Books
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.
Clone of Clone of 50 Banned Books That Everyone Should Read
Submitted by Evalangui on Wed, 09/02/2009 - 05:01Tags:
- Protect the Children
- These books have all been at the heart of controversy over their appropriateness for children and youth to read.
Jonathan Lethem
Submitted by kaplan on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 00:55Tags:
Must-read
Highly recommended
- Fortress of Solitude (2003) (n)
- Motherless Brooklyn (1999) (n)
Recommended
- As She Climbed across the Table (1997) (n)
Worth a read
- Gun, with Occasional Music (1994) (n)
- Girl in Landscape (1998) (n)
Not bad but why don't you watch a good film instead
- The Wall of the Sky,
Book List from 2003 until 2009
Submitted by clb1020 on Fri, 08/28/2009 - 19:24Tags:
- David Copperfield-Charles Dickens
- Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
- The Metamorphosis-Franz Kafka
- 1984-George Orwell
- Lord of the Flies-William Golding
- Brothers Karamazov-Fydor Dostoevsky
- The Trial-Franz Kafka
- A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man-James Joyce
- Moby Dick-Herman Melville
- Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Salinger
- Mrs. Dalloway-Virginia Woolf
- The Jungle-Upton Sinclair
- Franny and Zooey-J.D. Salinger
- Nine Stories-J.D. Salinger
- The Importance of Being Earnest-Oscar Wilde
- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour-J.D.
Clone of "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"
Submitted by Ninjer on Thu, 08/27/2009 - 11:06Tags:
- 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.
Clone of A Clone of theduckthief's Ultimate Reading Compilation
Submitted by daphnisetchloe on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 20:47Tags:
- Beowulf
- Davy Crockett
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Wild Bill Hickock
- 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
- Mahabharata - Anonymous
- Njal's Saga - Anonymous
- Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
- Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
- The Clan of the Cave Bear -
Clone of 100 Greatest Books of All-Time (supposedly according to this list) and ones i've read
Submitted by daphnisetchloe on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 20:21Tags:
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- Beowulf by Unknown
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
- Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Don Quixote by Cervantes
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- Candide by Voltaire
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Tragedy of Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- The Lady of the Lake b
Some of the books I've read.
Submitted by bellaxitalia143 on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 18:23- 1. The Coldest Winter Ever - Sister Souljah
- 2. The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen
- 3. The Torn Skirt - Rebecca Godfrey
- 4. Girl in Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland
- 5. A Separate Peace - John Knowles
- 6. The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller
- 7. Secrets of the Model Dorm - Amanda Kerlin and Phil Oh
- 8. Posh - Lucy Jackson
- 9. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- 10. Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
- 11. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 12. The Mole People - Jennifer Toth
- 13. Why Men Love Bitches - Sherry Argov
- 14. Where are the Children? - Mary Higgins Clark
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