Ginger's Reading List (RED=READ BLUE=Link to Review)

Category One: Creativity and Spirit
1. Simple Abundance

Category Two: Favorite Authors
1.Predator by P. Cornwell
2. At Risk by P. Cornwell
3. The Sixth Victim by J. Patterson
4. The Mephisto Club by T. Gerristsen Review
5. One Shot...Lee Child
6. The Hard Way Lee Child
7. Bad Luck and Trouble Lee Child
8. Book of the Dead P. Cornwell

Category Three: New Authors
1. Ark Angel Alex Harwicks

Catogory Four: Mysteries/Thrillers

Category Five: Eight from 2008

Category Six: Read it Again/Old Favorites

Category Seven: Holiday Themed Novels
1. Trick or Treat Murder

Category Eight: Non Fiction
1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
2. Straight Talk Joyce Meyer

Red Highlighted Books are READ!!!!
Will update with a link for reviews.


Posted by Ginger at 1/28/2008 11:53:00 PM 0 comments

Ginger's Reading List

Category One: Creativity and Spirit
Category Two: Favorite Authors
Category Three: New Authors
Catogory Four: Mysteries/Thrillers
Category Five: Eight from 2008
Category Six: Read it Again/Old Favorites
Category Seven: Holiday Themed Novels
Category Eight: Non Fiction

I'll come back after a bit and update this list with the actual titles.

Posted by Ginger at 1/22/2008 09:26:00 PM 0 comments

Gautami's categories

I have been procastinating about making a list for this. Suppose I have to do it now as it already half of January 2008.

My tentative categories:

1) 8 romances

2) 8 award winners

3) 8 classics

4) 8 non fiction

5) 8 Stephen Kings books

6) 8 books that make me feel good. It can be assorted

7) 8 collected short stories

8) 8 Comics or graphic books

Posted by gautami tripathy at 1/15/2008 05:41:00 AM 0 comments

Vasilly

Forgot catergory #8

When I was a little girl..children's books
Teh Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Stuart Little - E.B. White
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
Tuck Everlasting- Natalie Babbit
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
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Posted by Vasilly at 1/14/2008 05:09:00 PM 0 comments

Vasilly's Picks

I love this challenge already. It was pretty fun trying to figure out my categories and lists.

Banned Books
Are you there, God? It's me Margaret - Judy Blume
The Lorax - Dr. Seuss
Brokeback Mountain- Annie Proulx
Tommyknocker- Stephen King
Balzac & the Little Chiness Seamstress
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
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Classics
Waiting for Godot-Samuel beckett
Anything by James Joyce
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Adventures of sherlock Holmes
Walden -Henry David Thoreau
Love and living - John Merton
The Sea, the Sea - Iris Murdoch
The Big Sleep- Raymond Chandler


It was a dark and stormy night: Creepy tales
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
Falling Angel - William Hjortsberg
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Without Blood- Alessandro Barrico
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
Dracula - Barm Stoker
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Books I can escape to
The Devil in the Blue Dress - Walter Mosley
Gone, Baby, Gone - Denis Lehane
Rare Encounters with ordinary birds- Lyanda Lynn Haupt
All the pretty horses - Cormac McCarthy
Living to tell - Antonya Nelson
What she saw in... - Lucinda Rosenfeld
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Size doesn't matter: Novellas, short stories, and poetry
A Blind man can see how much I love you - Amy Bloom
The braid - Stanley Junitz
Collected Poems - Howard Numerov
A good man is hard to find - Flannery O' Connor
The flash of lightning behind the mountain - Charles Bukowski
Breathing Underwater- Julie Orringer
I am no one you know - Joyce Carol Oates
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Translations/ International Fiction
Out Stealing Horses - Per Patterson
The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
The Seventh Wall - Fred Wander
The Voyage of the short serpent - Bernard du Boucheron
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Everything but the Kitchen Sink: Books I just feel like reading
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Julia's Chocolate - Cathy Lamb
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Posted by Vasilly at 1/14/2008 04:48:00 PM 0 comments

Scott's List

I'm a bit behind in posting this, but here they are. I'll update this with links every month or so. There are 3 doubles, I think. I'm already overextending myself, so fine. Incidentally, my book blog isn't on Blogger. It's here instead.

Thanks to 3M for hosting!

  1. Books I've Been Avoiding Because They're Way Super Too Long
    • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell / Susanna Clarke
    • The Mists of Avalon / Marion Zimmer Bradley
    • Dhalgren / Samuel R. Delany
    • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay / Michael Chabon
    • The Dragonbone Chair / Tad Williams
    • The Tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu
    • The Name of the Rose / Umberto Eco
    • Infinite Jest / David Foster Wallace
  2. Samuel R. Delany
    • Babel-17
    • Dhalgren
    • Hogg
    • Triton
    • Tales of Nevèrÿon
    • Neveryóna
    • Flight from Nevèrÿon
    • Return to Nevèrÿon
  3. Getting Somewhere in My Serieses'ses's
    • Superior Saturday / Garth Nix
    • A Storm of Swords / George R.R. Martin
    • Mort / Terry Pratchett
    • The Shadow in the North / Phillip Pullman
    • Death of Riley / Rhys Bowen
    • The Grey King / Susan Cooper
    • The Lost City of Faar / D.J. MacHale
    • The Opal Deception / Eoin Colfer
  4. Japanese Authors
    • Confessions of a Mask / Yukio Mishima
    • The Woman in the Dunes / Kobo Abe (13 Jan)
    • Norwegian Wood / Haruki Murakami
    • Coin Locker Babies / Ryu Murakami
    • The Tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu
    • Spring Snow / Yukio Mishima
    • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle / Haruki Murakami
    • Kangaroo Notebook / Kobo Abe
  5. Nonfiction About Pop Culture
    • The Lure of the Vampire / Milly Williamson
    • My Wicked, Wicked Ways / Errol Flynn
    • Burton on Burton / Tim Burton, et. al.
    • Reading Comics / Douglas Wolk
    • Why Buffy Matters / Rhonda Wilcox
    • The Art of Maurice Sendak / Selma Lanes
    • The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazake / Dani Cavallaro
    • Slayers and their Vampires / Bruce McClelland
  6. Gay Fiction
    • Confessions of a Mask / Yukio Mishima
    • The Sluts / Dennis Cooper
    • Faggots / Larry Kramer
    • Martin and John / Dale Peck
    • A Boy's Own Story / Edmund White
    • Hard / Wayne Hoffman
    • Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada / Keith Hale
    • Giovanni's Room / James Baldwin
  7. Small Press
    • Edition 69 / Vítěslav Nezval ; Jindřich Štyrský
    • The Sky Is a Well / Claudia Smith
    • Tony Takitani / Haruki Murakami
    • The Logogryph / Thomas Wharton
    • Eeeee Eee Eeee / Tao Lin
    • The Boy Detective Fails / Joe Meno
    • On Subbing / Dave
    • The Haunted Vagina / Carlton Mellick III
  8. Books That Have Been Sitting on My Shelf For-Freaking-EVER!!!
    • Still Life with Woodpecker / Tom Robbins
    • The Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
    • The Shipping News / Annie Proulx
    • The Satanic Verses / Salman Rushdie
    • Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism / Georgia Byng
    • The Life of Elizabeth I / Allison Weir
    • Trainspotting / Irvine Welsh
    • Memoirs of a Geisha / Arthur Golden

Posted by Scottula at 1/14/2008 11:20:00 AM 0 comments

Netty's 888 List

I went for a true 888 with 64 books & no repeats. Those marked with an * are ones that were already on my TBR pile.

I. Sci Fi/Fantasy
1. Exiles Return by Raymond Feist*
2. Chainfire by Terry Goodkind*
3. Phantom by Terry Goodkind*
4. A Feast for Crowns by George R.R. Martin*
5. Orc King by R.A. Salvatore*
6. Swan Song by Robert McCammon*
7. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
8. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

II. Classics
1. Persuasion by Jane Austen* - completed 1/11/08
2. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen* - completed 1/22/08
3. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen* - completed 1/14/08
4. Lady Susan by Jane Austen*
5. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
6. A Room With a View by EM Forster
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstory
8. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

III. Mystery/Thriller
1. A Superior Death by Nevada Barr* - completed 1/17/08
2. Second Thoughts by Margot Dalton*
3. The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz* - completed 1/15/08
4. Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
5. The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
6. Double Cross by James Patterson
7. Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane
8. Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris

IV. Books by North Carolina Authors
1. The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons*
2. Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
3. The Winter People by John Ehle
4. The Secret of Hurricanes by Theresa Williams
5. Raney by Clyde Edgerton
6. In the Forest of Harm by Sallie Bissell
7. The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love by Joan A. Medlicott
8. Brave Enemies by Robert Morgan

V. Non-fiction
1. Big Russ & Me by Tim Russert*
2. The Innocent Man by John Grisham*
3. We Were Soldiers Once...And Young by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore & Joseph Galloway*
4. Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley & Ron Powers*
5. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
6. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt*
7. All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
8. A Long Way gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

VI. Women's Fiction
1. Atonement by Ian McEwan - completed 1/26/08
2. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
3. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
4. Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
5. Back on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
6. Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross
7. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
8. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell

VII. Books from the 2007 NY Times Notable List
1. The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
2. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
3. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
4. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
5. Later, at the Bar by Rebecca Barry
6. Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
7. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
8. Matrimony by Joshua Henkin

VIII. Books Published in 2008 - list to be completed through the year
1. Duma Key - Stephen King - completed 1/27/08
2. Snowfall at Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs
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Posted by Susan at 1/13/2008 11:17:00 PM 0 comments

Just a reminder

Because there are so many participants and 50+ books each, we won't be posting reviews here. However, you should be providing links to your reviews (if you have a blog), and bringing your original post with your book selections up to the top by updating the date. You do this by going to 'post options' in the lower left corner of the post box, and then the date will be in the lower right hand corner where you will be able to change it.

We already have some fascinating categories for this challenge, and I'm looking forward to reading your book reviews!

3m
http://1morechapter.com

Posted by 1morechapter at 1/13/2008 12:05:00 AM 0 comments

COMPLETED!!!! LeadMomma's 888 Challenge

This is a fun, flexible way to push myself to read a little more, in some new areas, and even best of all -- get ideas from other readers! I am not much of a planner, so setting out the categories is enough to get my ball rolling. An aside you may be interested to know - another goal for 2008 -- I will not purchase any new books -- I can check out books from the library and borrow them from friends. Nearly everything I will read will be from my TBR pile (ie: mountain)

I Heard it on NPR -- Completed
1. Listening is an act of love (StoryCorps)
2. The Abstinence Teacher (Tom Perrotta)
3. The Arsonists Guide to Writers Home in New England (Brock Clark)
4. The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick)
5. The Year of Living Biblically (A. J. Jacobs)
6. The Senator's Wife (Sue Miller)
7. Wrack & Ruin (Don Lee)
8. Not a Happy Camper (Mindy Schneider) 0verlap in humor

Fact-ion -- Completed
1. Truth and Beauty (Ann Patchett)
2. The Middle Place (Kelly Corrigan)
3. She's Gone Country (Kyle Spencer)
4. Wife of the North (Judith O'Reilly)
5. Worms Eat My Garbage (Mary Appelhof)
6. Library Management & Information Center Management
7. Dreams of my Father
8. Skinny Bitching
9. Blink

Fiction -- Completed
1. A Version of the Truth ( Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack)
2. Gardens of Water (Alan Drew)
3. Bull Island (Dorthea Frank)
4. Firefly Lane (Kristen Hannah)
5. Certain Girls (Jennifer Weiner)
6. The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)
7. Dirty Girls on Top
8. Do you Remember Me?
9. Fearless Fourteen
10. Summer Blowout
11. Bible salesman

Arm-Chair Travel -- Completed
1. Gardens of Water Overlap in Fiction
2. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
3. Richest Season
4. The Man Who Ate the World Overlap in Food
5. Wife of the North Overlap in Fact-tion
6. Where am I wearing
7. If you lived here I would know your name
8. Traveler's Tales: Food -- Overlap in Food

Creativity & Spirit -- Completed
1. Photo Freedom
2. Journal Revolution
3. Love Life
4. Live Good
5. Artist's Way - Walk in the World
6. Subversive Stitching
7. Doodle Stitching
8. Found

Food Writing (technical & essays) -- Last minute rename to WILD CARD to finish the year.
1. Feeding a yen (Calvin Trillin)
2. Eat This! 1001 Things to Eat Before you Diet!
3. Fortune Cookie Chronicles
4. Food 2.0
5. The Man Who Ate the World
6. Traveler's Tales: Food
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The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian
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Something wickedly Weird

Early Review Books -- Completed
1.Richest Season
2. 19th Wife
3. Food 2.0
4. Bull's Island
5. Dirty Girls on Top
6. Tan Lines
7. So Long at the Fair
8. Summer Blowout
9. Bible Salesman
10. Where am I Wearing
11. Something Wickedly Weird

Humor -- Completed.
1. What your poo is telling you
2. Confessions of a slacker mom
3. A La Cart
4. The Summer of Naked Swim Parties
5. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
6. When you are Engulfed in Flames
7. Lust!
8. Santa Responds: He's had enough and he's writing back

Extra Back-up Categories

Book Club Picks (from my monthly book group)
1. Drenched in light (Lisa Wingate)
2. Hanna's daughters (Marianne Fredriksson)
3. Tall Grass
4. The Beach House
5. Pillars of the Earth
6. Firefly Lane
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Young Adult
1.The Invention of Hugo Cabaret
2. The Absolutley True Story of a Part-Time Indian
3. Elijah of Buxton
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Posted by Marie at 1/11/2008 08:53:00 PM 0 comments

Kristina’s List

I would also like to participate in this reading challenge. I’ve never participated in a reading challenge before, but I would like to try it. I’m going to read all the books in English – except one category – although my mother tongue is German. Usually I just read chick-lit but I for the New Year I would like to read something more challenging.

Fantasy:

  1. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone – J. K. Rowling
  2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J. K. Rowling
  3. Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling
  4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J. K. Rowling
  5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
  6. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  7. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll
  8. The Anvil of the World – Kage Baker

Chick-lit:

  1. Can you keep a secret? – Sophie Kinsella
  2. Perfect Strangers – Robyn Sisman
  3. Playing Away – Adele Parks
  4. Front Row – Lisa Armstrong
  5. Vince & Joy – Lisa Jewell
  6. A Friend of the Family – Lisa Jewell
  7. Straight Talking – Jane Green
  8. Bookends – Jane Green

Female Authors:

  1. Act of Faith – Erica James
  2. Gardens of Delight – Erica James
  3. Quentins – Maeve Binchy
  4. The Glass Lake – Maeve Binchy
  5. Lipstick Jungle – Candace Bushnell
  6. 4 Blondes – Candace Bushnell
  7. I don’t know how she does it – Allison Pearson
  8. The good Wife – Elizabeth Buchan

Male Authors:

  1. Funny that way – Jool Perry
  2. Fierce People – Dirk Wittenborn
  3. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  4. Summer Things – Joseph Connolly
  5. The Family Way – Tony Parksons
  6. The List – Steve Martini
  7. How to be good – Nick Hornby
  8. Ash Wednesday – Ethan Hawke

Classics:

  1. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
  2. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
  3. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
  4. Little Lord Fountleroy – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  5. 20’000 Leages under the Sea – Jules Verne
  6. The Catcher in the Rye – J.P. Salinger
  7. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
  8. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë

Books in German:

  1. Lucilla – Wilkie Collins
  2. Laras letzte Party – Christopher Pike
  3. Der alte Garten – Marie Kaschnitz
  4. Small World – Martin Suter
  5. Siddharta – Hermann Hesse
  6. Die Versuchung – David Baldacci
  7. Der weisse Wolf – Käthe Recheis
  8. Louisa Elliott – Ann Victoria Roberts

Donna Leon Books:

  1. Fatal Remedies
  2. Death at la Fenice
  3. The death of Faith
  4. Acqua alta
  5. A Venetian reckoning
  6. The anonymous Venetian
  7. Death in a strange country
  8. A noble radiance

More than 6 month on my bookshelf:

  1. Song of the Cuckoo Bird – Amulya Malladi
  2. The Mineral Palace – Heidi Julants
  3. Gene – Stel Pavlou
  4. Perfect Picture – Jodi Picoult
  5. Firebird – Janice Graham
  6. The 13th Tale – Diane Setterfield
  7. Martha Peake – Patrick Mc Grath
  8. The glass Palace – Amitav Ghosh

Posted by Kristina at 1/08/2008 03:06:00 PM 0 comments

Kim P in MO books

Recommended to Me
1. Veil of Roses - Laura Fitzgerald
2. A Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flag
3. Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen
4. The Rest of Her Life - Laura Moriarty
5. Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
6. Winter Solstice - Rosamunde Pilcher
7. Little Heathens - Mildred Armstrong Kalish
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Classics
1. O Pioneers - Willa Cather
2. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
4. Persuasion - Jane Austin
5. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
6. Emma - Jane Austen
7. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
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Rereads
1. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
2. The Cheerleader - Ruth Doan MacDougall
3. Snowy - MacDougall
4. Henrietta Snow - MacDougall
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Medical(fiction or nonfiction)
1. Children's Hospital - Peggy Anderson
2. My Own Country a Doctor's story - Abraham Veiches
3. The Making of a Surgeon - William A Nolen, M.D.
4. Final Exam - Pauline W. Chen
5. Hot lights, Cold Steel - Michael J. Collins, M.D.
6. What patients Taught Me - Audrey Young, M.D.
7. Nurse - Peggy Anderson
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Non-fiction
1. Scream free Parenting - Hal Edward Runkel
2. When Duty Calls - Carol Vandesteeg
3. The Glycemic Load Diet - Rob Thompson, M.D.
4. Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World - Jill Rigby
5. America's Boy - Wade Rouse
6. Mindless Eating - Brian Wansink, Ph.D.
7. Personality Plus for Parents - Florence Liltauer
8. Healthy Anger - Bernard Golden, Ph.D.

Easy/light Reads
1. Bad Dogs Have More Fun - John Grogan
2. The Parting - Beverly Lewis
3. Walking in Circles Before Lying Down - Merrill Markoe
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Favorite Authors
1. The Husband Bench or Bev's Book - Ruth Doan MacDougall
2. Mermaids in the Basement - Michael Lee West
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Childhood Favorites
1. Little Women - Alcott
2. Laura - Donald Zochert
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Posted by Kim at 1/07/2008 04:27:00 PM 0 comments

BloggingMolly's lists

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

KathieM's 888 Challenge

Nora Roberts
1. Born in Fire
2. Born in Ice
3. Born in Shame
4. The Villa
5. Rebellion
6. Blood Brothers
7. High Noon
8. Northern Lights

Romance
1. Play Dirty - Sandra Brown
2. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
3. The Winter Lodge - Susan Wiggs
4. Shadow Dance - Julie Garwood
5. something by Barbara Taylor Bradford
6. Natural Born Charmer - Susan Elizabeth Phillips
7. Mad Dash - Patricia Gaffney
8. Susannah's Garden - Debbie Macomber

Read It Again
1. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell *
2. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon *
3. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
4. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
5. Rich Man, Poor Man - Irwin Shaw
6. Through A Glass Darkly - Karleen Koen
7. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
8.Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder

In Their Shoes
1. I Feel Bad About My Deck - Nora Ephron
2. A Pirate Looks at Fifty - Jimmy Buffet
3. Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
4. No Ordinary Time - Doris Kearns Goodwin
5. Elizabeth - J. Randy Taraborrelli
6. Ava Gardner - Lee Server
7. Ingrid - Charlotte Chandler
8. America's Queen - Sarah Bradford

English Historical Fiction
1. Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
2. I, Elizabeth - Rosalind Miles
3. Innocent Traitor - Alison Weir
4. Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman
5. The Winter Mantle - Elizabeth Chadwick
6. The Tea Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
7. The Courts of Love - Jean Plaidy
8. The Founding - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Civil War Fiction
1. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
2. These Is My Words - Nancy E. Turner
3. Sarah's Quilt - Nancy E. Turner
4. Star Garden - Nancy E. Turner
5. Widow of the South
6. Cold Mountain
7. The March - E.L. Doctorow
8. Savannah - John Jakes

Colonial Fiction
1. The Widow's War - Sally Gunning
2. The Winthrop Woman - Anya Seton
3. Into the Wilderness - Sarah Donati
4. Shadowbrook - Beverly Swerling
5. Speaks the Nightbird - Robert McCammon
6. Hearts and Bones - Margaret Lawrence
7. The Last Witchfinder - James Morrow
8. 1776 - David McCullough

Armchair Traveller
1. Italian Lover - Italy
2. Thousand Splendid Suns - Afganistan
3. Snow Flower & The Secret Fan - Japan
4.Pillars of the Earth * - England
5.Abundance - France
6. Eat, Pray, Love - India
7. The Kitchen Boy - Russia
8. Trinity - Ireland

Posted by KathieM at 12/31/2007 03:30:00 PM 0 comments

Becky's List

Becky's (my blog is Becky's Book Reviews) Triple-8 Categories

Eight books by Asian and/or Asian-American authors

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For a list of potential books please see this post.

Eight audio books.

I thought long and hard about this category. A challenge is supposed to be challenging. And since I rarely listen to audio books, I thought this might be a good chance to expand my comfort zones and grow as a listener :)

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I own a few titles--the Little House books and the Chronicles of Narnia and both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. But the library may prove invaluable here as well as iTunes podcasts of classics. For example, almost all of Jane Austen's books are available as podcasts one chapter at a time.

8 classics by women writers (any time period pre-1950)

1. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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Right now, I'm thinking Zora Neale Hurston, Jane Austen, Kate Chopin, etc. I'm sure my list will change as I explore. But I know this is something I'd like to do for 2008.

8 Award-Winning Children's Books (Caldecott, Newbery, Printz, etc.)

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For the record, honor books count as well in my book.

8 Nonfiction Books

1. The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
2. I Have Lived A Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
3. The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender
4. In My Hands: Memories of A Holocaust Rescuer
5. Alicia My Story: Alicia Appleman-Jurman
6. Night by Elie Wiesel
7. No Pretty Pictures by Anita Lobel
8. To Life by Ruth Minsky Sender

My list may change, but this is what I'm planning at the moment. No promises though. :)

8 Childhood Favorites

1. The World of Pooh by A.A. Milne (Both Winnie the Pooh and House at Pooh Corner)
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (May also read Through the Looking Glass. We'll have to see how my time goes.)
3. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
4. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
5. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
6. By The Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
7. Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
8. Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Alternates: Mandy by Julie Edwards, These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

8 by Beverly Cleary

1. Beezus and Ramona
2. Ramona the Pest
3. Ramona the Brave
4. Ramona and her Father
5. Ramona and her Mother
6. Ramona Quimby Age 8
7. Ramona Forever
8. Ramona's World

8 by L.M. Montgomery

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Posted by Becky at 12/30/2007 02:05:00 PM 1 comments

Leah's List

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

Wendy's List

Chick Lit
Remember Me Sophie Kinsella
Girl's Night In ed Lauren Henderson
Size 12 is not Fat Meg Cabot
Size 14 is not Fat Either Meg Cabot
Little Lady, Big Apple Hester Browne
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Austenland Shannon Hale
Mr Darcy Takes a Wife Linda Berdoll

Biographies/Memoirs
Beatrix Potter :A Life in Nature Linda Lear
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Bill Bryson
Glass Castle Jeannette Walls
Too Close to the Falls Catherine Gildiner
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
Animal Vegetable Miracle Barbara Kingsolver
Marley and Me John Grogan
Come Back Claire and Mia Fontaine

Christan
Mere Christianity CS Lewis
Screwtape Letters CS Lewis
Here I stand: A life of Martin Luther Roland Bainton
Passionate Housewives Desperate for God Jennie Chancey and Stacy McDonald
The Mission of Motherhood Sally Clarkson
The Ministry of Motherhood Sally Clarkson
Your Girl: Raising a Godly Daughter in an Ungodly World Vicki Courtney

Holly Black
Nixie's Song
Lucinda's Secret
The Ironwood Tree
The Wrath of Mulgrath
Ironside
The Seeing Stone
The Field Guide
Valiant

Historical Fiction
1776 David McCullough
Rhett Butler's People Donald McCraig
Outlander Diana Gabaldon
Mr Darcy Takes a Wife Linda Berdoll
The Other Boleyn Girl Phillippa Gregory
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
TBA

Books I Never Finished
Outlander Diana Gabaldon
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
100 Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Golden Compass Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman
Animal Vegetable Miracle Barbara Kingsolver

Books Made Into Movies
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Stardust Neil Gaiman
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
The Outsiders SE Hinton
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabrial Garcia Marquez

SciFi/Fantasy
American Gods Neil Gaiman
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Douglas Adams
Life, The Universe and Everything Douglas Adams
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless Douglas Adams
The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde
Lost in a Good Book Jasper Fforde

Wendy
WellManneredFrivolity

Posted by Wendy @ WMF at 12/28/2007 09:33:00 PM 0 comments

Question on Rules

Maybe I'm being too technical about this, but I'm new to the idea of reading challenges and want to be sure I understand what counts and what doesn't...

1. Do books begun in 2007 and finished in 2008 count towards the challenge?

2. When you have multiple novels in the same physical volume, do you count each work separately, or do they count as one book because they are bound together? Likewise, what about collections of plays?

Thanks in advance for clarifying this.

Posted by Anonymous at 12/28/2007 08:41:00 AM 1 comments

Krista W.'s list

Hi, everyone! I'm Krista W., I try to read 50 books a year, and here's my list for 2008:
Edit: Krista L. is smarter than me and had the bright idea to use her last initial. Just to keep things clear, I, too, will use my last initial. So that makes me Krista W.

Banned Books:
1. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
2. Lolita, Vladmir Nabokov
3. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kessy
6. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
7. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
8. Sophie's Choice, William Styron

Books By British & South African Authors
1. July's People, Nadine Gordimer
2. Age of Iron, J.m Coetzee
3. Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful, Alan Paton
4. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
5. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
6. Animal Farm, George Orwell
7. Children of Men, P.D. James
8. Atonement, Ian McEwan

Books I've Started But Not Finished:
1. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
2. Jazz, Toni Morrison
3. Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
4. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
5. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
6. Flowers in the Attic, V.C. Andrews
7. To The Lighthouse, Virgina Woolf
8. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

Oprah's Book Club Books:
1. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. Middlesex, Jeffery Eugenides
3. A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
4. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
5. The Pilot's Wife, Anita Shreve
6. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
7. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
8. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

Non-Fiction Books:
1. Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
2. Marley & Me, John Grogan
3. Mystery & Manners, Flannery O'Connor
4. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Ishmael Beah
5. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
6. Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom
7. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan
8. How To Read Literature Like A Professor, Thomas Foster

Banned Young Adult Books:
1. We All Fall Down, Robert Cormier
2. Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson
3. My Brother Sam is Dead, James Lincoln Collier
4. Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
5. How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell
6. James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
7. Killing Mr. Griffin, Lois Duncan
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

Books By My Favorite Authors:
1. Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
2. Where Are You Now?, Mary Higgins Clark
3. Small Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver
4. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
5. Mercy, Jodi Picoult
6. Jessica, Bryce Courtenay
7. Drop City, T.C. Boyle
8. Jo's Boys, Lousia May Alcott

Books From My Mom's Bookshelf:
1. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence [overlap]
2. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner [overlap]
3. How To Read Literature Like A Professor, Thomas Foster [overlap]
4. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Ishmael Beah [overlap]
5. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin [overlap]
6. East of Eden, John Steinbeck [overlap]
7. TBD
8. TBD

Posted by Krista at 12/24/2007 12:22:00 PM 0 comments

Krista L.'s Challenge List

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 ++

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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
**I own
++ I can borrow from someone
@@ I really want to own
&& Library Time

Posted by Krista Long at 12/23/2007 09:16:00 PM 0 comments

Chanticleer's List

I've picked my books for the 888 Reading Challenge and In Their Shoes Reading Challenge. The overlapping titles are in color.

Books by TARAns
1. Scream for Me, Karen Rose
2. True Pretenses, Karen Lingefelt
3. Good Girls Don't, Kelley St. John
4. Phantom Pleasures, Julie Leto
5. Kill Me Twice, Roxanne St. Claire
6. The Quest for the Holy Veil, Kimberly Llewellyn
7. The Twisted Trail, L. W. Rogers
8. Atlantis Unleashed, Alyssa Day

Memoirs, Biographies, and Autobiographies (In Their Shoes!)
1. Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual Legacy of C.S. Lewis, Terry W. Glaspey
2. Statesman and Saint: The Principled Politics of William Wilberforce, David J. Vaughan
3. Roman Lives, Plutarch
4. The Parish Papers, George MacDonald
5. Undaunted Courage, Stephen Ambrose (Lewis & Clark)
6. Stephen King, On Writing
7. Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck
8. The Pirate Hunter – The True Story of Captain Kidd, Richard Zacks

Award Winners (eight different awards)
1. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (Pulitzer)
2. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card (Nebula Award)
3. Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card (Hugo Award)
4. Bootlegger's Daughter, Margaret Maron (Agatha)
5. Lisey's Story, Stephen King (Bram Stoker)
6. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Richard and Judy Best Read Award)
7. The Devil to Pay (RITA)
8. Citizen Vince, Jess Walter (Edgar)

Fantasy/Science Fiction (including Romantic Fantasy)
1. Dark Celebration, Christine Feehan
2. The Hollow, Nora Roberts
3. Sizzle and Burn, Jayne Ann Krentz
4. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
5. Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
6. A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
7. A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin
8. A Storm of Swords, George. R. R. Martin

Religion/Philosophy/Christian Living
1. Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyon
2. Pilgrim's Regress, C. S. Lewis
3. Stepping Heavenward, Elizabeth Prentiss
4. Hind's Feet on High Places, Hannah Hurnard
5. The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence
6. Pray with Your Eyes Open, Richard Pratt
7. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, John Milton
8. The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis

Dystopias
1 Animal Farm, George Orwell
2. We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
3. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
4. 1984, George Orwell
5. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
6. The Giver, Lois Lowry
7. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
8. The Stand, Stephen King

Thrillers (Including Romantic Suspense)
1. The Last Goodbye, Reed Arvin
2. The Good Guy, Dean Koontz
3. Scream for Me, Karen Rose
4. Predatory Game, Christine Feehan
5. Shadow Dance, Julie Garwood
6. Have You Seen Her? Karen Rose
7. The Monk, Matthew Lewis
8. Shadow Music, Julie Garwood

Written before 1940
1. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939)
2. Paradise Lost (1667) and Paradise Regained (1671), John Milton
3. Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyon (1678)
4. Evelina, Frances Burney (1778)
5. The Monk, Matthew Lewis (1796)
6. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (1818)
7. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
8. The Parish Papers, George MacDonald (1867-1872)

Posted by Chanticleer at 12/22/2007 05:22:00 PM 0 comments

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