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Embejo's List
Friday, February 8, 2008

Categories:

1. Children’s Favourites
2. Classics
3. Non-Fiction
4. Historical Fiction
5. Books I’ve wanted to read
6. Light Fiction/Easy to read
7. Homeschooling/Education
8. Books made into Movies
9. About or Set in Africa

Progress: 38/64



Children’s Favourites:
1. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
2. The Willoughbys - Lois Lowry
3. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
4. The Borrowers - Mary Norton
5. The Complete Tales - Beatrix Potter
6. Pollyanna - Elanor Porter
7. Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
8. Pipi Longstocking - AstridLindgren


Classics:
1. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
3. Lord of the Flies - Golding
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. 1984 - George Orwell
6. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque
7. The Catcher in the Rye - J D Sallinger
8. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
9. The Sea - John Banville


Non-Fiction:
1. Adventures of Pioneer Women in NZ
2. Five Days in London - John Lukacs
3. Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
5. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
6. Absolute Power - Ian Wishart
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Historical Fiction:
1. The Handmaid and the Carpenter - Elizabeth Berg
2. Sarah - Orson Scott Card
3. A Voice in the Wind - Francine Rivers
4. The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory
5. The Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory
6. Resistance - Owen Sheers
7. Morgan's Run - Colleen McCullough
8. Jessica - Bryce Courtenay

Books I’ve wanted to read:
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
2. The Colour Purple - Walker
3. My Left Foot - Christy Brown
4. I am David - Anne Holm
5. Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
6. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
7. The Widow and Her Hero - Thomas Keneally
8. Lies That Go Unchallenged - Charles Colson

Light/Easy Fiction:
1. The Pilot’s Wife - Anita Shreve
2. A River Runs Through it - Norman Maclean
3. Lucy Sullivan Got Married - Marian Keyes
4. Mrs Kimble - Jennifer Haigh
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Homeschooling/Education:
1. Honey for a Child’s Heart - Gladys Hunt
2. The Well Trained Mind - Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer
3. For the Children’s Sake - Susan Schaeffer Macauley
4. Dumbing us Down - John Gatto
5. Romancing Your Child's Heart - Monte Swan
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Books Into Movies:
1. Master and Commander - Patrick O’Brian
2. The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
3. The Perfect Storm - Sebastion Junger
4. Forest Gump - Winston Groom
5. Schindler’s List - Thomas Keneally
6. Corelli’s Mandolin - Loius DeBernieres (didn't finish)
7. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
8. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

About/ Set in Africa
1. Tandia - Bryce Courtenay
2. Left to Tell - Immaculee Ilibagiza
3. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier - Ishmael Beah
4. Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
5 There is no me without You - Melissa Fay Greene
6. Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
7. I Dreamed of Africa - Kuki Gallman
8. The Sound of Thunder - Wilbur Smith

Yes, I know I have 9 categories....I'm changing it as I go along. It will be settled by the end.

Posted by embejo at 2/08/2008 10:52:00 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Africa, Childhood favorites, Classics, Education, Embejo, Historical fiction, Homeschooling, light reading, Movies, Non-fiction

Sandra's choice
Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Hi here's my list finally... =)

The Sherlock Holmes Series (9 books as I want to complete my series)

1. A Study In Scarlet
2. The Signs of Four
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
4. The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
5. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
6. The Hound of the Baskervilles
7. The Valley of Fear
8. The Last Bow
9. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
2. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
3. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
4. TBC
5. TBC
6. TBC
   
7. TBC
   
8. TBC

1. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
2. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
3. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
4. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
5. Animal Farm – George Orwell
6. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
7. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
8. TBC

1. Dracula – Bram Stoker
2. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
3. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
5. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
6. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
7. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
8. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
3. Persuasion – Jane Austen
4. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
   
5. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
   
6. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
   
7. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
   
8. The Awakening – Kate Chopin

1. Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring) - J.R.R. Tolkien
   
2. Lord of the Ring (The Two Towers) - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Lord of the Ring (The Return of the King) - J.R.R. Tolkien
4. P.S I Love You - Cecilia Ahern
5. Stardust - Neil Gaiman
   
6. TBC
7. TBC
8. TBC

1. Everyone Worth Knowing - Lauren Weisberger
   
2. The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
   
3. Shopaholic Abroad - Sophie Kinsella
4. Shopaholic Ties the Knot - Sophie Kinsella
5. Shopaholic & Sister - Sophie Kinsella
6. Shopaholic & Baby - Sophie Kinsella
7. TBC
8. TBC

1. The World Is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
   
2. The Age of Turbulence - Alan Greenspan
3. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
4. TBC
5. TBC
6. TBC
7. TBC
8. TBC

Posted by Anonymous at 2/06/2008 12:53:00 PM 1 comments  

Labels: 1800s, 1900s, 19th Century Women Writers, 2000s, Chick-lit, Movies, Non-fiction, Sherlock Holmes

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