Olive Kittredge
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Memoirs of a Geisha
My Life in France
Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Why I Hate Saturn
Sunshine
The Know It All
Kite Runner
Orlando
The Three Musketeers
Summertime
The Little Stranger
Wolf Hall
Let me know if I'm missing any or if you thought of something new (B.W., toss me some ideas!). I'll keep updating the list as we go. We should be able to start putting together the schedule and reading list soon!
K.S. also had an excellent idea for reading a beloved childhood book. Several ideas have been mentioned:
Dicey's Song
The Dark Rising
Winter of Magic's Return
Nancy Drew
Charlotte's Web
Percy Jackson series
Adventures of Captain Underpants
Watership Down
Wizard of Earthsea series
Through the Hidden Door
Summer of Monkeys
Matilda
A Wrinkle in Time
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
...and probably many others. Let me know if you have a favorite childhood book and I'll add it to the list of choices!
My favorite childhood book was Through the Hidden Door by Rosemary Wells, Summer of Monkeys by Wilson Rawls and Matilda by Roald Dahl.
ReplyDeleteI'm all for reading new books (for some reason I am not much of a re-reader), but that's just me. I see there are also several books from our list last summer that I would like to read, like The Know it All and Kite Runner.
*books were*
ReplyDeleteLots of my favorite kids books are already on there, but I also want to put in a bid for the Fantastic Mr Fox and A Wrinkle in Time.
ReplyDeleteI also want to put I a bid for the recent Booker short list. 99% of the time I *love* these books. The two that intrigue me the most from the shortlist are JM Coetzee's Summertime, and Sarah Waters's The Little Stranger. Here is a link the the Man Booker 2009 shortlist: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/thisyear/shortlist.
ReplyDeleteHilary Mantel's Wolf Hall won, which is supposed to be a great book about Henry the 8th and Cormwell and Anne Boleyn. Being historical fiction, this book may satisfy the "biography" itch too.
I just watched the film version of the Fantastic Mr. Fox, and I would love to read the original material. The movie was so much fun, and I totally recommend it!
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