Aarti at Book Lust posted this meme on her blog. It started at The Library Thing. I thought it would be fun to do it here.
These are the top 106 books most often marked "unread" (or the equivalent) by LibraryThing's users. The rules are as follows: BOLD the books you have read, italicize the books you started but did not finish (DNF), *STAR* the books you've read more than once, underline books that are on your TBR pile, and cross out books that you hated.
Here's mine:
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don QuixoteMoby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: a novel
1984Angels &Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-presentCryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
*In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences*
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
The Orange Prize:
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie
Alex Awards:
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Governor General's Award:
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Man Booker Prize:
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
James Tait Black Memorial Prize:
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Pulitzer Prize:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2004 Original Voices Award:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
1995 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Possible back ups:
Spur Award:
The God of Animals By Aryn Kyle
Man BookerPrize:
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Commonwealth Writers Prize:
The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
Teddy's Challenge Progress:
Governor General's Award:1. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Pulitzer Prize:
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction:3. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Alex Award:
4. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
2004 Original Voices Award:
5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize:
6. The Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Medal:
7. Amos's Sweater by Janet Lunn
The Childrens Book Council- Children's Choice Award:
8. Finklehopper Frog Cheers by Irene Livingson
The Canadian Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Award:
1972 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Children:
MizB (also known as Jenn) over at The Book Zone has created this new challenge. It starts on June 31, 2008 and will be perpetual.
This is how MizB explains the challenge:
The challenge is to create (and read) a list of books you’ve always heard people rave about and thought you should read yourself…but always put off reading “until later”.
*You can choose books that you’ve recently heard of IF a bunch of people are raving about how good they are and how everyone should read them.
* Your list has to have at least 3 books on it. Of course, you can make it much longer than just 3 books. But, you could also just read 3. That’s up to you.
* Yes, your list of books can overlap with other challenges.
* There are no limitations on genre… books can be fiction, nonfiction, religious, secular, etc.
* Audiobooks and E-books are allowed
* Your list can change at any time, but the books you add still have to be “raved about” reads
((There may, or may not, be more rules coming. Stay tuned!))
Since I have so many book loving friends, I am contantly hearing rave reviews of books and add them to my giant TBR, so this is a great challenge for me.
Here's my started list, but I am sure I will be adding more in the future:
'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini
'The Birth House' by Ami Mckay' My Sister's Keeper' by Jodi Picoult
' Searching for the Secret River' by Kate Grenville
'Empress of Asia' by Adam Lewis Schroeder
'Bee Season' by Myla Goldberg'The Horseman's Graves' by Jacqueline BakerThe Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Fun Cat Memoir for Cat Lovers
This is Chloe Anne’s memoir, written for her by her mother Valerie Oblath.
Poor Chloe Anne, her family is moving and gave her to the Humane Society. She lives in a little cage until her new mom and author, Valerie Oblath adopts her. Chloe Anne loves her new home and cat sister, Cinders. Her new mother is very good and patient with her. Chloe Anne shares with us insights into her new family and her escapades.
This is a fun and entertaining romp with a real-life cat. However, since Chloe Anne lives with a Jewish mother, there is one chapter that makes a lot of references to Jewish Holidays and some of the customs. Some readers, who do not know much about these, may not get a few of the references. None the less, this is a great book for most cat lovers.
4/5
Thanks to Three C's Publishing for an advance copy of this book!
Note to my fellow bloggers who also reviewed this book: If you would like me to link your review at the bottom of my review, please leave a comment with the link to your review.
Feels Like a Real-Life Thriller
In a futuristic society when firefighters don’t put out fires anymore. Their job now it to create fires. When an alarm is called in, firemen gear up as they use to and speed to the scene, a house with forbidden books in it. All the books are gathered up and hosed down with not water, but kerosene, then set a blaze. Montag is one of those firemen.
This is a time when in most homes, the walls in the living room aren’t walls, their giant screen televisions. The shows on mostly comprise of nonsensical bickering, for entertainment. People are not concerned about any issues, except forbidden books. Ignorance is bliss.Susan at You Can Never Have Too Many Books
Tanabata at In Spring it is the Dawn
If you've reviewed this book, please leave a link in the comments.
This week’s theme comes from Samantha, who suggested that one week we all write about our fond memories of childhood books.
There were several different ways suggested to do this. I chose to re-read a childhood favorite and write about it.
I was the youngest of 4 children in my family. My siblings were all quite a bit older than me. I use to drive them crazy asking them to read the same book over and over to me. I must have been around 3 or 4 years old at the time. To tell the truth, I remembered the tile of this book, but I couldn't remember what it was about. LOL! I believe I had it memorized back then.
The book is Stone Soup:
While I was searching for a copy the other day at the library, I found out that is an old French Folk Tale. It has been re-written and illistrated by many different authors. The one I chose was written and illistrated by Marcia Brown.
It only took me a few minutes to read, it about three hungry soldiers who come across a village and ask the villagers if they could spare any food. The three soldiers say that they will have to make stone soup. This of course peaks the villagers curiosity. While the soldier make the soup, they con the villagers into giving them food for the soup.
It was a cute little story, and I can see how a young child would like it. It says it's for ages 4-8, but I think that the oldest child it would appeal to these days, would be perhaps 5.
My rating: 4/5
Christina from Book-a-rama gave me this award.
This is so cool but I was wondering how much free credit I get on this credit card and how I cash it in? Must be at least $5000, right? LOL!
All kidding aside, I would like to thank Christina for this honour! If you haven't been to her blog, it is worth the stop, she is an excellent blogger and I love visiting her blog. As a move novice blogger, I have learned a lot from her!
I would like to pass this award on to others, whose blogs I love:
This challenge was created by Wendy.
To see the complete details for this challenge, please see my side-bar or visit Wendy.
Mini-Challenge #6 was to Read two (2) articles from any one magazine - tell us about them.
1. In Time Magazine's issue dated April 21, 2008, The was an article about Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, titled 'A Mother's Story'.
She was born in 1942, just 5 years before Hilary Clinton was born. Her father wanted a boy and that's why her parents named her Stanley, however after enduring years of teasing, after high school, she used her middle name Ann.
She attened the University of Hawaii, where she met het first husband, Barack Obama Sr. Not long after they were married, he went back to his home country, Kenya and Ann did not follow. She filed for divorce in January 1964.
After Barack turned two, Ann returned to college where she got her bachelor's degree, which wasn't easy for a single mother on food stamps. But, she had the assistance of her parents to help raise Barack.
Back in school she met her second husband Lolo Soetro. Mother and son moved to Lolo's home country of Indonesia. There was no electricity or running water and inflation was at 600%. Barack attended a Catholic school there and Ann taught English in the U.S. Embassy. She also had a daughter, Soetoro Ng.
When Obama was 10, she sent him back to Hawaii to live with her parents where he attend an elite prep school that he's received a scholarship for. It was important to Ann that Barack get a strong education. A year later Ann returned to Hawaii and wnet back to school, where she received her Master's degree in anthropology.
In 1980 she filed for divorce. Three years later, when Barock was 14, she went back to Indonesia to do field work for her Ph.D. Barack of his own choice, remained in Hawaii. She completed her Ph.D in 1992.
Due to Ann's professional work, she left a last legacy of helping to build a microfinance program in Indonesia. She died of ovarian and uterine cancer on November 7, 1995.
2. The second article I read was titled 'The Epic Man' and was about Charlton Heston, who died on April 5th at the age of 84. As a movie star I believe he was a great, however as the President of the National Rifle Association, I was and am still totally opposed.
Mini-Challenge #12 was to Participate in a group or buddy read and discussion (this can be either a face to face book club, an on line group, or a blog/buddy read). Tell the group what you read and with whom; give us a review.
For this challenge, I read and discussed Hawaii by James A. Michener with my Classics Book Club. If you haven't already read my review, you can read it here.
Now through November 15, 2008
Thanks to Mizb17 at The Book Zone for this fun little challenge!
Here's a re-cap of the challenge:
The Dates: February 1st - May 1st, 2008
Here are the rules:
Choose 2 or more books by authors you’ve never heard of before, or who you’ve never before read - OR - Choose 2 or more books outside of your reading “comfort zone."
I chose to read two books by authors who I've never read before:
Here are the 2 books I completed for the challenge:
Charles the Bold: The Dog Years by Yves Beacuchemin
Congratulations to all of you who joined the challenge and finished!
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