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Tiny Little Librarian's Picks
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Posted by tinylittlelibrarian at 12/31/2008 12:20:00 PM 7 comments  

Labels: Historical fiction, Mystery, New York, New-to-me authors, Non-fiction, Numbers, Southern, tinylittlelibrarian, Vampires

Amy's Choices
Thursday, October 30, 2008

8 Book Around the World Books

1. We Just Want to Live Here - Amal Rifa’i and Odelia Ainbinder (Israel/Palestine)
2. The Kommandant’s Girl - Pam Jenoff (Poland)
   
3. Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
4. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid (Pakistan)
5. A Thousand Veils - D. J. Murphy
6. The Septembers of Shiraz - Dalia Sofer(Iran)
7. The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway(Sarajevo)
8. The Book Thief - Makus Zusak(Germany)

8 World War II Books

1. The Kommandant’s Girl – Pam Jenoff
2. Dream When You’re Feeling Blue – Elizabeth Berg
3. Resistance - Owen Sheers
4. The Nazi Officer’s Wife -Edith Hahn Beer
   
5. Dear Enemy - Jack Cavanaugh
6. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
7. The Diplomat’s Wife - Pam Jenoff
8. Clouds Over Mountains - Matt Joseph

8 Urban Fantasy Novels

1. Moon Called – Patricia Briggs
2. Ill Wind - Rachel Caine
   
3. Chill Factor – Rachel Caine
4. Heat Stroke – Rachel Caine
5. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
   
6. Any Given Doomsday - Lori Handeland
7. Kitty Takes a Holiday – Carrie Vaughn
8. The Taste of Night – Vicki Pettersson

8 Suspense/Thrillers

1. Speak No Evil – Allison Brennan
2. The Brass Verdict - Michael Connelly
3. Wolf in the Shadows - Marcia Muller
   
4. A Place of Execution - Val McDermid
   
5. Red Sea - E.A. Benedek
6. Flowers for Emily - T.L. Vance
7. Divine Justice - David Baldacci
8. The Bone Garden - Tess Gerritsen

8 Young Adult Titles

1. Eclipse-Stephenie Meyer
2. Unwind - Neal Shusterman
   
3. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
   
4. Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer
5. The Dead and the Gone - Susan Beth Pfeffer
6. The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
   
7. Gone- Michael Grant
8. The Floor of the Sky - Pamela Carter Joern
   

8 ARCs

1. The House at Riverton - Kate Morton
2. Firefly Lane - Kristin Hannah
3. Songs for the Missing - Stewart O’Nan
4. Testimony - Anita Shreve
5. The Wednesday Sisters - Meg Waite Clayton
6. Have You Found Her? - Janice Erlbaum
7. The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
8. The Lace Reader - Brunonia Barry

8 Non-Fiction

1. Have You Found Her? - Janice Erlbaum
2. The Devil Came on Horseback - Brian Steidle
3. When Answers Aren’t Enough - Matt Rogers
4. The Working Poor: Invisible in America - David K. Shipler
5. Mayada, Daughter of Iraq - Jean Sasson
6. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
7. The Millionaire Next Door - Stanley and Danko
8. Scratch Beginnings - Adam Shepard
   

8 Historical Fiction

1. People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
2. The Winter Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
3. The Heretic’s Daugher - Kathleen Kent
4. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Kate Summerscale
5. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Schaffer and Barrows
6. The Bone Garden - Tess Gerrisen
   
7. The Queen's Fool - Phillipa Gregory
   
8. The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
   

Posted by Amy at 10/30/2008 08:00:00 AM 2 comments  

Labels: Amy, ARCs, Around the World, Historical fiction, Non-fiction, Suspense/Thrillers, Urban Fantasy, World War II, Young Adult

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

Tammy's picks
Sunday, August 3, 2008

Hi, I'm Tammy

Posted by Tammy at 8/03/2008 01:50:00 AM 0 comments  

Labels: Fantasy, Historical fiction, In a series, Non-fiction, romances, Sci-fi, short story collections, TV/movie

J.C. Montgomery's List
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Books which are overlaps are in bold.
Books I have already read and reviewed show as links back to my blog.

Women Authors

1. The Gathering by Anne Enright
2. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
3. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
4. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
5. Pilgrim At Tinker Creek by Anne Dillard
6. What The Dead Know by Laura Lippmann
7. Katherine by Anya Seton
8. The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins

From My TBR Shelf

1. The Declaration by Gemma Malley
2. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
3. Kept by D.J. Taylor
4. Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
5. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
6. Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
7. Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
8. The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld

Short Story Collections

1. Classic Ghost Stories - Ed. by John Grafton
2. The Ebony Tower by John Fowles
3. Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
4. Later, At The Bar by Rebecca Barry
5. Sunstroke: And Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
6. 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
7. Dubliners by James Joyce
8. Into The Dreamlands - Various

Fantasy/Dark Fantasy (a whole new genre for me!)

1. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
2. Unquiet Dreams by Mark Del Franco
3. Unshapely Things by Mark Del Franco
4. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
5. Into The Dreamlands - Various
6. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
7. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
8. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

Award Winners

1. Independence Day by Richard Ford
2. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
3. The Gathering by Anne Enright
4. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
5. The Known World by Edward Jones
6. Beloved by Toni Morrison
7. Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
8. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Banned Books

1. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
2. Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett
3. The House Of Spirits by Isabel Allende
4. Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates
5. Beloved by Toni Morrison
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
7. Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
8. Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck

Books with 'Book' Theme

1. The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
3. City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moer
4. The Yellow-Lighted Bookstore by Lewis Buzbee
5. An Alphabetical Life by Wendy Werris
6. The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco
7. The Rule Of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
8. The Archivist's Story by Travis Holland

Historical Fiction

1. Katherine by Anya Seton
2. The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton
3. Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett
4. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
5. Snow Flower And The Secret Fan by Lisa See
6. March by Geraldine Brooks
7. Soul Catcher by Michael C. White
8. The Commoner by John Burnham Scwartz

Posted by J.C. Montgomery at 2/12/2008 02:13:00 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Award Winners, Banned Books, Books about Books, Fantasy, Historical fiction, J.C. Montgomery, short story collections, TBR stacks, Women Writers

Embejo's List
Friday, February 8, 2008

Categories:

1. Children’s Favourites
2. Classics
3. Non-Fiction
4. Historical Fiction
5. Books I’ve wanted to read
6. Light Fiction/Easy to read
7. Homeschooling/Education
8. Books made into Movies
9. About or Set in Africa

Progress: 38/64



Children’s Favourites:
1. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
2. The Willoughbys - Lois Lowry
3. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
4. The Borrowers - Mary Norton
5. The Complete Tales - Beatrix Potter
6. Pollyanna - Elanor Porter
7. Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
8. Pipi Longstocking - AstridLindgren


Classics:
1. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
3. Lord of the Flies - Golding
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. 1984 - George Orwell
6. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque
7. The Catcher in the Rye - J D Sallinger
8. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
9. The Sea - John Banville


Non-Fiction:
1. Adventures of Pioneer Women in NZ
2. Five Days in London - John Lukacs
3. Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
5. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
6. Absolute Power - Ian Wishart
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Historical Fiction:
1. The Handmaid and the Carpenter - Elizabeth Berg
2. Sarah - Orson Scott Card
3. A Voice in the Wind - Francine Rivers
4. The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory
5. The Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory
6. Resistance - Owen Sheers
7. Morgan's Run - Colleen McCullough
8. Jessica - Bryce Courtenay

Books I’ve wanted to read:
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
2. The Colour Purple - Walker
3. My Left Foot - Christy Brown
4. I am David - Anne Holm
5. Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
6. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
7. The Widow and Her Hero - Thomas Keneally
8. Lies That Go Unchallenged - Charles Colson

Light/Easy Fiction:
1. The Pilot’s Wife - Anita Shreve
2. A River Runs Through it - Norman Maclean
3. Lucy Sullivan Got Married - Marian Keyes
4. Mrs Kimble - Jennifer Haigh
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Homeschooling/Education:
1. Honey for a Child’s Heart - Gladys Hunt
2. The Well Trained Mind - Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer
3. For the Children’s Sake - Susan Schaeffer Macauley
4. Dumbing us Down - John Gatto
5. Romancing Your Child's Heart - Monte Swan
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Books Into Movies:
1. Master and Commander - Patrick O’Brian
2. The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
3. The Perfect Storm - Sebastion Junger
4. Forest Gump - Winston Groom
5. Schindler’s List - Thomas Keneally
6. Corelli’s Mandolin - Loius DeBernieres (didn't finish)
7. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
8. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

About/ Set in Africa
1. Tandia - Bryce Courtenay
2. Left to Tell - Immaculee Ilibagiza
3. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier - Ishmael Beah
4. Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
5 There is no me without You - Melissa Fay Greene
6. Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
7. I Dreamed of Africa - Kuki Gallman
8. The Sound of Thunder - Wilbur Smith

Yes, I know I have 9 categories....I'm changing it as I go along. It will be settled by the end.

Posted by embejo at 2/08/2008 10:52:00 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Africa, Childhood favorites, Classics, Education, Embejo, Historical fiction, Homeschooling, light reading, Movies, Non-fiction

BloggingMolly's lists
Saturday, January 5, 2008

Non-fiction - Family
1. Power of a Praying Parent by Omartian
2. The Fruit of Her Hands by Wilson
3. You Can't Make Me but I Can be Persuaded by Tobias
4. Peacemaking for Families by Sande
5. The Most Important Place on Earth by Wolgemuth
6. The Heart of Anger by Priolo
7. The Age of Opportunity by Tripp
8. Don't Make Me Count to Three by Plowman

Spiritual Growth
1. Starving Jesus by Gross
2. Quaker Summer by Sampson
3. Get Out of That Pit by Moore
4. Messy Spirituality by Yaconelli
5. The Ragamuffin Gospel by Manning
6. Soul Cravings by McManus
7. Jesus, the One and Only by Moore
8. The Prayer That Changes Everything by Omartian

Classics I Should Have Read a Long Time Ago
1. Pride and Predjudice by Austen
2. The Mysterious Stranger by Twain
3. Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
4. Animal Farm by Orwell
5. 1984 by Orwell
6. The Pearl by Steinbeck
7. The Yearling by Rawlings
8. Tom Sawyer by Twain

Banned Books
1. Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Twain
2. Farenheit 451 by Bradbury
3. Bridge to Terebithia by Paterson
4. Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
5. The Giver by Lowry
6. My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier
7. All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
8. Mirandy and Brother Wind by McKissack

Newbery Winners
1. Johnny Tremain by Forbes
2. Rifles for Watie by Keith
3. The Slave Dancer by Fox
4. Number the Stars by Lowry
5. Jacob Have I Loved by Paterson
6. The Grey King by Cooper
7. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Taylor
8. Island of the Blue Dolphins by O'Dell

Young Adult Fiction
1. Stormbreaker by Harowitz 1-13-08
2. Daughter of Time by Tey
3. Byzantium by Lawhead
4. Court of the Stone Children by Cameron
5. Blue Ridge Billy by Lenski
6. Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Field
7. Moccasin Trail by McGraw
8. Little Britches by Moody

Historical Fiction
1. Across Five Aprils by Hunt
2. Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom by Paterson
3. Red Badge of Courage by Crane
4. Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Choi
5. Kiss the Dust by Laird
6. Under the Hawthorn Tree by Conlon-McKenna
7. Number the Stars by Lowry
8. Phoenix Rising by Hesse

Childhood Favorites
1. Little House in the Big Woods by Wilder
2. Winnie the Pooh by Milne
3. Alice in Wonderland by Carroll
4. Peter Pan by Barrie
5. Caddie Woodlawn by Brinks
6. Prince Caspian by Lewis
7. Ginger Pye by Estes
8. Runaway Ralph by Cleary

Posted by Molly at 1/05/2008 07:37:00 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Banned Books, BloggingMolly, Childhood favorites, Classics, Historical fiction, newbery, Non-fiction, spiritual, Young Adult

Alix's List
Friday, December 7, 2007

It was quite daunting making this list but now it is done I feel very organised and excited. I love this challenge it is such a great idea. I'm sure I can read a book a week!

Non-fiction

1. A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson
2. Painting as a Pastime - Winston Churchill
3. Agatha Christie: The biography - Laura Thompson
4. Edith Wharton - Hermione Lee
5. Mad, bad and dangerous to know - Ranulph Fiennes
6. Nellas Last war - Richard Boarch and Suzie Fleming
7. I nevr knew that about England - Christopher Winn
8. War time scrapbook From Blitz to Victory 1939-1945 - Robert Opie

1. Mr Darcy's Diary - Maya Slater
2. Rachel's Holiday - Marion Keyes
3. Eragon - Christopher Paolini
4. P.s I love you - Ceceila Ahern
5. A kingdom of Dreams - Judith McNaught
6. The uncommon Reader - Alan Bennet
7. Inkheart - Corneila Funke
8. Falling for you - Jill Mansell

1. The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
   
2. TBA
3. TBA
4. TBA
5. TBA
6. TBA
7. TBA
8. TBA

1. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
2. A thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
3. Suite Francasie - Irene Nemirovsky
4. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons CROSS READ
   
5. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford CROSS READ
   
6. Persuasion - Jane Austen
7. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
8. Winter in Madrid - C J Sansom

1. Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
2. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
3. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
4. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
   
5. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
6. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
7. Hideous Kinky - Ester Freud
8. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

1. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald CROSS READ
   
2. Barometer Rising - Hugh MacLennan
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen CROSS READ
   
4. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James CROSS READ
   
5. The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson CROSS READ
   
6. Washington Square - Henry James
7. Pursuasion - Jane Austen CROSS READ
   
8. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen CROSS READ
   

1. The careful use of compliments - Alexander McCall Smith
2. TBA
3. TBA
4. TBA
5. TBA
6. TBA
7. TBA
8. TBA

1. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
2. The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
3. The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl
4. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
5. Sweet Cyprus - Agatha Christe
6. Endless Night - Agatha Christie
7. Passenger to Frankfurt - Agatha Christie
8. One for the Money - Janet Evanovich - Completed
   

Posted by Alix at 12/07/2007 05:11:00 PM 4 comments  

Labels: alix, Book Clubs, catch my eye, Classics, Escapism, Historical fiction, Mystery, Non-fiction, re-reads

Shree's Bunch of Books
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Mostly done, a few books still to be added
1) Native American Writers
*Skins – Adrian Louis
*Almanac of the Dead – Leslie Marmon Silko
*Perma Red – Debra Earling 2/08
*Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie 1/08
*Solar Storms – Linda Hogan
*Fool’s Crow – James Welch
*Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner – Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
*Ravensong - Lee Maracle
2) Historical Fiction
*Life Mask – Emma Donoghue
*Coffee Trader – David Liss
*Game of Kings – Dorothy Dunnett
*Royal Flash – George MacDonald Fraser
*Fanny – Erica Jong
*Lamplighter – Anthony O’Neill
*Dissolution – C.S. Sansom
*Ex-Libris – Ross King
3) Women Writers
*Lady Audley’s Secret – M.E. Braddon
*Brief Lives – Anita Brookner
*Less Than Angels – Barbara Pym
*High Tide in Tucson – Barbara Kingsolver
*Peppered Moth – Margaret Drabble
*Minor Characters – Joyce Johnson
*Oblivion Seekers – Olivia Eberhardt
*Suspension of Mercy – Patricia Highsmith
4) Scottish Writers
*Resurrection Club – Christopher Wallace
*Not Knowing – Cathy Unsworth
*Quite Ugly One Morning – Christopher Brookmyre
*Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
*Negative Space – Zoe Strachan
*Field of Blood – Denise Mina
*Tumulus – Andrew Scott
*Women Talking Dirty - Ilsa Dewar
5) Non-Fiction
*Hell on Horses and Women – Alice Lee Marriott
*Letters of a Woman Homesteader – Elinore Pruitt
*Hidden West – Rob Schultheis
*Smashed – Koran Zailckas
*In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs – Christopher de Bellaigue
*I Didn’t Do it for You – Michele Wrong
*Coyote Woman – Tina La Marque
*Women Pirates - Ulrike Klausman
6) In Translation
*Landscape Painted with Tea – Milorad Pavic
*My Mother’s House – Colette
*Family Album – Claribel Alegria
*Ultraviolet Sky – Alma Villanueva
*Platform – Michel Houellebocq
*My Sister Guard Your Veil – ed. Lila Azam Zangeneh
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7) Mysteries
*Killing Kind – John Connolly 3/08
*Lazybones – Mark Billingham
*Tutankhamun Affair – Christian Jacq
*Winter House – Carol O’Connell
*Blood Orchid – Stuart Woods 3/08
*Stranger House – Reginald Hill
*Black Echo – Michael Connelly
*Blind to the Bones – Stephen Booth 2/08
8) Real Life Book Group
*Round Heeled Woman – Jane Juska 1/08
*Lies – Enrique de Heriz
*Practice to Deceit – Elizabeth Benedict 2/08
*Delirium - Laura Restrepo 1/08
*Last Night at the Lobster - O'Nan 2/08
*Bay of Angels - Anita Brookner 3/08
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Posted by Anonymous at 11/13/2007 07:57:00 PM 2 comments  

Labels: Historical fiction, In Translation, IRL Book Clubs, Mystery, Native American, Non-fiction, Scottish Writers, Shree, Women Writers

Amanda's List
Monday, October 1, 2007

A lot of my books will be rereads that I've been wanting to get to....basically to see if I still love the books and want to keep them (I'm getting desperate for shelf space) and the others are ones I feel I should have read by now or have been wanting to read for a very long time. Here's my tentative list:

8 Jodi Picoult Books:
-Perfect Match
-Salem Falls
-Songs of the Humpback Whale
-Harvesting the Heart
-Mercy
-Second Glance
-Keeping Faith
-Second Glance
-Change of Heart

8 2008 Books
-The Adoration of Jenna Fox
-Peeled
-Where the River Ends
-The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
-Light of the Moon
- The Battle of the Labyrinth
-Breaking Dawn
-Lock and Key

8 Adult Christian Fiction Books
-The Potluck Club Takes the Cake
-Only Uni
-Summer Snow
-Sisterchicks Do the Hula
-The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Rolling
-The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Caught
-Summer
-Between Sundays

8 Non-Fiction Titles
-Belly Laughs
-Book Crush
-Slightly Chipped
-The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy
-One At A Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter
-A Passion for Books
-Saving Levi
-Four Paws from Heaven

8 Children's Classic Books
-The Secret Garden
-A Little Princess
-Heidi
-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
-Pippi Longstockings
-The Wizard of Oz
-Alice in Wonderland
-Little Men

8 Young Adult Books
-In Your Dreams
-Only You, Sierra
-Pitch Black
-Deep Green
-Keeping the Moon
-The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
-Life As We Knew It
-Twisted

8 Newbery Honor Books
-Olive's Ocean
-Our Only May Amelia
-Home Was Here
-Everything on a Waffle
-The Great Gilly Hopkins
-The Hundred Penny Box
-Catherine Called Birdy
-A Corner of the Universe

8 Fantasy Books
-The Magician's Nephew
-The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
-The Horse and His Boy
-The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
-The Silver Chair
-A Wrinkle in Time
-Flyte
-The Shadow Thieves

Posted by Anonymous at 10/01/2007 12:03:00 PM 2 comments  

Labels: amanda, Childhood favorites, Christian Young Adult, Fantasy, Historical fiction, Jodi Picoult, Luanne Rice, newbery, re-reads