Books
Clone of Books You Should Read If You Want To Consider Yourself Well-Read
Submitted by betaylor73 on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 18:48Tags:
- The $30,000 Bequest And Other Stories by Mark Twain (1906)
- Abramham Lincoln by Benjamin Thomas (1952)
- Absalom, Absalom!
List of Books Given To Me By Mr. A. M. Siddiqui
Submitted by tittleiota on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 23:02Tags:
- 1. An Expensive Place To Die, by Len Deighton (Jonathan Cape)
- 2. Appointment With Death
- Author: Agatha Christie
- Publisher: Fontana / Collins (Glasgow, Great Britain)
- Edition: Eighth (July 1975)
- Pages: 160
- 3. Believed Violent
- Author: James Hadley Chase
- Publisher: Corgi Books, A division of Transworld Publishers Ltd (New York)
- Edition: First (1980)
- Pages: 184
- 4. Bible Basics - A Study Manual, by Duncan Heaster
- 4. Breakheart Pass
- Authro: Alistair Maclean
- Publisher: Fontana / Collins ( Glasgow, Great Britain)
- Edition: Eighth (1980)
- Pages: 192
- 5. H. M. S.
Winners of the Man Booker Award for Fiction
Submitted by bravereader on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 11:00Tags:
- 2008 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- 2007 The Gathering by Anne Enright
- 2006 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- 2005 The Sea by John Banville
- 2004 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
- 2003 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
- 2002 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- 2001 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
- 2000 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- 1999 Disgrace by J. M.
BBC- The Big Read Top 200
Submitted by adagioinb on Mon, 09/21/2009 - 19:55Tags:
- 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
- Th
NPR 100 Top 100 Beach Reads
Submitted by ncaylin1 on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 06:51- 1. The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling
- 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- 3. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
- 4. Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding
- 5. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- 6. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells
- 7. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
- 9. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
- 10. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
- 11. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
- 12. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
- 13.
Clone of National Book Award for Fiction
Submitted by ncaylin1 on Mon, 09/07/2009 - 18:56Tags:
- 2008 Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend by Peter Matthiessen
- 2007 Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson
- 2006 The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
- 2005 Europe Central by William T.
Clone of Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction
Submitted by ncaylin1 on Mon, 09/07/2009 - 18:53Tags:
- 2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- 2008 Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The by Junot Diaz
- 2007 Road, The by Cormac McCarthy
- 2006 March by Geraldine Brooks
- 2005 Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
- 2004 The Known World by Edward P.
Clone of The BBC Big Read Top 200
Submitted by ncaylin1 on Mon, 09/07/2009 - 18:48Tags:
- 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 Expectat
Clone of Books you should read if you want to consider yourself well-read
Submitted by ncaylin1 on Mon, 09/07/2009 - 18:39Tags:
- Kit Carson - John Abbott
- The King of the Mountains - Edmond About
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus
- A Death in the Family - James Agee
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
- Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Anderson
- Beowulf - Anonymous
- Bible - Anonymous
- Davy Crockett - Anonymous
- The Epic of Gilgamesh - Anonymous
- Koran - Anonymous
- Mahabharata - Anonymous
- Njal's Saga - Anonymous
- Torah - Anonymous
- Kane and Abel - Jeffery Arche
1001 Books
Submitted by ncaylin1 on Mon, 09/07/2009 - 16:51Tags:
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Saturday - Ian McEwan
- On Beauty - Zadie Smith
- Slow Man - J.M. Coetzee
- Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter manson
- The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
- Vanishing Point - David Markson
- The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
- Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair
- Drop City - T. Coraghessan Boyle
- The Colour - Rose Tremain
- Thursbitch - Alan Garner
- The Light of Day - Graham Swift
- Elizabeth Costello - J.M.
