From Eve's Alexandria, I now want to look into the following...
A Thousand Orange Trees
The Pope's Rhinoceros
The Dream of Scipio
Cloud Atlas
Wave Theory of Angels
Music and Silence
Oscar and Lucinda
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Snow Flower's Secret Fan by Lisa See
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
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Neil Gaiman: Good Omens,Neverwhere, American Gods, Stardust, Coraline, Anansi Boys (on CD), Sandman Vol. 1
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Lost in a Good Book Jasper Fforde
Road Rage by Ruth Rendell
America's Secret War by George Friedman
Waiting for Daisy by Peggy Orenstein
Does America Need a Foreign Policy? by Henry Kissinger
Spook by Mary Roach
A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes
How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
Death at the Priory by James Ruddick
Fast Food Nation by Eric ScholsserStiff by Mary RoachThe Persian Puzzle by Kenneth Pollack
Reason for Hope by Jane GoodallA History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
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Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters by William Austen-Leigh
The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Rosen
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Wild Swans by Jun Chang
A Problem From Hell by Samantha Powers
Assassin's Gate by George Packer
The Soul of Iran by Afshin Molavi
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Joan of Arc by Pernoud and Clin
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If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif
Train to Pakistan by Kushwant Singh
Reviews by all Participants
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
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The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Wisdom of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
Rob Roy by Walter Scott
Challenge Blog
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
That Night by Alice McDermott
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Reviews by all Participants
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Neil Gaiman: Good Omens,
The Little Country by Charles de Lint
Road Rage by Ruth Rendell
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters by William Austen-Leigh
The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Rosen
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Wild Swans by Jun Chang
A Problem From Hell by Samantha Powers
Assassin's Gate by George Packer
The Soul of Iran by Afshin Molavi
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Joan of Arc by Pernoud and Clin
Sketches From a Life by George Kennan
A Cold Case by Philip Gourevitch
The Modular Brain by Richard Restak
Challenges Completed 2007
Books Read 2007
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat**** by Oliver Sacks
- Twilight**** by Stephanie Meyer
- The Small Room**** by May Sarton
- The Children of Green Knowe***** by L.M. Boston
- The Sunday Philosophy Club** by Alexander McCall Smith (150)
- Marked**** by P.C. and Kristin Cast
- The Kitchen Boy**** by Robert Alexander
- Gods in Alabama*** by Joshilyn Jackson
- The Pale Horse*** by Agatha Christie
- Tithe*** by Holly Black
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan**** by Lisa See
- They Do it With Mirrors*** by Agatha Christie
- So Many Books, So Little Time**** by Sara Nelson
- The House on Mango Street**** by Sandra Cisneros
- True Notebooks***** by Mark Salzman (140)
- Witches' Brew**** ed. by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
- The Stolen Child***** by Keith Donohue
- Lost in a Good Book***** by Jasper Fforde
- The Persian Puzzle*** by Kenneth Pollack
- The War of the Saints** by Jorge Amado
- A History of Reading**** by Alberto Manguel
- The Chocolate War** by Robert Cormier
- Stiff**** by Mary Roach
- The Last Juror*** by John Grisham (on CD)
- Embers***** by Sandor Marai (130)
- The House Next Door**** by Anne Rivers Siddons
- The Secret of Chimneys*** by Agatha Christie
- Reason for Hope**** by Jane Goodall
- Neverwhere***** by Neil Gaiman
- The Last September***** by Elizabeth Bowen
- The Murder Room**** by P.D. James (on CD)
- A Morbid Taste for Bones**** by Ellis Peters
- Fast Food Nation***** by Eric Schlosser
- The Rest Falls Away** by Collen Gleason
- Mariette in Ecstasy**** by Ron Hansen (120)
- Death at the Priory** by James Ruddick
- The Ghost Writer***** by John Harwood
- Something Wicked This Way Comes***** by Ray Bradbury
- Coraline***** by Neil Gaiman
- The Mirror Crack'd*** by Agatha Christie
- Bethlehem Road*** by Anne Perry
- The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon*** by Richard Zimler
- The Diplomat's Daughter*** by William Kinsolving
- The Book Thief***** by Markus Zusak
- How Reading Changed My Life*** by Anna Quindlen (110)
- A Gentle Madness*** by Nicolas Basbanes
- At Bertram's Hotel**** by Agatha Christie
- Spook** by Mary Roach
- Dispatches from the Edge** by Anderson Cooper (on CD)
- Does America Need a Foreign Policy?** by Henry Kissinger
- Case Histories***** by Kate Atkinson
- Waiting for Daisy*** by Peggy Orenstein
- America's Secret War***** by George Friedman
- The Scarlet Pimpernel***** by Baroness Orczy
- Candide** by Voltaire (100)
- The Witching Hour*** by Anne Rice
- The Ambassador*** by John Shaw
- The Eustace Diamonds***** by Anthony Trollope
- Justice Hall***** by Laurie King
- Delta Wedding**** by Eudora Welty
- Emma***** by Jane Austen
- The Door** by Mary Roberts Rinehard
- Bound to Please** by Michael Dirda
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone** by JK Rowling
- Cousin Bette**** by Honore de Balzac (90)
- Death in Holy Orders**** by P.D. James (on CD)
- Blink** by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Eyre Affair***** by Jasper Fforde
- The Woman in White***** by Wilkie Collins
- Dangerous Liasons*** by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- A Sense of the World*** by Jason Roberts
- The Virgin's Lover** by Philippa Gregory
- Mistress of the Art of Death*** by Ariana Franklin
- French Lessons: A Memoir**** by Alice Kaplan
- Some Danger Involved**** by Will Thomas (80)
- Heart Shaped Box***** by Joe Hill
- The Wisdom of Crowds** by James Surowiecki
- The Secret Life of Bees**** by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall**** by Anne Bronte
- The Secret History*** by Donna Tartt
- Twisted Root** by Anne Perry (on CD)
- Death at Bishop's Keep*** by Robin Paige
- Cane River**** by Lalita Tademy
- The Turn of the Screw** by Henry James
- From Doon with Death*** by Ruth Rendell (70)
- East, West**** by Salman Rushdie
- How Novels Work***** by John Mullan
- O Jerusalem**** by Laurie King
- Death on the Nile***** by Agatha Christie
- 4.50 From Paddington***** by Agatha Christie
- Everyman** by Philip Roth
- Freakonomics**** by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- Ladies of Grace Adieu***** by Susanna Clark
- Widdershins***** by Charles de Lint
- Mythago Wood** by Robert Holdstock (60)
- Fragile Things**** by Neil Gaiman
- How Soccer Explains the World*** by Franklin Foer
- Naomi**** by Junichuro Tanizaki
- A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service***
- Olympos** by Dan Simmons
- The Russia Hand*** by Strobe Talbott
- Half of a Yellow Sun***** by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Child in Time**** by Ian McEwan
- Ilium*** by Dan Simmons
- The Moor***** by Laurie R. King (50)
- The House of Spirits**** by Isabel Allende
- College Girls** by Lynne Peril
- Among Schoolchildren*** by Tracy Kidder
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil**** by John Berendt
- Cat's Cradle**** by Kurt Vonnegut
- Come as You Are**** by Coates Redmon
- The Mission Song** by John le Carre
- Away From Home*** by Lillian Carter
- The Polysyllabic Spree***** by Nick Hornby
- The Water Mirror*** (on CD) by Kai Meyer (40)
- A Certain Slant of Light*** (on CD) by Laura Whitcomb
- Waiting* by Ha Jin
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*** (on CD) by Lewis Caroll
- Abundance** (on CD) by Sena Jeter Naslund
- Virginia Woolf***** by Hermione Lee
- The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls**** by Joan Jacobs Brumber
- The Geographer's Library*** (on CD) by Jon Fasman
- Love in the Time of Cholera**** by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Night Draws Near***** by Anthony Shadid
- A Letter of Mary**** by Laurie King (30)
- Our Lady of the Forest*** (on CD) by David Guterson
- I, Coriander***** (on CD) by Sally Gardner
- Crowe's Requiem*** by Mike McCormack
- The Black Book** by Orhan Pamuk
- Palace Walk**** by Naguib Mahfouz
- Bound for Canaan**** by Fergus Bordewich
- Collapse**** by Jared Diamond
- Madame Bovary*** by Gustave Flaubert
- Norwegian Wood***** by Haruki Murakami
- A Dead Man in Istanbul*** by Michael Pearce (book on CD) (20)
- Mirror, Mirror*** by Gregory Maguire
- A Monstrous Regiment of Women**** by Laurie R. King
- How to Read a Novel** by John Sutherland
- Daisy Miller*** by Henry James
- In Cold Blood*** by Truman Capote
- The Remains of the Day***** by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Inheritance of Loss** by Kiran Desai
- Lady Audley's Secret**** by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Out of Africa***** by Isak Dinesen
- World on Fire*** by Amy Chua (10)
- Middlemarch**** by George Eliot
- Postern of Fate** by Agatha Christie
- The Moonstone*** by Wilkie Collins
- The Thirteenth Tale**** by Diane Setterfield
- Oracle Bones**** by Peter Hessler
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter* (on CD) by Kim Edwards
- The Collector*** by John Fowles
- The Thirteen Problems***** by Agatha Christie
- What is Mine*** by Anne Holt
Explanation of Ratings
You might have noticed the stars beside the titles of Books Read. This is my way of recording my feelings about the book, even if I don't have a blog entry about it.
* I regret ever having even considered reading this book.
** There were some major flaws in the book, but it had some good points as well.
*** A good read, possible had one or two really strong areas, but the rest was average.
**** Very strong book, good writing style, really enjoyed.
***** Extraordinary. I will immediately try to acquire other books by this author.
* I regret ever having even considered reading this book.
** There were some major flaws in the book, but it had some good points as well.
*** A good read, possible had one or two really strong areas, but the rest was average.
**** Very strong book, good writing style, really enjoyed.
***** Extraordinary. I will immediately try to acquire other books by this author.
1 comment:
Cloud Atlas is fun, Oscar and Lucinda is brilliant but heartbreaking. And not in a warm fuzzy way either. Perhaps chilling is a better word. Warm and fuzzy isn't a pre-requisite but I have to admit I admire Carey but don't actually like him. Interesting list!
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