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Leah's List
Saturday, December 29, 2007

8 History Books
1. Mistress of the Elgin Marbles
2. Walk Through the Bible **
3. A Short History of Nearly Everything
4. The Odyssey **
5. Cat of Bubastes **
6. Desire of the Everlasting Hills
7. The Gifts of the Jews
8. Shakespeare **

8 Novels
1. Washington Square
2. Persuasion
3. Cry, the Beloved Country
4. Lake Wobegon Days
5. Love in a Time of Cholera
6. The Silence
7. Middlemarch
8. Voyage of the Dawn Treader **

8 Mysteries
1. Maisie Dobbs
2. Murder on the Orient Express
3. Father Brown
4. The Name of the Rose
5. Lord Peter Wimsey book
6. Mary Russell Mystery
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8 School Related
1. Cat of Bubastes **
2. Voyage of the Dawn Treader **
3. As You Like It
4. Till We Have Faces
5. The Odyssey **
6. The Tempest
7. Reading Like a Writer **
8. Walk Through the Bible **

8 Non-Fiction
1. Shakespeare, by Bryson **
2. Summer at Tiffany
3. Reading Like a Writer **
4. Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog
5. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
6. How to Read a Book
7. Small is Beautiful
8. Conflict of Visions

8 Food Books
1. The Perfectionist, Life and Death in Haute Cuisine
2. The 64 Dollar Tomato
3. Blithe Tomato
4. My Life in France
5. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
6. Dining Out on Adventure
7. Humble Pie
8. Epitaph for a Peach

8 Book Club Books
1. The Future and its Enemies
2. Stop Dating the Church **
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8 Religious Books
1. Screwtape Letters
2. The Cost of Discipleship
3. Orthodoxy
4. Mere Christianity
5. Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance
6. Steering Through Chaos
7. For the Life of the World
8. Stop Dating the Church **

Leah at Nourishing Body and Soul

Posted by Leah at 12/29/2007 01:12:00 AM 0 comments  

Labels: food, IRL Book Clubs, Mystery, Non-fiction, Religion

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

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