So here it is ...a fairy short, but very good reading list.
If anyone wants to keep the list, and want it in Excel, email me and I will send it to you. I plan to include blog links for people who recommended the books in the spreadsheet as soon as I get a chance.
The list is alphabetized by Author's names.In the brackets, people who recommended each book.
1. A Reaper's Tale: The Undecided by Adam Slade (Carol Ward)
2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Carol Ward / Karin Eider)
3. The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop (Dolly Garland)
4. Anne Frank's Diary by Anne Frank (Dolly Garland)
5. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Dolly Garland)
6. The Kadin by Beatrice Small (Carol Ward)
7. The Little Country by Charles De Lint (Carol Ward)
8. Ramses Series by Christian Jaqc (Karin Eider)
9. Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers (Erica Chapman)
10. Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers (Erica Chapman)
11. One Day by David Nicholls (Sue Martin)
12. Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber (Sue Martin)
13. Christmas in Seattle by Debbie Macomber (Sue Martin)
14. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Sue Martin)
15. The Swarm by Frank Schaetzing (Karin Eider)
16. The Lacemakers of Glenmara by Heather Barbieri (Sue Martin)
17. Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling (Karin Eider / Dolly Garland)
18. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (Adam Slade / Karin Eider / Dolly Garland)
19. Black Dagger Brotherhood by J. R. Ward (Karin Eider)
20. Teacher Teacher by Jack Sheffield (Sue Martin)
21. Persuasion by Jane Austen (Dolly Garland)
22. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich (Erica Chapman)
23. Storm Front by Jim Butcher (Adam Slade)
24. Next of Kin by Joanna Trollope (Sue Martin)
25. Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer (Dolly Garland)
26. Ilfayne's Bane by Julia Knight (Adam Slade)
27. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (Karin Eider)
28. The Body Finder by Kimberly Dertin (Erica Chapman)
29. The Anita Blake Series by Laurell K. Hamilton (Kaitlyn Hall)
30. The Merry Gentry Series by Laurell K. Hamilton (Kaitlyn Hall)
31. Valerias Last Stand by March Fitten (Sue Martin)
32. The Day Job by Mark Wallington (Sue Martin)
33. The Book Thief by Markus Zusack (Dolly Garland)
34. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Sue Martin)
35. Tam Lin by Pamela Dean (Carol Ward)
36. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Karin Eider / Dolly Garland)
37. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman (Adam Slade / Dolly Garland)
38. The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore (Adam Slade)
39. Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper (Carol Ward)
40. Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer (Karin Eider)
41. The Gunslinger by Stephen King (Adam Slade)
42. On Writing by Stephen King (Carol Ward)
43. The Stand by Stephen King (Karin Eider)
44. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Erica Chapman)
45. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett (Adam Slade)
46. The Woodwife by Terry Windling (Carol Ward)
47. The Magician's Guild by Trudi Canavan (Adam Slade)
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Hi Folks,
Sorry for a bit of silence. As they say....S*** Happens!!
Anyway, so previously, I asked you to send me a list of 10 books you think everyone should read. Books that matter to you for whatever reason - because they entertained you, made you cry, made you laugh, made you think something new...whatever....it's your list....your choice.
I will be posting a consolidated list of those books on Sunday 25th of July - so if any stragglers amongst you want to send their list, please feel free. Email me the list at lostwanderer5 [at] gmail [dot] com, and I will add it.
One of my goals for 2010 is to read 75 books. Here, I shall add books as I read them. A public record of the progress, and of course to share with you what I read.
Having gone slightly mental with book buying in 2009 (okay before that too, but especially last year I think), I find myself in posession of over 100 books which I have yet to read. And no doubt I will probably be too tempted to buy more before I have read those, so really, far too much choice and hard to pick the next great novel or non-fiction as the case maybe. But there is a great satisfaction in looking at a large pile of books inviting me.
Feel free to make your comments, opinions about any you might have read. This post will be available by easy access under the "Reading" section.
BOOKS READ
- The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock - 08/01
- Life in Harem - K. Erhan Bozkurt - 09/01
- The Hand of Oberon - Roger Zelazny - 12/01
- Write the Breakout Novel - Donald Maass - 13/01*
- The Court of Chaos - Roger Zelazny - 14/01
- The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank - 20/01
- Proust was a Neuroscientist - Jonah Lehrer - 02/02
- Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg - 10/02
- Description & Setting - Ron Rozelle - 15/02
- A Writer's Diary - Virginia Woolf - 14/03
- Journal to the Self - Kathleen Adams - 16/03
- Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice - 24/03
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - 25/03
- No Second Chance - Harlan Coben - 31/03
- Gilgamesh - N. K. Sandars. translator - 13/04
- Trumps of Doom - Roger Zelazny - 22/04
- The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien - J. R. R. Tolkien - 25/04
- Getting Into Character - Brandilyn Collins - 03/05
- The Inimitable Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse - 04/05
- Thief With No Shadow - Emily Gee - 15/05
- Artemis Fowl* - Eoin Colfer - 20/05
- Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal - J. K. Rowling - 20/05
- Stargate Atlantis: Casualties of War - Elizabeth Christensen - 29/05
- Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal (audio book)* - J. K. Rowling - 15/06
- Science Fiction 101, Short Stories & Essays - Robert Silverberg - 19/06
- Journey Into Space - Toby Litt - 20/06
- Blood of Amber - Roger Zelazny - 22/06
- Sign of Chaos - Roger Zelazny - 23/06
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J. K. Rowling - 23/06
- Forbidden Fruit - From the Letters of Abelard & Heloise - 23/06
- Dispatches from the Heart: Love Letters from the Front Line - Jamie Amrbose, Editor - 24/06
- Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks - 27/06
- Nella Last's War - Nella Last - 01/07
- Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self - Joseph Galliano - 03/07
- On a Pale Horse - Piers Anthony - 12/07
- Nella Last's Peace - Nella Last - 22/07
- Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident* - Eoin Colfer - 26/07
- Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Eoin Colfer - 27/07
- Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception - Eoin Colfer - 29/07
- Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony - Eoin Colfer - 30/07
- Lord Edgware Dies - Agatha Christie - 31/07
- The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie - 02/08
- Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie - 04/08
- Curtain: Poirot's Last Case - Agatha Christie - 04/08
- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe - 12/08
- For One More Day - Mitch Albom - 13/08
- First Law Book 1: The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie - 15/08
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne - 18/08
- The Pocket Power Book of Integrity - Byrd Baggett - 20/08
- Zer to Pidha Chhe Jani Jani - Manubhai Pancholi - 22/08
- Sleeping Murder- Agatha Christie - 23/08
- The Outsider - Albert Camus - 24/08
- Love Story - Erich Segal - 24/08
- The Hitch-hiker's guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - 26/08
- The Catcher In the Rye - J. D. Salinger - 31/08
- Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman - 03/09
- N or M? - Agatha Christie - 06/09
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone* - J. K. Rowling - 08/09
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* - J. K. Rowling - 11/09
- Tempest - Jamie Debree - 12/09
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban* - J. K. Rowling - 15/09
- Self-Editing for Fiction Writers - Rennie Browne & Dave King - 18/09
- Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare - 19/09
- How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy* - Orson Scott Card - 20/09
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling - 23/09
- Writing the Breakout Novel* - Donald Maass - 25/09
- 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke - 28/09
- Execution Dock - Anne Perry - 01/10
- Naked in Death - J. D. Robb - 06/10
- The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke - 09/10
- The Door Through Space - Marion Zimmer Bradley - 13/10
- Damnation Alley - Roger Zelazny - 18/10
- Storm Front* - Jim Butcher - 21/10
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams - 24/10
- Mahatma nu ardhu ang: Kasturba - Navjeevan Prakashan Mandir - 24/10
- Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams - 26/10
- Flights of Love - Bernhard Schlink - 29/10
- The Stars my Destination - Alfred Bester - 05/11
- Three Hearts & Three Lions - Poul Anderson - 09/11
- Memory in Death - J. D. Robb - 12/11
- Princess Diaries Book 1 - Meg Cabot - 15/11
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - 16/11
- Buckingham Palace Gardens - Anne Perry - 18/11
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick - 19/11
- Ysabel - Guy Gavriel Kay - 24/11
- Superstate - Brian Aldiss - 25/11
- The Fountains of Paradise - 29/11
- The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton - 04/12
- A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle - 06/12
- Princess Diaries Take Two - Meg Cabot - 07/12
- Princess Diaries Third Time Lucky - Meg Cabot - 07/12
- The Hours - Michael Cunningham - 10/12
- The Road - Cormac McCarthy - 13/12
- Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercrombie - 17/12
- Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie - 19/12
- Fool Moon - Jim Butcher - 20/12
- Princess Diaries Mia Goes Fourth - Meg Cabot - 29/12
- Princess Diaries Give Me Five - Meg Cabot - 30/12
- Princess Diaries Sixsational - Meg Cabot - 31/12
I have this sudden urge to reorganise my books, or maybe it's just an excuse to sit between piles of books. Whatever. I am doing it. The picture is taken just now, of books resting on my living room carpet.
So then I thought of something we can share...
Ok here is the deal ...assuming you are near your book shelves (if not, walk in the vicinity of it), close your eyes. Now, pick out five books at random and tell us in the comments sections what they are. If you have the time/inclination then tell us something about those books. How much or how little is entirely your choice, otherwise just leave their names and authors. Let's share a little of our literary tastes.
I will start:
- Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott
I love this book, though I do prefer Little Women and Little Men more. In terms of classics, I think Alcott is bit like Jane Austen in that their language and their stories are accessibly and applicable to us today as they were in her days. Besides, I simply love Jo March.
- Foundation - Isaac Asimov
I enjoy reading this, though I wouldn't say I love them as a lot of people seem to. Foundation series is an interesting read, and something I wouldn't mind re-reading, but I am not a die hard fan.
- The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
This is literature at its best. Roy's poetic languages makes this one of my favourites in regards to the skill with words. The story is gripping too, but it is the language that captured me.
- The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
I only read this book a short time ago, and totally love it. The concept of the story is great, and raised a lot of questions in my mind regards to the control Henry has over his life, due to his time travelling, though he doesn't really know it. The language is simple and easy to read.
- Ship of Destiny - Robin Hobb
I haven't read this yet. This live-ship series is one of the over 100 books I have got waiting at home to be read. But I loved Hobb's Farseer Trilogy, so I have great hopes for this.
