Summer reading
for those of u who havent picked out ur summer reading book yet:
my friend is such a dork and spent a couple hours researching all the authors and reading about all their books. she found out which books were the best and had the best reviews and then compiled a list of them here. i guess the stars(*) represent which works are the best. have fun kiddies, hope with helps
Summer Reading
Ian McEwan:
1. Saturday
2. Atonement*
3. Enduring Love
Jonathan Franzen:
1. The Corrections**
2. How To Be Alone
3. Twenty-Seventh City
Lan Cao:
1. Monkey Bridge*
Keri Hulme:
1. The Bone People **
2. Strands
Nicholas Sparks:
1. The Notebook **
2. True Believer
3. A Walk To Remember
4. Nights in Rodanthe
5. Bend In the Road
6. Rescue
Alice Walker:
1. The Color Purple*
2. Meridian
3. Dreaded Comparison
Edwidge Danticat:
1. Gotham Writers’ Workshop Fiction Gallery
2. Dew Breaker
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
4. Krik? Krak! *
John Updike:
1. House of God *
2. Power and The Glory
3. Villages
Gregory McGuire:
1. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
2. Wicked *
3. Mirror Mirror
Chaim Potak:
1. The Chosen *
2. As A Driven Leaf
3. Davita’s Harp
Conrad Richter:
1. Light in the Forest *
2. The Town
3. Fields
Norman MacLean:
1. Young Men and Fire *
2. River Runs through it and Other Stories
Annie Proulx:
1. Bad Dirt *
2. Close Range
3. The Shipping News
Milan Kundera:
1. Unbearable Lightness of Being **
2. Ignorance
3. Book Of Laughter and Forgetting
Barbara Kingsolver:
1. The Bean Trees **
2. Poisonwood Bible
3. Prodigal Summer
4. Animal Dreams
Phillip Roth:
1. The Plot Against America *
2. Herzog
3. The Human Stain
Dorothy Allison:
1. Bastard Out of Carolina **
2. Two or Three things I know For Sure
3. Trash
Salmon Rushdie:
1. Satanic Verses *
2. Midnight’s Children
3. Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Robert Heinlein:
1. Stranger in a Strange Land *
2. Starship Troopers
3. Tunnel in the Sky
Robert Ludlum:
1. The Bourne Identity *
2. The Bourne Supremacy
3. The Bourne Ultimatum
4. Hades Factor
Sue Monk Kidd:
1. The Mermaid Chair
2. The Secret Life of Bees *
John Irving:
1. Until I find you
2. Prayer for Owen Meany
3. The Cider House Rules *
Tony Hillerman:
1. Skeleton Man *
2. Sinister Pig
3. First Eagle
Martin Cruz Smith:
1. Wolves Eat Dogs *
2. Gorky Park
3. Polar Star
4. Havana Boy
Amy Tan:
1. The Joy Luck Club *
2. The Opposite of Fate
3. The Kitchen God’s Wife
Roddy Doyle:
1. Oh, Play that Thing *
2. A Star Called Henry
Michael Ondaatje:
1. English Patient *
2. Anil’s Ghost
3. Running in the Family
Jhumpa Lahiri:
1. The Namesake
2. Interpreter of Maladies *
Margaret Atwood:
1. The Handmaid’s Tale *
2. Oryx and Crake
3. The Blind Assassin
4. Alias Grace
5. Cat’s Eye
my friend is such a dork and spent a couple hours researching all the authors and reading about all their books. she found out which books were the best and had the best reviews and then compiled a list of them here. i guess the stars(*) represent which works are the best. have fun kiddies, hope with helps
Summer Reading
Ian McEwan:
1. Saturday
2. Atonement*
3. Enduring Love
Jonathan Franzen:
1. The Corrections**
2. How To Be Alone
3. Twenty-Seventh City
Lan Cao:
1. Monkey Bridge*
Keri Hulme:
1. The Bone People **
2. Strands
Nicholas Sparks:
1. The Notebook **
2. True Believer
3. A Walk To Remember
4. Nights in Rodanthe
5. Bend In the Road
6. Rescue
Alice Walker:
1. The Color Purple*
2. Meridian
3. Dreaded Comparison
Edwidge Danticat:
1. Gotham Writers’ Workshop Fiction Gallery
2. Dew Breaker
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
4. Krik? Krak! *
John Updike:
1. House of God *
2. Power and The Glory
3. Villages
Gregory McGuire:
1. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
2. Wicked *
3. Mirror Mirror
Chaim Potak:
1. The Chosen *
2. As A Driven Leaf
3. Davita’s Harp
Conrad Richter:
1. Light in the Forest *
2. The Town
3. Fields
Norman MacLean:
1. Young Men and Fire *
2. River Runs through it and Other Stories
Annie Proulx:
1. Bad Dirt *
2. Close Range
3. The Shipping News
Milan Kundera:
1. Unbearable Lightness of Being **
2. Ignorance
3. Book Of Laughter and Forgetting
Barbara Kingsolver:
1. The Bean Trees **
2. Poisonwood Bible
3. Prodigal Summer
4. Animal Dreams
Phillip Roth:
1. The Plot Against America *
2. Herzog
3. The Human Stain
Dorothy Allison:
1. Bastard Out of Carolina **
2. Two or Three things I know For Sure
3. Trash
Salmon Rushdie:
1. Satanic Verses *
2. Midnight’s Children
3. Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Robert Heinlein:
1. Stranger in a Strange Land *
2. Starship Troopers
3. Tunnel in the Sky
Robert Ludlum:
1. The Bourne Identity *
2. The Bourne Supremacy
3. The Bourne Ultimatum
4. Hades Factor
Sue Monk Kidd:
1. The Mermaid Chair
2. The Secret Life of Bees *
John Irving:
1. Until I find you
2. Prayer for Owen Meany
3. The Cider House Rules *
Tony Hillerman:
1. Skeleton Man *
2. Sinister Pig
3. First Eagle
Martin Cruz Smith:
1. Wolves Eat Dogs *
2. Gorky Park
3. Polar Star
4. Havana Boy
Amy Tan:
1. The Joy Luck Club *
2. The Opposite of Fate
3. The Kitchen God’s Wife
Roddy Doyle:
1. Oh, Play that Thing *
2. A Star Called Henry
Michael Ondaatje:
1. English Patient *
2. Anil’s Ghost
3. Running in the Family
Jhumpa Lahiri:
1. The Namesake
2. Interpreter of Maladies *
Margaret Atwood:
1. The Handmaid’s Tale *
2. Oryx and Crake
3. The Blind Assassin
4. Alias Grace
5. Cat’s Eye