Showing posts with label Urban Fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urban Fantasy. Show all posts

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

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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

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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

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