Favorite Books........

[pinkgeek]

I'll start..

Old Books - Shakespeare

Antique Books - Rudyard Kipling

Contemporary Books - I'll have to think.. It's a long list..

SciFi/Fantasy - Catherynne M. Valente - amazzzzing experimental prose in her later novels.

Here's to new books and old things and everything in between..

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Agatha Christie’s Hercule Piorrot short stories
Ngaio Marsh collection
Maya Angelou
Sophie’s Choice
Memoirs of a Geisha
Dante’s Divine Comedy
Billy Wagglesticks (William Shakespeare’s) complete works and Sonnets….I’m an old romantic soul at heart, lol!
The Secret Book of Grazia Dei Rossi by Jacqueline Park
I, Mona Lisa by Jeanne Kalogridis
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex
Hinemoa (written in Te Reo Maori)
Historical fiction by Witi Tame Ihimaera (a mix of English and Te Reo Maori)
The Whale Rider
The Uncle's Story
Woman Far Walking
The Rope of Man
The Matriarch
Sky Dancer
The Dream Swimmer: Sequel to the Matriarch

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

….My list includes: The Bronte Sister, Jane Austin, Charles Dickens and many more…

[Wryly]

Old Books: Shakespeare, Jane Austen

SciFi/Fantasy: the Crown of Thorns books - although reading them all in one go probably wasn't the best idea - I'm sort of burned out now. :blink:

I'll read pretty well anything that looks interesting - history, autobiography, fiction. Kathy Reichs, Deaver, Unger.
I love the end of year lists that have reviewers favourite books - now I've got a huge list of stuff that I'll pick up at the library.

[pinkgeek]

Oh Mr. George.. How I love his work. I have stopped 3/4's of the way through his latest book because I don't want it to end!!! I'm going to be a very sad pink when I finish the last page.


SciFi/Fantasy: the Crown of Thorns books - although reading them all in one go probably wasn't the best idea - I'm sort of burned out now. :blink:

[pinkgeek]

I love Maya Angelou.. Oh I can listen to her read and read her books for hours and hours..

Interesting you mention Witi Tame Ihimaera.. On my to read list. :)

Agatha Christie’s Hercule Piorrot short stories
Ngaio Marsh collection
Maya Angelou
Sophie’s Choice
Memoirs of a Geisha
Dante’s Divine Comedy
Billy Wagglesticks (William Shakespeare’s) complete works and Sonnets….I’m an old romantic soul at heart, lol!
The Secret Book of Grazia Dei Rossi by Jacqueline Park
I, Mona Lisa by Jeanne Kalogridis
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex
Hinemoa (written in Te Reo Maori)
Historical fiction by Witi Tame Ihimaera (a mix of English and Te Reo Maori)
The Whale Rider
The Uncle's Story
Woman Far Walking
The Rope of Man
The Matriarch
Sky Dancer
The Dream Swimmer: Sequel to the Matriarch

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

….My list includes: The Bronte Sister, Jane Austin, Charles Dickens and many more…

[kittygrrl]

"Stone Butch Blues"

[Daktari]

Much by Shakespeare and Chaucer
Don Quixote - Cervantes of course
Anything Patrick Gale
Val McDermid is always a good read
A little JG Ballard
I used to read Octavia Butler and Robert Heinlein too but not anymore - I loved sci-fi once upon a time


I like Kathy Reichs too Wryly...and Nikki French.



I may be back...

[pinkgeek]

Have you read Friday by Heinlein? A long time favorite of mine..


Much by Shakespeare and Chaucer
Don Quixote - Cervantes of course
Anything Patrick Gale
Val McDermid is always a good read
A little JG Ballard
I used to read Octavia Butler and Robert Heinlein too but not anymore - I loved sci-fi once upon a time


I like Kathy Reichs too Wryly...and Nikki French.



I may be back...

[The JD]

Great topic, Pink! Here's my list.

Favorite fiction authors: Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Conner, Cormac McCarthy, Tom Robbins, Neil Gaiman

Favorite nonfiction authors: Mary Roach, Malcolm Gladwell, David Foster Wallace, David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell

Fantasy/Young Adult series: Harry Potter, The Hunger Games

Old stuff I keep rereading: Montaigne, Oscar Wilde

Recent stuff I keep rereading:
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination Elizabeth McCracken
Boys of My Youth Joann Beard
About a Mountain John D'Agata
Bluets Maggie Nelson

[1QuirkyKiwi]

I love Maya Angelou.. Oh I can listen to her read and read her books for hours and hours..

Interesting you mention Witi Tame Ihimaera.. On my to read list. :)

Witi has a classic way of weaving a story with history, yet, with a modern feel; if that makes sense?

May I ask; are you able to read Te Reo Maori? Many of his books are written with a mix of Te Reo Maori (no translation in some)and English which has put some people off and I appreciate it's not for everyone.

A little unknown fact; Witi has a nephew Gary Christie Lewis who married Lady Davina Windsor, becoming the first Maori to marry into the British Royal Family. We get everywhere! LOL! :cheesy:

[pinkgeek]

Kiwi - I muddle through about as well as any Australian can.. :)

Witi has a classic way of weaving a story with history, yet, with a modern feel; if that makes sense?

May I ask; are you able to read Te Reo Maori? Many of his books are written with a mix of Te Reo Maori (no translation in some)and English which has put some people off and I appreciate it's not for everyone.

A little unknown fact; Witi has a nephew Gary Christie Lewis who married Lady Davina Windsor, becoming the first Maori to marry into the British Royal Family. We get everywhere! LOL! :cheesy:

[pinkgeek]

Oscar, Mary Roach, David Sedaris..
This entire thread is like a love letter to my universe!

I'm so glad everyone is playing along!

Great topic, Pink! Here's my list.

Favorite fiction authors: Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Conner, Cormac McCarthy, Tom Robbins, Neil Gaiman

Favorite nonfiction authors: Mary Roach, Malcolm Gladwell, David Foster Wallace, David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell

Fantasy/Young Adult series: Harry Potter, The Hunger Games

Old stuff I keep rereading: Montainge, Oscar Wilde

Recent stuff I keep rereading:
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination Elizabeth McCracken
Boys of My Youth Joann Beard
About a Mountain John D'Agata
Bluets Maggie Nelson

[Julien]

Favorite reads:

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons


to be continued....

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Kiwi - I muddle through about as well as any Australian can.. :)

You'll be right, then, as many Te Reo Maori words will be familiar to you! :D

I read Skydancer in one evening I enjoyed the book that much, lol! :)

[pinkgeek]

In my queer art class this semester we discussed Witi Ihimaera. So beautiful..

You'll be right, then, as many Te Reo Maori words will be familiar to you! :D

I read Skydancer in one evening I enjoyed the book that much, lol! :)

[pinkgeek]

Thomas Harris - I'm reminded how much I loved the Hannibal Lector series.. :)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Thomas Harris - I'm reminded how much I loved the Hannibal Lector series.. :)

....Will say nothing about having Broad Beans (Fava Beans) for dinner tonight! *Gulps....looks nervous and slowly walks away before breaking into a run* :D

[1QuirkyKiwi]

In my queer art class this semester we discussed Witi Ihimaera. So beautiful..

Sorry, I missed this post with answering many others….Have you read many of Witi Ihimaera books?

Are his books well known Stateside, now?

[pinkgeek]

Hardly anyone knows about Witi's books. It was a project specifically about queer NZ.

Sorry, I missed this post with answering many others….Have you read many of Witi Ihimaera books?

Are his books well known Stateside, now?

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Hardly anyone knows about Witi's books. It was a project specifically about queer NZ.

Witi came out a few years ago....I remember it not going down that well!

[dark_crystal]

David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstory
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
Kushiel's Dart, by Jacqueline Carey
The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery

[pinkgeek]

The things we must not talk about...... Oh my lovely Southern Hemisphere.... We are so forward and so provincial in the same breath...

Witi came out a few years ago....I remember it not going down that well!

[1QuirkyKiwi]

The things we must not talk about...... Oh my lovely Southern Hemisphere.... We are so forward and so provincial in the same breath...

So, so true! ....It's funny how we are considered the 'New World', lol!

My ex. commented on how NZ was like stepping back in time with the standard of living not as high as Europe or the U.S. I wasn't sure how to take that....it hurt my feelings a little.

[Greco]

Great thread...here's a few of my favorite authors...just a few...

Octavia Butler Ursula Le Guin Miguel Pinero Nuyorican Poets Mary Oliver Pablo Neruda
Isabel Allende Lorca Marques Audre Lorde Paul Coelho Alice Miller Patricia Nell Warren

Haruki Murakami Viktor Frankl Fritz Perls Van Gogh Ann Frank
Amy Tan Jung Erickson and others...

enjoy the holidays, Greco

[WomenMoveMe]

Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert

We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham

Favorite authors - Joyce Carole Oates...Willa Cather...Carson McCullers...Charles Dickens...William Faulkner

[persiphone]

i was in the middle of reading:

The Universe In A Nutshell
and
The Malleus Maleficarum

before i was rudely interrupted by life

[Sparkle]

His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
The Northern Lights (The Golden Compass)
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass

The Latin American Trilogy by Louis de Bernieres
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lords
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman

Love in the Time of Cholera & One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Color Purple & Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker

Song of Solomon & Beloved by Toni Morrison

Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins

The Passion, Written on the Body, Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Art & Lies, Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Alice in Wonderland books by Carroll
Hard Times and Great Expectations by Dickens
Tess of the D'Urberville's by Hardy

Alias Grace by Margaret Attwood
The Lovely Bones & Lucky by Alice Sebold
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Forever by Peter Hamil
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Bone People by Keri Hulme
Miss Smillla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
The Millennium Triology by Steig Larrson