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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

Amy E's List
Saturday, February 9, 2008

As of Feb: 3/59

Emboldened works are my duplicates.

1. Queer Fiction

Fiction with LGBTTQQIAAP themes

1. Jack, A.M. Homes
2. Maurice, E.M. Forester
3. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
4. A Son Called Gabriel, Damian McNicholl
5. Choir Boy, Charlie Anders
6. Best Lesbian Erotica 2007, Tristan Taormino (I swear it’s not cheating.)
7. Rose of No Man’s Land, Michelle Tea
8. Orlando, Virginia Woolf

2. Authored by a female-identified person

1. Everything You Need, A.L. Kennedy
2. My Sister’s Continent, Gina Frangello
3. Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
4. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
5. Everyone’s Pretty, Lydia Millet
6. In the Country of the Young, Lisa Carey
7. The End of Mr Y, Scarlett Thomas
8. The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, Michelle Tea

3. French (aka Books by Colette and Anaïs Nin)

I intended to make this category more diverse, but I’ve had these books on my to-read list for so long the Colette/Nin thing just sort of happened.

1. Cities of the Interior: Book 1, Anaïs Nin
   
2. Cities of the Interior: Book 2, Anaïs Nin
3. Cities of the Interior: Book 3, Anaïs Nin
4. Cities of the Interior: Book 4, Anaïs Nin 
5. Cities of the Interior: Book 5, Anaïs Nin (Okay, this was probably cheating.)
6. The Complete Claudine, Colette
7. Little Birds, Anaïs Nin
8. Delta of Venus, Anaïs Nin

4. Poetry

My goal here is not to read the entirety of these poets’ works but to find at least one poem from each that I really really like.

1. Ariel, Sylvia Plath
2. Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton
3. The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson
4. Selected Poems, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
5. Poems of W.B. Yeats, W.B. Yeats
6. Poems of John Keats, John Keats
7. Rossetti: Poems, Christina Rossetti
8. Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (because he looks like Gandalf)

5. Feminism and Queer Theory

A nonfiction counterpart to the queer fiction category

1. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Judith Butler
2. The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminism Abortion Service, Laura Kaplan
3. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, Naomi Wolf
4. Myths of Gender, Anne Fausto-Sterling
5. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade, Ann Fessler
6. The Riddle of Gender, Deborah Rudacille
7. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, Anne Fausto-Sterling
8. Gender, Race, and Class, Lynn S. Chancer et al.

6. Books that are older than me

Things published before 1984.

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
2. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
3. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
4. Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
5. The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek
6. The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
7. An Introduction to Mathematics, Alfred North Whitehead
8. The Aims of Education, Alfred North Whitehead

7. Philosophy and/or Activism

1. An Introduction to Mathematics, Alfred North Whitehead
2. The Aims of Education, Alfred North Whitehead
3. Philosophical Writings, Simone de Beauvoir
4. The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir
5. Scientific Inquiry: Readings in the Philosophy of Science, Robert Klee
6. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, William McDonough et al.
7. Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
8. No Contest: The Case Against Competition, Alfie Kohn

8. Light Reading – A respite from my own list

1. A Practical Guide to Racism, C.H. Dalton
2. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, Natile Angier
3. The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasure of Obituaries, Marilyn Johnson
4. The Farewell Chronicles: How We Really Respond to Death, Anneli S. Rufus
5. How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, Pierre Bayard
6. The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
7. The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice, Catherynne Valente
8. Dahlia Season, Myriam Gurba

Posted by Amy E. at 2/09/2008 12:26:00 PM 1 comments  

Labels: Amy E, feminism and queer theory, french, light reading, philosophy and activism, poetry, pre-1984, queer fiction, Women Writers

Joanna's 888 list
Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Completed: 31/56 as of 4 August 2008

Books that have been on my Amazon wish list for ages (3/8)
1) Hunting and Gathering by Ana Gavalda
2) The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
3) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
4) Perfume by Patrick Suskind
5) Unstolen by Wendy Jean
6) Undead and Unwed by Mary Janice Davidson
7) Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
8) Witch Child by Celia Rees

Classics (6/8)
1) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2) The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery
3) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
4) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
5) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
6) The Color Purple by Alice Walker
7) Animal Farm by George Orwell
8) Winnie-the-pooh by A.A. Milne

Books in Polish (2/8)
1) Klub mało używanych dziewic - Monika Szwaja
2) Samotność w sieci - Janusz L. Wiśniewski
3) Quo vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
4) Ono - Dorota Terakowska
5) A nie mówiłam - Katarzyna Grochola
6) Różowe tabletki na uspokojenie - Katarzyna Janda
7) Tego lata, w Zawrociu - Hanna Kowalewska
8) Dziennik Irlandzki by Heinrich Boll

Prize winners (4/8)
1) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
2) Murder on a Girls' Night Out (Agatha Award)
3) The Color Purple (1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Award)
4) The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
5) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
6) The Giver (1994 Newbery Medal)
7) Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
8) To Kill a Mockingbird (Pulitzer 1960)

Non-Fiction (3/8)
1) Getting Things Done by David Allen
2) The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
3) The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
4) The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
5) Imperium by Ryszard Kapuściński
6) The Celts, First Masters of Europe by Christiane Eluerest
7) A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
8) The Year 1000 by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger

Women Writers (6/8)
1) Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
2) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
3) Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
4) Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
5) Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
6) I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
7) The Boy on the Bus by Deborah Schupack
8) The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Fantasy/S-F/Supernatural (6/8)
1) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
2) Stardust by Neil Gaiman
3) Undead and Unwed by Mary-Janice Davidson
4) Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
5) Jennifer Government by Max Barry
6) The Giver by Lois Lowry
7) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
8) The Stolen Child by Keith Donahue

Young Adult (6/8)
1) Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
2) Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesaar
3) Girls Under Pressure by Jacqueline Wilson
4) The Earth, My Butt and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
5) The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
6) The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants by Ann Brashares
7) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
8) Witch Child by Celia Rees

Posted by joanna at 2/05/2008 06:20:00 AM 2 comments  

Labels: books in Polish, books on wish list, Classics, Fantasy, joanna, Non-fiction, prize winners, Women Writers, Young Adult

Alyson's 888
Saturday, December 15, 2007

Category 1: Austen-related books
1. Persuasion by Jane Austen
2. Northhanger Abbey by Jane Austen
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
5. Emma by Jane Austen
6. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
7. Austenland by Shannon Hale
8. Mr. Darcy's Diary by Amanda Grange

Category 2: Woman Authors
1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2. Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
3. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
4. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
5. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier
6. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
7. Little Women by Louisa Mae Alcott
8. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Category 3: Margaret Atwood
1. Cat's Eye
2. Handmaid's Tale (completed 1/1/2008)
3. The Blind Assassin
4. Oryx and Crake
5. The Penelopiad
6. Alias Grace
7. The Robber Bride
8. The Edible Woman

Category 4: Terry Pratchett
1. The Colour of Magic
2. The Light Fantastic
3. Sourcery
4. Faust Eric
5. Interesting Times
6. The Last Continent
7. The Last Hero
8. Small Gods

Category 5: Made Into Movies
1. P.S., I Love You by Cecilia Ahearn
2. Little Women by Louisa Mae Alcott
3. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini
5. Emma by Jane Austen
6. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
8. Atonement by Ian McEwan

Category 6: Nora Roberts
1. Morrigan's Cross
2. Dance of the Gods
3.Valley of Silence
4. Key of Light
5. Key of Knowledge
6. Key of Valor
7. Blood Brothers
8. The Hollow
9. The Pagan Stone

Category 7: Wizards
1. HP and the Sorcerer's Stone
2. HP and the Chamber of Secrets
3. HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban
4. HP and the Goblet of Fire
5. HP and the Order of the Phoenix
6. HP and the Half-Blood Prince
7. HP and the Deathly Hallows
8. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Category 8: TBR (for a year or more)
1. Fahrenheit-451 by Ray Bradbury
2. The World According to Garp by John Irving
3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini
6. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
7. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
8. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Posted by alethe16 at 12/15/2007 11:43:00 AM 0 comments  

Labels: Alyson, Atwood, Austen, Movies, Pratchett, Roberts, TBR stacks, Wizards, Women Writers

888 List for Tressa/An Infinitude of Books
Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Hi all! This is my first reading challenge, and I’m thrilled to be here.

Here’s my list for the 888 Challenge without overlaps. I’ll only do overlaps if I’m in trouble around November of 2008. Who knows what the year will bring, right? But I’m going to try to do the full 64.


I. Non-Fiction:

1. Ghosts of Vesuvius by Charles Pellegrino
2. The Female Thing by Laura Kipnis
3. Body Brokers : Inside America's Underground Trade In Human Remains by Annie Cheney
4. Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz
5. Dumbing Us Down : the hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling by John Taylor Gatto
6. Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves
7. Working by Studs Terkel
8. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

II. Young Adult Fiction:

1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
2. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
3. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
4. The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
5. Deerskin by Robin McKinley
6. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
7. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1 by Diana Wynne Jones
8. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 2 by Diana Wynne Jones

III. Books from the 1001 books To Read Before You Die List:

1. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
2. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
3. Saturday by Ian McEwan
4. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
5. In A Glass Darkly by Sheridan le Fanu
6. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
7. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel by Jamie O'Neill

IV. Books About Books:

1. Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen
2. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
3. So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson
4. Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama. and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore- Susan Shea
5. Sixpence House by Paul Collins
6. Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
7. The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
8. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

V. Women Writers:

1. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
2. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
4. The Children of Men by P.D. James
5. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
6. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
7. Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
8. Topdog/Underdog by Suzan Lori-Parks

VI. Not-Yet-Read Classics:

1. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
2. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
3. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
4. Jazz by Toni Morrison
5. The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
6. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
7. A Maggot by John Fowles
8. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

VII. The 1700s and 1800s:

1. She by Rider Haggard
2. A Woman’s Life by de Maupassant
3. Silas Marner by George Eliot
4. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
5. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
6. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe
7. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
8. The Marble Faun by Hawthorne

VIII. Selections From My TBR Pile:

1. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
2. Black Jack by Leon Garfield
3. A Natural History of the Romance Novel by Pamela Regis
4. The Complete Sandman: Volume Two by Neil Gaiman
5. I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak
6. The Curse of Chalion by Lois M. Bujoid
7. A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson
8. Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Posted by An Infinitude of Books at 12/04/2007 05:30:00 PM 1 comments  

Labels: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 1700s and 1800s, Books about Books, Classics, Non-fiction, TBR stacks, Tressa, Women Writers, Young Adult

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