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Yati's list
Saturday, November 1, 2008

Hi everyone. Here's my list for the challenge. The first group overlaps with Dewey's Man Booker challenge.

Booker prize winners and shortlisted or longlisted titles

1. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
   » completed 22 March 2008
2. Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
3. Possession: A Romance by AS Byatt
   » completed 7 July 2008
4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
5. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
6. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
   » completed 13 July 2008
7. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
   » completed 10 October 2008
8. number9dream by David Mitchell
   » completed 4 June 2008
9. The Accidental by Ali Smith
10. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
11. The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
12. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
    » completed 22 May 2008

classics

1. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous
2. East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Peter Asbjørnsen
   » completed 21 September 2008
3. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
   » completed 25 August 2008
5. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
6. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
7. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8. A Room with a View by EM Forster

books set (at least partly) in Asia

1. My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
2. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
3. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
   » completed 30 October 2008
4. A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul
5. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
   » completed 1 March 2008
6. The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
7. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
8. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
9. The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng

young adult/juvenile fiction

1. Kit’s Wilderness by David Almond
   » completed 23 February 2008
2. The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
   » completed 24 April 2008
3. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
   » completed 11 February 2008
4. Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers
   » completed 5 April 2008
5. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
   » completed 3 May 2008
6. Just in Case by Meg Rosoff
   » completed 4 May 2008
7. House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
   » completed 14 May 2008
8. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
   » completed 19 April 2008

speculative fiction

1. Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint
   » completed 15 February 2008
2. The Giver by Lois Lowry
   » completed 26 April 2008
3. Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
   » completed 15 May 2008
4. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A McKillip
   » completed 3 May 2008
5. Winter Rose by Patricia A McKillip
   » completed 20 March 2008
6. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
   » completed 1 March 2008
7. Temeraire by Naomi Novik
   » completed 21 February 2008
8. Starcross by Philip Reeve
   » completed 24 March 2008

recommended by my sister

1. Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
2. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernièrs
3. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
4. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
5. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
6. A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul
7. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
8. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday

other books we own

1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
   » completed 19 October 2008
2. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
   » completed 1 May 2008
3. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
   » completed 19 October 2008
4. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
   » completed 29 February 2008
5. King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett
   » completed 30 September 2008
6. Predator’s Gold by Philip Reeve
   » completed 4 October 2008
7. The Name of the Wind by Philip Rothfuss
   » completed 14 October 2008
8. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
   » completed 15 May 2008

(not the first book!) in a series

1. Queens’ Play by Dorothy Dunnet
   » completed 16 March 2008
2. The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnet
   » completed 26 March 2008
3. Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett
   » completed 28 March 2008
4. The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett
   » completed 30 March 2008
5. Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett
   » completed 1 April 2008
6. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle
   » completed 3 January 2008
7. Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
   » completed 10 March 2008
8. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
   » completed 21 August 2008

Posted by Y at 11/01/2008 10:30:00 PM 0 comments  

Labels: already owned, Bookers, books set in Asia, Classics, In a series, recommendations, speculative fiction, Yati, Young Adult

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

Poodlerat's List
Wednesday, March 5, 2008

1: Juvenile and Young Adult Fantasy

1. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
2. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
3. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
4. Freaks: Alive, on the Inside! by Annette Curtis Klause
5. The Spell of the Sorcerer’s Skull by John Bellairs
6. The Mansion in the Mist by John Bellairs
7. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

2: Direct Sequels to Books I’ve Read
(second books only—later books in a series don’t count)

1. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
2. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
3. Scardown by Elizabeth Bear
4. Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz
5. The Demon and the City by Liz Williams
6. Mollie Peer by Van Reid
7. Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
8. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

3: From North Africa and the Middle East

1. The Sand Child by Tahar ben Jelloun (Morocco)
2. In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (Libya)
3. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (Sudan)
4. The Yacoubian Building by Alaa el-Aswany (Egypt)
5. Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
6. I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti (Palestine)
7. Look for Me by Edeet Ravel (Israel)
8. The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmeena Khadra (Afghanistan)

4: Classic Works of Science Fiction
(x-over with Sci-Fi Classics Challenge)

1. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
2. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
3. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
4. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
5. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
6. Ringworld by Larry Niven
7. Gateway by Frederik Pohl
8. Hyperion by Dan Simmons

5: Books by Agatha Christie I’ve Never Read
(x-over with the Anything Agatha Challenge)

1. Murder in Mesopotamia
2. Sparkling Cyanide (or Remembered Death)
3. Crooked House
4. Ordeal by Innocence
5. The Pale Horse
6. Elephants Can Remember
7. Come, Tell Me How You Live
8. Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

6: The Mary Russell Series by Laurie R. King
(re-reads, in preparation for the release of #9, The Language of Bees, in 2009)

1. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women
3. A Letter of Mary
4. The Moor
5. O Jerusalem
6. Justice Hall
7. The Game
8. Locked Rooms

7: Contemporary Fantasy

1. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2. Widdershins by Charles de Lint
3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
4. From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
5. Blood Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton
6. Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton
7. Little, Big by John Crowley
8. Blood Debt by Tanya Huff

8: Classic Works of Fantasy
(x-over with Fantasy Classics Challenge)

1. Little, Big by John Crowley
2. Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
3. Beauty by Robin McKinley
4. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
5. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
6. Watership Down by Richard Adams
7. The Dunwich Horror and Other by H.P. Lovecraft
8. Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny

Posted by Poodlerat at 3/05/2008 09:38:00 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Around the World, Fantasy, In a series, re-reads, Sci-fi, speculative fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult