Books
Books read - September 2009 through August 2010
Submitted by burneyfan on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 11:59Tags:
- Selected Stories -- Alice Munro, 1996 (9/5/09)
- Underworld -- Reginald Hill, 1988 (9/7/09)
- The Eye of the World -- Robert Jordan, 1990 (10/7/09)
- Thérèse Raquin -- Émile Zola, 1867 (10/9/09)
- The Siege of Krishnapur -- J.G. Farrell, 1973 (10/14/09)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- Stieg Larsson, 2008 (10/22/09)
The Seasonal Reading Challenge: Fall 2009
Submitted by jccarter25 on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 11:40- THIS CHALLENGE WILL BEGIN ON SEPTEMBER 1ST
5 POINT TASKS
- 1. Our Children Are Our Future (Reads) - Funnily The First Letters Of The Fall Months Spell Out The Word Son (September, October, November) - So Read A Book That Has The Word Son(s), Daughter(s) (Because They're Just As Important), Kid(s), Child, or Children In The Title.
- 2. An Apple (Book) A Day Keeps The Librarians Away - September Is National Apple Month So Let's...
- • Read A Book That Has A Picture Of An Apple On The Cover.
- OR
- • A Book With The Word Apple(s) In The Title.
- 3.
100 Influential Modern Novels Written by Women (compiled by Erica Jong, 1996)
Submitted by jccarter25 on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 11:30Tags:
- Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
- Anne Rice, Interview With the Vampire
- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs.
99 Novels, Anthony Burgess
Submitted by jccarter25 on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 11:21Tags:
- Party Going, Henry Green
- After Many a Summer, Aldous Huxley
- Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
- At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien
- The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
- Strangers and Brothers (to 1970), C. P.
BBC's Big Read Top 100
Submitted by jccarter25 on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 11:19Tags:
- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- Great Expec
Time Magazine All-Time 100 Novels
Submitted by jccarter25 on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 11:16Tags:
- The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
- All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
- American Pastoral, Philip Roth
- An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara
- Are You There God?
Books That Don't Bore
Submitted by dgeiser13 on Thu, 09/03/2009 - 07:39Lev Grossman makes the case for a new wave of novelists.
Clone of "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"
Submitted by Evalangui on Wed, 09/02/2009 - 16:13Tags:
- 2000s
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Saturday – Ian McEwan
- On Beauty – Zadie Smith
- Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
- Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
- The Sea – John Banville
- The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
- The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
- The Master – Colm Tóibín
- Vanishing Point – David Markson
- The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
- Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- Drop City – T.
Clone of "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"
Submitted by Evalangui on Wed, 09/02/2009 - 16:06Tags:
- 2000s
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Saturday – Ian McEwan
- On Beauty – Zadie Smith
- Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
- Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
- The Sea – John Banville
- The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
- The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
- The Master – Colm Tóibín
- Vanishing Point – David Markson
- The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
- Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- Drop City – T.
100 most frequently challenged books
Submitted by Evalangui on Wed, 09/02/2009 - 05:01Tags:
- 1. Scary Stories (Series), by Alvin Schwartz
- 2. Daddy’s Roommate, by Michael Willhoite
- 3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
- 4. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
- 5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
- 6. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
- 7. Forever, by Judy Blume
- 8. Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
- 9. Heather Has Two Mommies, by Leslea Newman
- 10. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D.
