol. 1: Legacy
8. Astonishing X-Men: Emma Frost, Vol. 2 - Mind Games

IIX. Ancient History & Medieval History
1. The Persian Wars, Vol. 1
2. The March of the Ten Thousand
3. The Jewish War
4. The Late Roman Empire
5. The Reformation
6. The Enlightened Despots
7. The Renaissance
8. The Rise and Fall of Alexandria

As you can see, I am a bit of a history and fantasy nut. I do reserve the right to add and change if the books are too horrible to finish! And, I can't remember the names of some of the books in my TBR list that I've included as part of the challenge - but I will be updating with that soon.

Of course, I just combined the audiobooks with the regular books so I could knit and read at the same time.

Posted by MLO at 2/25/2007 06:44:00 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Chick-lit, Christian Young Adult, Graphic Novels, paranormal romance, romances, Urban Fantasy, Vampires