Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Book Ideas

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Related Sites Book Ideas From Linda:
  • Paris Wife, Paula McLain
  • 419, Will Ferguson
  • Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan
  • The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
  • Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • And the Mountain Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
  • Maya's Notebook, Isabelle Allende
  • The Light Between Oceans, ML Stedman
Bill Clinton recommends (summer 2017)
  • Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
  • Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert
  • House of Spies, by Daniel Silva
  • A Great Reckoning (A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel), by Louise Penny
  • The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer
  • Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman, by Itamar Rabinovich
  • Boys in the Trees: A Memoir, by Carly Simon
  • How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, by Mohsin Hamid
  • Blindsided: The True Story of One Man's Crusade Against Chemical Giant DuPont for a Boy with No Eyes, by Jim Ferraro
  • Gratitude, by Oliver Sacks
  • Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes, by Richard A. Clarke and R.P. Eddy
  • High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, by Glenn Frankel
From book club members: (With links to their online location, if available for free online.)
  • Maps of Meaning, Jordan B. Peterson
  • Golden Days, Carolyn See
  • Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, by Mark Kurlansky
  • The Fearsome Particles, Trevor Cole
  • The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers (Coleridge and cohorts in time-travel adventure)
  • To Reign in Hell, Steven Brust (about the fall of Lucifer)
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
  • The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper (link)
  • Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (link)
  • Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope (link)
  • Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth (link)
  • Private Memoirs of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg (link)
  • John Steinbeck
  • the sequel to Too Close to the Falls , Catherine Gildiner
  • a beat book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, or something like that
Links to book ideas: From Nat
    African Genesis, Robert Ardrey
  • All The Kings' Men, Robert Penn Warren
  • Of Time and the River, Thomas Wolfe
  • You Gotta Dance With Them That Brung You, Molly Ivins
  • Fridays With Red, Bob Edwards
  • Family of Spies, Pete Earley
  • First in His Class, David Maraniss 4+
  • Is Paris Burning?, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
  • Cat Stories, James Herriot
  • The Grass Widow's Tale, Ellis Peters
  • Booknotes Life Stories, Brian Lamb
  • The Climb, Anatoli Bookreev and Weston DeWalt
  • Stickin': The Case for Loyalty, James Carville
  • The Last Hurrah, Edwin O'Connor
  • Until the Last Trumpet Sounds, Gene Smith
  • Growing Up, Russell Baker
  • Spy, David Wise
  • Born This Day, Ed Morrow
  • The Love You Make, Peter Brown and Steven Gaines
  • The Bureau and the Mole, David A. Vise
  • John Adams, David McCullough
  • Thieves in High Places, Jim Hightower
  • Moneyball, Michael Lewis
  • The Beatles Come to America, Martin Goldsmith
  • Fanatics and Fools, Arianna Huffington
  • The Politics of Truth, Joseph C. Wilson, IV
  • House of Bush, House of Saud, Craig Unger 4+
  • Little House in the Ozarks, Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Ten Big Ones, Janet Evanovich 4+
  • Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
  • The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
  • Collapse, Jared Diamond
  • If Photos Could Talk, Andy Oliver
  • Come As You Are, Coates Redmon
  • One Step Behind, Henning Mankell
  • Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin
  • Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
  • Tibet, Kazuyoshi Nomachi
  • The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Frank Rich
More suggestions:
  • The Cairo Trilogy (first book is The Palace Walk)
  • Sagas of the Icelanders (Penguin edition with 17 sagas)
  • Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps, Peter Galison
Sci-fi:
  • Frederick Pohl's Gateway books
  • Illegal Alien, Robert Sawyer
  • Birthright, the book of Man, Mike Resnick
  • The Well of Souls series, Jack L Chalker
  • Beggars in Spain (trilogy), Nancy Kress
  • Xenogenesis trilogy (Lilith's Brood), Octavia Butler.
  • Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon
  • Up the Walls of the World, James Tiptree
Ruth's Top Ten Fiction
  1. Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
  2. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
  3. The Last of the Wine, Mary Renault
  4. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
  5. The Last Coin, James P. Blaylock
  6. Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler
  7. Passage, Connie Willis
  8. The Solid Mandala, Patrick White
  9. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
  10. Dust, Yael Dayan
Ruth's Top Ten Non-Fiction
  1. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso
  2. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power, Robert Caro
  3. Religion and the Decline of Magic, Keith Thomas
  4. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Harriet Jacobs
  5. The Inmates are Running the Asylum, Alan Cooper
  6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
  7. Land of Lost Content, Ian Smillie
  8. From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman
  9. A Theory of Econometrics, Anna Koutsoyiannis
  10. The New Joy of Cooking, Ethan Becker
Tom's Top Ten Non-Fiction
  1. The Making of the English Working Class, EP Thompson
  2. The Extended Phenotype, Richard Dawkins
  3. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman
  4. Micromotives and Macrobehaviour, Thomas Schelling
  5. Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett
  6. The Electronic Structure and Chemistry of Solids, P. A. Cox
  7. Protest and Survive, EP Thompson again
  8. Memory of Fire, Eduardo Galeano
  9. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
  10. Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell <\li>
Jim's Top Ten Fiction (20th century)
  1. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
  2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  3. Johnny Get Your Gun, Dalton Trumbo
  4. Either The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner or The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  5. The Eight by Neville
  6. Semi Tough, Dan Jenkins
  7. Bernard Cornwell's King Arthur trilogy
  8. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
  9. Bless the Beasts and the Children, Swarthout
  10. The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
Ruth's Top Sci-fi & Fantasy (in alphabetical order by author; one book per author)
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  • The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
  • The Last Coin, James P. Blaylock
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
  • The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner
  • To Reign in Hell, Steven Brust
  • War for the Oaks, Emma Bull
  • Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
  • Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany
  • Time Out of Joint, Philip K. Dick
  • Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
  • Red Shift, Alan Garner
  • The Rose, Charles Harness
  • Dune, Frank Herbert
  • Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress
  • Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Star Fraction, Ken MacLeod
  • A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller
  • The Condition of Muzak, Michael Moorcock
  • Ringworld, Larry Niven
  • The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
  • Pavane, Keith Roberts
  • Singularity Sky, Charles Stross
  • More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
  • Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
  • Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang, Kate Wilhelm
  • Passages, Connie Willis
  • The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
  • Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
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