bookity books list
wow, i'm just spamming LJ with lists, aren't i?
.....oh, well.
A Simple Plan, Scott Smith
Annie on My Mind (1982), Nancy Garden
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
At Swim, Two Boys
Bad Girl: Confessions of a Teenage Delinquent (2004), Abigail Vona
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978), Robin McKinley
Beijing Doll (2004), Chun Sue [book banned in China due to frank admissions about her sex life and underground punk culture]
Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
Breathe (2004), Anne-Sophie Brasme [french best-seller about a girl's dangerous obsession w/ her best friend]
Briar Rose (1993), Jane Yolen
Call of the Wild, Jack London
Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.
Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah
Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, Gail Carson Levine
Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories
Free Gift With Purchase (2006), Jean Godrey-June [beauty editor @ Lucky divulges insider beauty secrets]
Handmaid's Tale (1986), Margaret Atwood
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Am the Cheese (1977), Robert Cormier
I, Claudius, Robert Graves [roman empire]
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970), Maya Angelou
In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant
Jacob Have I Loved (1980), Katherine Paterson
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Kissing Doorknobs (1999), Terry Spencer Hesser
Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli
Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote [short stories based on author's real-life encounters]
Nothing But the Truth (1992), Ari
On My Honor, Marion Dane Bauer
Ordinary People, Judith Guest
Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Azar Nafisi
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier [romance w/ gothic twist]
Sabriel (1997), Garth Nix
Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne Porter [passenger ship en route to Germany, 1933]
Sophie's Choice, William Styron
Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
The Bell Jar (1971), Sylvia Plath
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky [read "rebellion" chapter first?]
The Chosen (1967), Chaim Potok
The Crystal Cave (1970), Mary Stewart
The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles [2 endings]
The Gift Giver, Joyce Hansen
The Giver (1994), Lois Lowry
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty
The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
Twins, Marcy Dermansky
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Z for Zacharia (1975), Robert O'Brien
Antonio's Girls, Antonio Lopez (Congreve Publishing Company, New York; copyright 1982)
Secret House: 24 Hours in the Strange and Unexpected World in Which We Spend our Nights & Days (1986), David Bodanis
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (1986), Art Spiegelman
Re-reads:
House of Stairs (1974), William Sleator
Larque on the Wing
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
The Egypt Game, Zilpha K. Snyder
The Midwife's Apprentice (1996), Karen Cushman
The Moon on a String, Tricia Springstubb
The Silver Kiss (1991), Annette Curtis Klause
YES. BOOKS. LIST. LIFE.
.....oh, well.
A Simple Plan, Scott Smith
Annie on My Mind (1982), Nancy Garden
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
At Swim, Two Boys
Bad Girl: Confessions of a Teenage Delinquent (2004), Abigail Vona
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978), Robin McKinley
Beijing Doll (2004), Chun Sue [book banned in China due to frank admissions about her sex life and underground punk culture]
Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
Breathe (2004), Anne-Sophie Brasme [french best-seller about a girl's dangerous obsession w/ her best friend]
Briar Rose (1993), Jane Yolen
Call of the Wild, Jack London
Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.
Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah
Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, Gail Carson Levine
Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories
Free Gift With Purchase (2006), Jean Godrey-June [beauty editor @ Lucky divulges insider beauty secrets]
Handmaid's Tale (1986), Margaret Atwood
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Am the Cheese (1977), Robert Cormier
I, Claudius, Robert Graves [roman empire]
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970), Maya Angelou
In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant
Jacob Have I Loved (1980), Katherine Paterson
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Kissing Doorknobs (1999), Terry Spencer Hesser
Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli
Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote [short stories based on author's real-life encounters]
Nothing But the Truth (1992), Ari
On My Honor, Marion Dane Bauer
Ordinary People, Judith Guest
Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Azar Nafisi
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier [romance w/ gothic twist]
Sabriel (1997), Garth Nix
Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne Porter [passenger ship en route to Germany, 1933]
Sophie's Choice, William Styron
Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
The Bell Jar (1971), Sylvia Plath
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky [read "rebellion" chapter first?]
The Chosen (1967), Chaim Potok
The Crystal Cave (1970), Mary Stewart
The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles [2 endings]
The Gift Giver, Joyce Hansen
The Giver (1994), Lois Lowry
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty
The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
Twins, Marcy Dermansky
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Z for Zacharia (1975), Robert O'Brien
Antonio's Girls, Antonio Lopez (Congreve Publishing Company, New York; copyright 1982)
Secret House: 24 Hours in the Strange and Unexpected World in Which We Spend our Nights & Days (1986), David Bodanis
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (1986), Art Spiegelman
Re-reads:
House of Stairs (1974), William Sleator
Larque on the Wing
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
The Egypt Game, Zilpha K. Snyder
The Midwife's Apprentice (1996), Karen Cushman
The Moon on a String, Tricia Springstubb
The Silver Kiss (1991), Annette Curtis Klause
YES. BOOKS. LIST. LIFE.