tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95394912024-02-21T00:49:47.337-08:00SpoilerThis isn't a blog in its own right. This is a place to hide comments from the real blog, Biblio File. Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-38560272698880611222007-04-21T08:56:00.000-07:002014-05-30T10:15:51.327-07:00FAQ and AboutNo one's really ever asked me a question on this blog, so this is a made up FAQ. If anyone ever gets curious, I'll revise it.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Who the heck are you?</span>My name is Jennie and I'm a branch manager at a public library in the DC metro area, but I started this blog back when I was working in cataloging for a research database. Before moving in branch management and adult services, I was a youth services librarian for 7 years. I've always been a reader. I have a degree from Grinnell College in History with an interdisciplinary concentration in Chinese Studies. My MLIS is from the University of Maryland, majoring in Archives/Record Management. I'm married to someone with an obscene number of master's degrees and a holy tolerance for the stack of books in our house. I like to read and travel and read while traveling.<br />
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I have served on the MG/YA Nonfiction Cybils judging panel in <a href="http://www.cybils.com/2008/02/the-2007-cybils.html">2007</a> and <a href="http://dadtalk.typepad.com/cybils/2009/02/2009-cybils-winners.html">2008</a>. I was on the nominating panel in <a href="http://dadtalk.typepad.com/cybils/2009-finalists-nonfiction-middle-grade-young-adult-books.html">2009</a> and <a href="http://www.cybils.com/2011-finalists-nonfiction-for-tweens-teens.html">2011</a>.<br />
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I was on the <a href="http://www.mdlib.org/divisions/csd/docs/blue09.pdf">2009 Maryland Blue Crab Award Committee</a>, which awards fiction and nonfiction books written at the early and transitional reading levels.<br />
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I was the <a href="http://www.ala.org/yalsa/nonfiction">2013 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction</a> committee.<br />
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I chaired the <a href="http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2014-outstanding-books-college-bound-and-lifelong-learners">2014 YALSA Outstanding Books for the College Bound</a> committee.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Why should I care about your reviews? or Why do you review?</span>Because I have awesome taste. Ok, you don't have to care. I review books because amongst the people who actually know me in the real world, I have a reputation for being a crazy reader. I read a lot in a wide variety of books. People started asking me for book recommendations. I started to blog about books to see if I could start or participate in a wider conversation. I post my opinions on books out there for you to take or leave.<br />
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I review because it's fun and I have a lot to say and I could talk all day about what I've read lately. If I put my thoughts here, it saves the people around me from having to listen to it all. This is not a place for professional-type reviews. When I write a professional-type review (or a professional review) I will link it here.<br />
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Also, see <a href="http://tushuguan.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-i-blog.html">why I blog</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What's your policy on reviewing free books and Advanced Reader's Copies?</span>In general, if I read it, I review it. Not necessarily right away, but eventually. There are a few exemptions. Please see my <a href="http://tushuguan2.blogspot.com/2010/02/review-policy.html">Review Policy</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What gets reviewed?</span><br />
<a href="http://tushuguan2.blogspot.com/2010/02/review-policy.html">See my Review Policy.</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><b>What's with the Amazon links?</b></span></span>I am an Amazon associate, which means if you click on one of the Amazon links on my page and buy something (Even if it's not what you clicked on) then I get a percentage of the sale (how big of a percentage depends on how many items were purchased in a month.)<br />
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I do this because I like to buy books and I can't always buy books, because the mortgage also demands paying, and my belly frequently demands food. So, if I can make a little money off this blog (and trust me, I'm not making much) that means I can buy more books. Which I will then read, and review, all for your pleasure.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Have you ever read a book you <span style="font-style: italic;">didn't</span> like?</span></span></span>This is a real question from one of my coworkers at booktalk training where I kept saying, "oooo! I love that book!" I do like most of what I read, but not everything. There are negative reviews here.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Why review books you didn't like?</span></span></span></span>To tell people not to waste their time, to offer a different opinion if everyone else in the universe loved it. Because I want to review everything I read, and I don't like everything.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Why read books you don't like?</span></span></span></span>Sometimes, I have to for work. Sometimes, they're like car crashes and I can't turn away from the ickyness.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">How can I contact you?</span>You can email me at kidsilkhaze at yahoo dot com. This is also the email address you can usually find me in other places like <a href="http://www.librarything.com/">LibraryThing</a>.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />last updated 5/30/2014</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-19587828121392093952012-10-15T07:55:00.003-07:002012-10-15T07:55:40.127-07:00Scrapbook of Frankie PrattSo, I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that she ends up back in Cornish and getting married.
I mean, I really like Will (much more than Oliver [even if he weren't gay] or James) and she's finding success as an actual writer. When she was in New York and Paris, she was mostly editing or turning out schlock, not working on her own stuff. I think Will appreciates her for who she is and knows what he's getting into, but...
I don't know. It's very mixed.Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-45126516012991539222010-02-08T09:21:00.001-08:002012-03-31T11:33:19.406-07:00Review PolicyBiblio File is meant to be a record of "everything" I read.<br />
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"Everything" is in quotation marks because fiction must be at least 100 pages before I review it. There may be a very few exceptions made for books that I love and need to talk about or books that I am reviewing or thinking critically about for other sources (such as a class).<br />
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If a nonfiction title is over 100 pages, it automatically gets reviewed. Because nonfiction for middle grade readers is often capped at 96 pages, the 100 page break is much more fluid for nonfiction. I will review nonfiction that is under 100 pages if I absolutely love it, it is seriously awesome, or seriously flawed.<br />
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<b>3/31/2012 UPDATE: I am currently serving on YALSA's Award for Excellence in Nonfiction committee. The policy says <i><span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">Committee appointees must not discuss books on social media that are eligible for their award in any way that could lead to a conflict or lack of confidentiality in regards to their committee. Mentioning the existence of a book is fine. Discussing its merits as pertains to the award criteria is not.</span></i> Yes, I could review books that are eligible as long as I divorce them from the committee and... that sounds like a lot of work. Rest assured, I'm taking <i>very</i> good notes and writing reviews, but you won't see anything until February 2013 and then, maybe not everything. I'll decide then.</b><br />
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While I occasionally may talk about something else that excites me, I only review things I read here. No audio books, movies, tv shows, etc.<br />
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I do accept review copies but please, please, please contact me first: kidsilkhaze <span style="font-style: italic;">at</span> yahoo <span style="font-style: italic;">dot</span> com<br />
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I have a severe backlog of review copies and many other books I have to read for work and other places, as well as all the books that catch my eye at the library and book store. I cannot accept all books. Sometimes I can't accept a book because of other commitments, I will also not accept a book that I do not want to read. If you have a day you would like the review to post by, please ask me. I will try to accommodate you, but I make no promises. If you contact me and I say "yes" to a book, I will attempt to have it read and reviewed within 3 months or by the book's publication date, whichever is later. However, I make no promises.<br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Things I like in books (a very, very, very short list):</span></b><br />
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Fairy tale retellings<br />
WWI<br />
Fiction about China<br />
Nonfiction about China<br />
Books that explore the changing notions of British identity<br />
Funny books about girls<br />
Teenage spies<br />
History<br />
Historical Fiction<br />
Books told in stuff and other non-conventional story-telling methods<br />
Explorations of faith (all faiths!) that don't try to convert the reader<br />
A good author note<br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Things I don't like in books:</span></b><br />
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Talking animals (if it's an enchanted frog, ok. A wise spider? Ergh.)<br />
Self-help books<br />
Not citing sources in nonfiction<br />
Horses (I have never liked horse books)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I do not review picture books.</span></span> </b>Picture books are great and I love 'em and use 'em all the time at work, but I do not review them. Partly because one must draw the line somewhere, mainly because I can't talk about art intelligently.Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-7959590228624905692012-03-27T14:45:00.001-07:002012-03-27T14:45:55.485-07:00Out of Sight, Out of TimeI like that the Circle was after Cammie because she saw some information.
She's not some secret key to everything.
She's not even more special than she already is.
She just knows something that she happened to oversee once. That's it.
It's a bit refreshing.Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-62374019990340834602011-08-24T19:59:00.000-07:002011-08-24T19:59:32.707-07:00Last Little Blue Envelope<br />
<div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.22233783616684377" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ok, it was painfully obvious that with Keith paired up with Ellis, Ginny would end up with Oliver. Oliver the black-mailer. Oliver the fuckwad. Oliver who doesn't have ANYTHING to recommend him. Yes, he has the sob story at the end of the book, but NO. He sucks in a million ways and if you want me to believe him as a romantic figure, then you have to prove it. Johnson shows the growing attraction, but never sold it. I never fully believed in it, so when Oliver has a perfectly good reason for his douche-bag actions* and they kiss, all I could do was throw the book across the room. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fact that Ginny falls for him and his stupid act makes me really dislike Ginny. It ruined this book and the last book for me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*And you know what? THAT'S NOT A GOOD REASON. You can work full time and go to uni part time. Uni fees for full time are only 3000GBP a year no matter where you go. They have student loans. You don't need to blackmail a girl out of her aunt's artwork (which, frankly, I think Ginny should have kept for herself instead of selling it and I think she wanted to.) BUT NO! </span></div>Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-8123526047343082102011-03-22T17:14:00.000-07:002011-03-22T17:14:12.747-07:00Invisible ThingsSERIOUSLY, WTF?! All of a sudden Sophie doesn't give a shit about ANYTHING because yay! Mikael's back? When did Sophie, smart brave kickass Sophie turn into Bella?! And we no longer care about Elsa's blackmailing or the war or the bomb or how CREEPTASTIC floating Nobel is? NO! Snow Queen gave back Mikael and all is well because I'm in lurve and who the hell cares if the world ends tomorrow. LURVE! Puke. But even if we're going to go with that, smooch smooch THE END. Who cares that they're still in the creepy ice palace? It could use another page or two. The end just seemed so rushed and not at all in line with ANYTHING else going on. It would have been a better ending if Sophie woke up and the entire thing was a dream brought on by a wacky history assignment.Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-38163080860620458202009-11-29T18:07:00.000-08:002010-09-19T16:56:08.249-07:00Support Your Local Library Challenge!--COMPLETE!100 Library Books Checked Out and Read in 2010? Can do! Here's the list:<br />
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1. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse<br />
2. Splendor (The Luxe) by Anna Godberson<br />
3. The Norman Conquest of England by Janice Hamilton<br />
4. Stitches by David Small<br />
5. The Good Neighbors: Kith by Holly Black<br />
6. Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman<br />
7. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene<br />
8. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie<br />
9. Good Neighbors--Kith by Holly Black<br />
10. Boys Are Dogs by Leslie Margolis<br />
11. Confetti Girl by Diana Lopez<br />
12. Love that Dog by Sharon Creech<br />
13. Hate that Cat by Sharon Creech<br />
14. The Skin I'm in by Sharon Flake<br />
15. Dinosaur Mummies by Kelly Milner Halls<br />
16. Tales of Cryptids by Kelly Milner Halls<br />
17. Wild Horses by Kelly Milner Halls<br />
18. Going Bovine by Libba Bray<br />
19. Samurai Shortstop by Alan Gratz<br />
20. Jimmy's Stars by Mary Ann Rodman<br />
21. Brooklyn Nine by Alan Gratz<br />
22. Albino Animals by Kelly Milner Halls<br />
23. Wild Dogs by Kelly Milner Halls<br />
24. Target (Rebel Force) by Alex Wheeler<br />
25. Hostage (Rebel Force) by Alex Wheeler<br />
26. Renegade (Rebel Force) by Alex Wheeler<br />
27. Ash by Malinda Lo<br />
28. Fat Cat by Robin Brande<br />
29. My New Best Friend by Julie Bowe<br />
30. Smile by Raina Telegemeier<br />
31. Anything by Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin<br />
32. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick<br />
33. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly<br />
34. The Secret of the Yellow Death by Suzanne Jurmain<br />
35. Country Driving by Peter Hessler<br />
36. Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova<br />
37. An American Plague by Jim Murphy<br />
38. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming<br />
39. Soulless by Gail Carriger<br />
40. Blameless by Gail Carriger<br />
41. Brand New School, Brave New Ruby (Ruby and the Booker Boys) by Derrick Barnes<br />
42. Trivia Queen, Third Grade Supreme (Ruby and the Booker Boys) by Derrick Barnes<br />
43. Gone by Lisa McMann<br />
44. Crossing Stones by Helen Frost<br />
45. Eleven by Lauren Myracle <br />
46. Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez<br />
47. Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelen<br />
48. Shooting the Moon by France O'Roark Dowell<br />
49. Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith<br />
50. Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass<br />
51. Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman<br />
52. The Babysitter's Club: The Summer Before by Ann M. Martin<br />
53. Double Crossing by Eve Tal<br />
54. Diamond Willow by Helen Frost<br />
55. Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier<br />
56. Firefight (Star Wars Rebel Force) by Alex Wheeler<br />
57. Trapped (Star Wars Rebel Force) by Alex Wheeler<br />
58. Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix<br />
59. One Crazy Summer by Rita Garcia-William<br />
60. Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber<br />
61. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers<br />
62. Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson<br />
63. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by Jone le Carre<br />
64. Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher<br />
65. Impossible by Nancy Werlin<br />
66. If I Stay by Gayle Forman<br />
67. NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue and Defense Society by Michael Buckley<br />
68. Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder by Jo Nesbo<br />
69. Popularity Papers by Amy Ignatow<br />
70. Countdown by Deborah Wiles<br />
71. Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith<br />
72. Jumped by Rita Garcia-Williams<br />
73. Lockdown (Escape from Furnace) by Alexander Gordon Smith<br />
74. Flash Burnout by LK Madigan<br />
75. Up Over Down Under (SASS) by Micol Ostow and Noah Harlan<br />
76. So Punk Rock by Micol Ostow<br />
77. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan<br />
78. The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan<br />
79. Nancy Drew: The Clue in the Diary by Carolyn Keene<br />
80. Alibi Junior High by Greg Logsted<br />
81. Coven of Witches by Joseph Delaney<br />
82. I Kissed a Zombie (and I Liked it) by Adam Selzer<br />
83. Saving the Baghdad Zoo by Kelly Milner Halls and William Sumner<br />
84. Alcatraz vs. the Knights of Crystallia by Brandon Sanderson<br />
85. Thank you, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse<br />
86. Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time by Lisa Yee<br />
87. Legend of Spud Murphy by Eoin Colfer<br />
88. Legend of Captain's Crow Teeth by Eoin Colfer<br />
89. Hound of Baskervilles Sir Conan Doyle<br />
90. Age 14 by Geert Spillebeen<br />
91. Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall<br />
92. Drita, My Homegirl by Jenny Lombard<br />
93. Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus by RL LeFevers<br />
94. Spy in the House by YS Lee<br />
95. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick<br />
96. Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh<br />
97. Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell<br />
98. Boom by Mark Haddon<br />
99. Strange Case of the Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger<br />
100. Griff Carver, Hallway Patrol by Jim KriegJenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-43775659504554639862009-11-29T18:10:00.002-08:002010-09-19T16:52:04.340-07:00Young Adult Reader ChallengeCan I read 75 YA books in 2010? Totally. Here's the list:<br />
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</div><div>1. Splendor (The Luxe) by Anna Godberson<br />
2. The Good Neighbors--Kith by Holly Black<br />
3. Lost by Jacqueline Davies<br />
4. ArchEnemy by Frank Beddor<br />
5. The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake<br />
6. On Pointe by Lorie Ann Grover<br />
7. Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett<br />
8. Going Bovine by Libba Bray<br />
9. Samurai Shortstop by Alan Gratz<br />
10. Brookyln Nine by Alan Gratz<br />
11. Ash by Malinda Lo<br />
12. Fat Cat by Robin Brande<br />
13. Saving Maddie by Varian Johnson<br />
14. Gone by Lisa McMann<br />
15. Crossing Stones by Helen Frost<br />
16. Slinging the Bling (US title: Posh and Prejudice) by Grace Dent<br />
17. Runaway by Meg Cabot<br />
18. Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman<br />
19. Double Crossing by Eve Tal<br />
20. Just Ella by Margaret Petterson Haddix<br />
21. Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon<br />
22. Still Sucks to be Me by Kimberly Pauley<br />
23. No and Me by Delphine de Vigan<br />
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers<br />
25. Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson<br />
26. Impossible by Nancy Werlin<br />
27. If I Stay by Gayle Forman<br />
28. Fly Girl by Sherri L. Smith<br />
29. Jumped by Rita-Garcia-William<br />
30. Lockdown (Escape from Furnace) by Alexander Gordon Smith<br />
31. Flash Burnout by LK Madigan<br />
32. Up Over Down Under (SASS) by Micol Ostow and Noah Harlan<br />
33. Keesha's House by Helen Frost<br />
34. Ghosts of Ashbury High by Jaclyn Moriarty<br />
35. So Punk Rock by Micol Ostow<br />
36. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan<br />
37. Alibi Junior High by Greg Logsted<br />
38. I Kissed a Zombie (And I Liked It) by Adam Selzer<br />
39. Age 14 by Geert Spillebeen<br />
40. Only the Good Spy Young by Ally Carter<br />
41. Spy in the House by YS Lee<br />
42. Guitar Boy by MJ Auch<br />
43. Zombies vs. Unicorns ed Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier<br />
44. Night Tourist by Kathy Marsh<br />
45. Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell<br />
46. Never Cry Werewolf by Heather Davis<br />
47. Along the River by Adeline Yen Mah<br />
48. Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan<br />
49. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins<br />
50. Psych Major Syndrome by Alicia Thompson<br />
51. Palace of Mirrors by Margaret Peterson Haddix<br />
52. Dead is just a Rumor by Marlene Perez<br />
53. Jane by April Lindner<br />
54. Cardturner by Louis Sachar<br />
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</div>Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-1006645105622893752010-01-03T17:17:00.000-08:002010-09-19T16:48:25.622-07:00TBR LIST1. Woman from Shanghai<br />
<div>2. Wicked</div><div>3. War and Peace</div><div>4. Too Cool for School</div><div>5. United States of Arugula</div><div>6. Spud</div><div>7. Ten Things I Hate About Me</div><div>8. Secret Society Girl</div><div>9. Shades of Grey</div><div>10. Sky Burial</div><div>11. Pledged</div><div>12. Possession</div><div><br />
</div><div>Alternates:</div><div><br />
</div><div>1. River Town</div><div>2. Script and Scribble</div><div>3. The Orientalist</div><div><strike>4. Peter and Max</strike></div><div>5. Mango Shaped Space</div><div>6. The Market</div><div>7. Last Chinese Chef</div><div>8. The Host</div><div>9. Inheritance</div><div>10. General Winston's Daughter</div><div>11. Hat Full of Sky</div><div>12. Girl from the Golden Horn</div><div><br />
</div>Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-31115098758081667882010-01-03T17:25:00.001-08:002010-09-19T16:47:02.252-07:00A-Z ChallengeThe Books:<br />
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</div><div>A-- ArchEnemy</div><div><br />
</div><div>B-- Boys are Dogs</div><div><br />
</div><div>C-- Cold Comfort Farm</div><div><br />
</div><div>D-- Dinosaur Mummies</div><div><br />
</div><div>E-- The End of the Affair</div><div><br />
</div><div>F--Fat Cat</div><div><br />
</div><div>G-- Great Fables Crossover</div><div><br />
</div><div>H--Haunted (Lady Grace Mysteries)</div><div><br />
</div><div>I--Insatiable</div><div><br />
</div><div>J-- Jimmy's Stars</div><div><br />
</div><div>K--Kith (The Good Neighbors)</div><div><br />
</div><div>L--The London Eye Mystery</div><div><br />
</div><div>M--The Murder of Roger Ackroyd</div><div><br />
</div><div>N--The Norman Conquest of England</div><div><br />
</div><div>O--Out of the Dust</div><div><br />
</div><div>P-- Paris Pan Takes the Dare</div><div><br />
</div><div>Q</div><div><br />
</div><div>R--Renegade (Rebel Force)</div><div><br />
</div><div>S--Splendor (The Luxe)</div><div><br />
</div><div>T-- Tales of Cryptids</div><div><br />
</div><div>U--Up Down Over Under</div><div><br />
</div><div>V</div><div><br />
</div><div>W-- Wild Things</div><div><br />
</div><div>X</div><div><br />
</div><div>Y-- Year of the Tiger</div><div><br />
</div><div>Z--Zombies vs Unicorns</div><div><br />
</div><div>The Authors:</div><div><br />
</div><div>A--Alvarez, Julia</div><div><br />
</div><div>B-- Berlin, Eric</div><div><br />
</div><div>C-- Creech, Sharon</div><div><br />
</div><div>D--Davies, Jacqueline</div><div><br />
</div><div>E--Ellsworth, Loretta</div><div><br />
</div><div>F-- Flake, Sharon</div><div><br />
</div><div>G--Gaiman, Neil</div><div><br />
</div><div>H-- Halls, Kelly Milner</div><div><br />
</div><div>I--Ignatow, Amy</div><div><br />
</div><div>J-- Jacobs, AJ</div><div><br />
</div><div>K--Kelly, Jacqueline</div><div><br />
</div><div>L-- Lopez, Diana</div><div><br />
</div><div>M--Murphy, Jim</div><div><br />
</div><div>N--Nesbo, Jo</div><div><br />
</div><div>O--Ostow, Micol</div><div><br />
</div><div>P-- Pratchett, Terry</div><div><br />
</div><div>Q</div><div><br />
</div><div>R-- Riordan, Rick</div><div><br />
</div><div>S--Small, David</div><div><br />
</div><div>T--Telegemeier, Raina</div><div><br />
</div><div>U</div><div><br />
</div><div>V--Venkatraman, Padma</div><div><br />
</div><div>W--Wheeler, Alex</div><div><br />
</div><div>X</div><div><br />
</div><div>Y-- Yee, Lisa</div><div><br />
</div><div>Z</div>Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-18469734869691669062010-08-24T15:08:00.000-07:002010-08-24T15:08:21.295-07:00Rise of the Huntress-- SpoilersSo... on page 373, Tom shouts out "There's darkness inside me, too!... I can match <i>anything</i> you do. I'm the hunter, not the hunted!"<br />
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But... the title is Rise of the HuntRESS. Tom's not a huntress. Initially, I though the title referred to Bony Lizzie, but we've killed her off, so I'm thinking that the Huntress has to be Alice. Is anyone with me on this? Or am I totally off base.<br />
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Also, I'm excited for Ireland. I want to see more of the Morrigan and the Celtic witches. AND I hope nothing happened with Grimalkin-- I want her back because she's awesome.Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-51376185972045412232010-08-03T06:35:00.000-07:002010-08-03T06:35:17.688-07:00If I Stay-- Spoilers1. The scene where her grandpa is at her bedside <br />
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<blockquote>"It's okay," he tells me. "If you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. <i>I</i> want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life." His voice cracks with emotion. He stops, clears his throat, takes a breath, and continues. "But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting."</blockquote><br />
2. When Kim is at her bedside: <br />
<blockquote>"I do have a point to all this," she continues. "There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family."<br />
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She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. <i>"You still have a family,"</i> she whispers.</blockquote>Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-79972071827666447722010-04-25T18:34:00.001-07:002010-04-25T18:34:57.855-07:00Every Soul a Star SPOILERSOk, so Bree being a secret geek was a little... convenient. Bree was so well drawn throughout the rest of the book this was just a little too easy. Especially because I think Bree could have done a lot with the campground-- there are hot springs! It wouldn't be that hard to do some sort of Spa as one of the Unusuals. It would draw people to the camp and would use Bree's talents at what she likes. Ah well.Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-52948818674765256362010-04-16T09:57:00.001-07:002010-04-16T09:57:28.794-07:00Crossing Stones SPOILERIt's "Staring at Me" on page 78. Not only do I love the actual holes in this poem and how loud those blank spaces are, how much they say with their nothingness, but when I first read this, I thought Ollie was lying on a battlefield, dying, then near the end, you get the first full line, the first full thought, and it's the nurse's voice saying <i>That's right--you're getting better. At least not any</i> and it's a relief because you know he's alive and it's a relief because it's a full line and eases the tension and discomfort of the poem, and it just works on so many levels.Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-49314836926065391462010-03-21T13:58:00.000-07:002010-03-21T13:59:10.306-07:00Going Bovine SPOILERS!You know how much I love a bittersweet, realistic ending. Cam dying at the end is the type of ending I like in books and usually want. BUT NOT THIS TIME. I wanted him to sit up and be well and live happily ever after. I wanted the trip to be real. Usually the sadness of life is perfect literature for me, but oh, I was so gutted when I got the ending I usually crave.Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-47330096724625762222009-10-20T15:33:00.000-07:002010-02-08T09:20:06.320-08:00Disclosure Information<div>1. If the book came from a publisher for this blog, I <i>always</i> disclose that, whether or not I keep the book. This is not a change in policy at all, I'm just reiterating it.</div><div><br /></div><div>2. If I have a link to Amazon, and you click on that link and purchase <i>anything</i> then I get a percentage of the sale. How big of a percentage depends on how many items are purchased through my blog per month. I do this because as a blog reader, I want easy access to information about the book and maybe purchasing info if the book sounds good. It's also one of the easiest ways for people who enjoy my blog to support it. It's not a huge money maker for me, (in the summer of 2009, I made enough money to buy one CD.) Sometimes, if a book is not available through Amazon, I will link to another place to buy it. Usually, it will be The Book Depository. At this point, I have no affiliation with the Book Depository, except being a very satisfied customer. One again, not a change in policy at all, just a reiteration.</div><br />3. I will now be disclosing where EVERY book I read/review comes from. After every review, it says <span style="font-weight: bold;">Book Provided By... </span><br /><div><br /></div><div><b>My Wallet</b>: This is a book I (or Dan) purchased and own. Variations on this might include <span style="font-weight: bold;">My Bookshelf</span> which is a book that's been sitting on my shelves so long I don't remember where it came from, Bookmooch which is a book I mooched, so I own it, but didn't actually pay for it or I might list the name of a very nice person who gave me the book as a present for my birthday/holidays/etc. Such people are disinterested parties.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;">My Local Library</span>: A book I checked out from the library, either the system I work in or the one I live in. </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;">The publisher/author/publicist for ____ consideration</span>: An ARC or finished copy of a book provided by the author or publisher or another party for the express purpose of review in this blog OR in another medium, such as LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program, which I am also a member of. If it says <b>at my request<i> </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">that means I approached the sending party instead of them approaching me. (If a someone says "are you interested in any of these books" then they send me the books I request, that will not be labeled as "at my request." If an author says "I have X copies of my new book for book bloggers and I say "ooo! Me!" or if I write to a publisher and say "I would like to review X book if you have any copies available" then they'll be labeled as "at my request.") I also say if it's for review/Cybils/other consideration--so, why they sent me the book.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Updated 2/8/2010</span><br /></span></b></div>Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-61024727286732864662010-01-06T18:33:00.000-08:002010-01-06T18:35:32.300-08:00Melissa de la Cruz bonus question<i>Why do vampires and werewolves go together so well?</i><br /> <br />I think it's just fun to have more than one supernatural creature, and while vampires stand in for sexy fun, the werewolves are about beastly fun. They make a great comparison, since vampires are supposed to be so inhumanly sophisticated, while the wolves appeal to our animal nature—they're out of control, and you know, furry. Furry is always fun.Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-67272507090112962672009-10-02T07:53:00.001-07:002009-10-02T07:53:53.356-07:00Everafter WarOMG! Remember when I said the fact that Bunny's hand GLOWED RED on Mirror meant something. IT TOTALLY DOES! ACK! And poor poor Briar Rose. :(Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-50729911541612553102009-09-30T20:33:00.000-07:002009-09-30T20:34:06.324-07:00Tender Morsels<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DUDE. LIGA GOT SCREWED (again!). Ok, while Davit's choice might make sense given the time-slip, DUDE. I'm a big fan of not-happy-but-realistic endings but WTF was that?!</span></div>Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-64731684263880662942008-12-28T16:37:00.000-08:002009-08-22T09:57:18.480-07:002009 ListWell, last year I made a list of books that I owned and hadn't read, or that Dan owned and I WANTED to read. I wanted to read 50 by the end of the year. I read... um... 16. Pathetic.<br /><br />But! Let's try again. (YES! I know I messed up the numbering, but I think I messed it up enough ways that it all evens out in the end.) Also, on 3/4 I deleted 2 titles (Modern China: A Very Short Introduction and Rickshaw) because I've already read them so they should never have been put on the list in the first place!<br /><br />Read so far: 15<br /><br />1<i> The 100-Year-Old Secret (The Sherlock Files)</i> Tracy Barrett<br />2<i> 1421: The Year China Discovered America</i> Gavin Menzies<br />3<i> 3 KINGDOMS</i> Moss Roberts<br />4<i> 79 Short Essays on Design</i> Michael Bierut<br />5<i> Abortion Under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice</i><br />6<i> The Adoration of Jenna Fox</i> Mary E. Pearson<br />7<i> The Adventures of Short Stubbly Brownbeard</i> Alan J Levine<br />8<i> Alas, Babylon</i> Pat Frank<br />9 <i>Aloft</i> Chang-Rae Lee<br />10 <i>Amalee</i> Dar Williams<br />11<i> Anatomy of a Boyfriend</i> Daria Snadowsky<br />12<i> The Annotated Secret Garden</i> FH Burnett<br />13<i> The Arthritis Handbook: The Essential Guide to a Pain-Free, Drug-Free Life</i> Grant Cooper<br />14<i> Asleep</i> Banana Yoshimoto<br /><strike>15<i> The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation)</i> M.T. Anderson</strike><br />16<i> Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Edition)</i> Ayn Rand<br />17<i> Auntie Mame : An Irreverent Escapade</i> Patrick Dennis<br />18<i> Aurelie: A Faerie Tale</i> Heather Tomlinson<br />19<i> Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (Tales of a New Jerusalem)</i> David Kynaston<br />20<i> Autobiography of a Geisha</i> Sayo Masuda<br />21<i> Azalea Mountain : a modern revolutionary Peking opera : September 1973 script of the Peking Opera Troupe of Peking</i> Shu-yuan Wang<br />22<i> Azarel: A Novel</i> Karoly Pap<br />23<i> Babe: The Gallant Pig (Babe)</i> Dick King-Smith<br />24<i> The Ballet Family</i> Jean (Mabel Esther Allen) Estoril<br />25<i> Ballet Family Again</i> Jean Estoril<br />26<i> Ballet Shoes</i> Noel Streatfeild<br />27<i> The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears</i> Dinaw Mengestu<br />28<i> Becoming Madame Mao</i> ANCHEE MIN<br />29<i> The Bell Jar</i> Sylvia Plath<br />30<i> Beneath the Red Banner (Panda books)</i> Lao She<br />31<i> Betsy-Tacy (Betsy and Tacy Books)</i> Maud Hart Lovelace<br />32<i> The Binding Chair: or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society</i> Kathryn Harrison<br />33<i> Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob</i> Dick Lehr<br />34<i> Black Snow</i> Liu Heng<br />35<i> Bless Me, Ultima</i> Rudolfo A. Anaya<br />36<i> Bliss</i> Lauren Myracle<br />37<i> The Blue House (Panda Books)</i> Naishan Cheng<br />38<i> The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)</i> Toni Morrison<br />39<i> The Bonfire of the Vanities</i> Tom Wolfe<br />40<i> The Book of Lost Things: A Novel</i> John Connolly<br />41<i> Book Reviewing</i><br />42<i> Boomsday</i> Christopher Buckley<br /><strike>43<i> Born Too Short: The Confessions of an Eighth-Grade Basket Case</i> Dan Elish</strike><br />44<i> Bound Feet and Western Dress</i> Pang-Mei Chang<br />45<i> Boundaries of Her Body: A Troubling History of Women's Rights in America</i> Debran Rowland<br />46<i> Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900</i> Diana Preston<br />47<i> Boy's Life</i> Robert McCammon<br />48<i> Boys Are Dogs</i> Leslie Margolis<br />49<i> Breakfast of Champions</i> Kurt Vonnegut<br />50<i> Brideshead Revisited</i> Evelyn Waugh<br />51<i> The Bridge at No Gun Ri: A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War</i> Sang-Hun Choe<br />52<i> Bridge of sighs</i> Richard Russo<br />53<i> Candy in Action</i> Matthue Roth<br />54<i> The Canterbury tales</i> Geoffrey Chaucer<br />55<i> Carpe Diem</i> Autumn Cornwell<br />56<i> Cathy's Key: If Found 650-266-8202</i> Sean Stewart<br />57<i> Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An) (Detective Stories)</i><br />58<i> A Certain Chemistry: A Novel</i> Mil Millington<br />59<i> The Chan's Great Continent, China in Western Minds</i> Jonathan D. Spence<br />60<i> Charms for the Easy Life</i> Kaye Gibbons<br />61<i> Chicks With Sticks 3: Knitwise</i> Elizabeth Lenhard<br />62<i> China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Reaktion Books - Envisioning Asia)</i> Jerome Silbergeld<br />63<i> Chinatown, NY: Labor and Politics, 1930-1950, Updated Edition</i> Peter Kwong<br />64<i> The Chinese Bell Murders (Judge Dee Mysteries)</i> Robert van Gulik<br />65<i> The Chinese Gold Murders (Judge Dee Mysteries)</i> Robert van Gulik<br />66<i> The Chinese Lake Murders (Judge Dee Mysteries)</i> Robert van Gulik<br />67<i> The Chinese Nail Murders (Judge Dee Mysteries)</i> Robert van Gulik<br />68<i> Chinese Story and Other Tales</i> Boris Pilnyak<br />69<i> Chocolat (Tie-In)</i> Joanne Harris<br />70<i> The Chocolate War (Laurel Leaf Books)</i> Robert Cormier<br />71<i> Civil War in China</i> Suzanne Pepper<br />72<i> A Clockwork Orange</i> Anthony Burgess<br />73<i> Cold Comfort Farm</i>Stella Gibbons<br />74<i> Color Purple</i> Alice Walker<br />75<i> Colors of the Mountain</i> Da Chen<br />76<i> Confederacy of Dunces</i> John Kennedy Toole<br />77<i> Contemporary Chinese Short Stories (Panda Books = Hsiung Mao Ts0ung Shu)</i><br /><strike>78<i> Crazy Lady!</i> Jane Leslie Conly</strike><br />79<i> The Creek</i> Jennifer L. Holm<br />80<i> Cybele's Secret</i> Juliet Marillier<br />81<i> A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman</i> Ida Pruitt<br />82<i> David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair (Everyman's Library (Cloth))</i>Irene Nemirovsky<br />83<i> Days of a Russian Noblewoman: The Memories of Anna Labzina, 1758-1821</i> Anna Labzina<br />84<i> The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel</i> Lauren Weisberger<br />85<i> The Dharma Bums</i> Jack Kerouac<br />86<i> Dragon and Sickle - How the Communist Revolution Happened in China</i><br />87<i> Drama in the People's Republic of China</i><br />88<i> Dream of the red chamber (Doubleday anchor books)</i> Xueqin Cao<br />89<i> Eating Chinese Food Naked</i> Mei Ng<br />90<i> Elvis & Olive</i> Stephanie Watson<br />91<i> The Embroidered Shoes: Stories</i> Tsan-Hsueh<br />92<i> The Emperor's Pearl</i> Robert Hans Van Gulik<br />93<i> Empire Falls</i> Richard Russo<br />94<i> Empress Orchid</i> Anchee Min<br />95<i> Empress: A Novel</i> Shana Sa<br />96<i> Everyday Life</i> Lydie Salvayre<br />97<i> Explosions and Other Stories</i> Mo Yan<br />98<i> Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star (Fablehaven)</i> Brandon Mull<br />99<i> Fairy Tales : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)</i> Hans Christian Andersen<br />100 <i>Fakie</i> Tony Varrato<br />101<i> Falling Leaves : The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter</i> Adeline Yen Mah<br />102<i> Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village</i> William Hinton<br />103<i> A Farce to Be Reckoned With</i> Roger Zelazny<br />104<i> Filth</i> Irvine Welsh<br />105<i> Fire in the Blood</i> Irene Nemirovsky<br />106<i> For Now</i> Gayle Friesen<br />107<i> Foreshadowing</i> Marcus Sedgwick<br />108<i> The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression</i> Amity Shlaes<br /><strike>109<i> The Frog Princess (Tales of the Frog Princess)</i> E.D. Baker</strike><br />110<i> Full House</i> Francine P. Pascal<br />111<i> Gaia Girls Enter the Earth (Gaia Girls)</i> Lee Welles<br />112<i> Gaia Girls Way of Water (Gaia Girls)</i> Lee Welles<br />113<i> General Winston's Daughter</i>Sharon Shinn<br />114<i> Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism: The New Debate on Empire</i><br />115<i> A Gesture Life : A Novel</i> Chang-Rae Lee<br />116<i> Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery</i> Susan Juby<br />117<i> The Girl from the Golden Horn</i> Kurban Said<br />118<i> The Girl Who Played Go: A Novel</i> Shan Sa<br /><strike>119<i> A Girl, a Boy, and a Monster Cat</i> Gail Gauthier</strike><br /><strike>120<i> A Girl, A Boy, and Three Robbers</i> Gail Gauthier</strike><br />121<i> Girl, Interrupted (Vintage)</i> Susanna Kaysen<br />122<i> The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing</i> Melissa Bank<br /><strike>123<i> The Glass Castle: A Memoir</i> Jeannette Walls</strike><br />124<i> Glue</i> Irvine Welsh<br />125<i> God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan</i> Jonathan D. Spence<br />126<i> The Golden Lotus: Chin P'ing Mei (The Adventurous History of Hsi Men and His Six Wives)</i><br />127<i> Gone and Back Again</i> Jonathon Scott Fuqua<br />128<i> The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history</i> John M. Barry<br />129<i> Grinnell College</i> John S. Nollen<br />130<i> Grinnell College in the Nineteenth Century: From Salvation to Service</i> Joseph Frazier Wall<br />131<i> The Group</i> Mary McCarthy<br />132<i> The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956, Parts I - II</i> Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn<br />133<i> Hardboiled and Hard Luck</i> Banana Yoshimoto<br />134<i> Haters</i> Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez<br />135<i> The Haunted Monastery and the Chinese Maze Murders</i> Robert van Gulik<br />136<i> Health and Happiness</i>Diane Johnson<br />137<i> Hero-Type</i> Barry Lyga<br /><strike>138<i> High Fidelity</i> Nick Hornby</strike><br />139<i> Home of the Brave</i> Katherine Applegate<br />140<i> The Host: A Novel</i> Stephenie Meyer<br />141<i> The House of Dies Drear (Dies Drear Chronicle)</i> Virginia Hamilton<br />142<i> How to Be Bad</i> Lauren Myracle<br />143<i> Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine</i> Jasper Becker<br />144<i> I Am Not Joey Pigza</i> Jack Gantos<br />145<i> I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes</i> Jaclyn Moriarty<br />146<i> If at Faust You Don't Succeed</i> Roger Zelazny<br />147<i> You Come Softly</i> Jacqueline Woodson<br />148<i> In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Vintage International)</i> Truman Capote<br />149<i> In the Serpent's Coils (Hallowmere)</i> Tiffany Trent<br />150<i> Inheritance: A Novel</i> Lan Samantha Chang<br />151<i> Isaac's Torah</i> Angel Wagenstein<br />152<i> Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit</i> Daniel Quinn<br />153<i> The island of lost maps : a true story of cartographic crime</i> Miles Harvey<br />154<i> Istanbul: Memories and the City</i> Orhan Pamuk<br />155<i> Istanbul: The Imperial City</i> John Freely<br />156<i> It Can't Happen Here</i> Sinclair Lewis<br />157<i> Jack of Kinrowan</i> Charles De Lint<br />158 <i>The Jane Austen Book Club</i>Karen Joy Fowler<br />159<i> Journey Across Tibet: A Young Woman's Trek Across the Rooftop of the World</i> Sorrel Wilby<br />161<i> Judge Dee At Work</i> Robert van Gulik<br />162<i> Kaffir Boy: The True Story Of A Black Youths Coming Of Age In Apartheid South Africa</i> Mark Mathabane<br />163<i> The LACQUER SCREEN</i> Robert van Gulik<br />164<i> Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon (Penguin Classics)</i> Jane Austen<br />165<i> The LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST</i> Nikos Kazantzakis<br />166<i> Le Mariage</i> Diane Johnson<br />167<i> A Leaf In The Bitter Wind</i> Ting-Xing Ye<br />168<i> A Lesson Before Dying</i> Ernest J. Gaines<br />169<i> Li'l Kids: "road to god knows..." adventures!</i> Von Allan<br />170<i> Life and Death are Wearing Me Out: A Novel</i> Mo Yan<br /><i>Life and Death in Shanghai</i> Nien Cheng<br />171<i> Little Green Men: A Novel</i> Christopher Buckley<br />172<i> Long May She Reign</i> Ellen Emerson White<br />173<i> The Lords of Discipline</i> Pat Conroy<br />174<i> The Lost Colony, Book One, Collector's Edition: The Snodgrass Conspiracy (The Lost Colony)</i> Grady Klein<br />175<i> Love and Other Near-Death Experiences: A Novel</i> Mil Millington<br />176<i> The Love Wife</i> Gish Jen<br />177<i> The Lucky Ones</i> Stephanie Greene<br />178 <i>Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee</i> Pamela Druckerman<br />179<i> The lute : Kao Ming's P�i-p�a chi</i> Ming Kao<br />180<i> The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and and How All Men Can Help</i> Jackson Katz<br />181<i> The Making of the English Working Class (Penguin History)</i> E.P. Thompson<br />182<i> Man of the House: A Novel</i> Ad Hudler<br />183<i> A Mango-Shaped Space</i> Wendy Mass<br />184<i> Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture</i> Richard H. Solomon<br />185<i> Mao: A Life</i> Philip Short<br />186<i> Mao: The Unknown Story</i> Jung Chang<br />187<i> Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail</i> Thomas McFadden<br />188<i> Mariah Mundi: The Midas Box</i> G. P. Taylor<br />189<i> Masterpiece</i> Elise Broach<br />190<i> The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics)</i> Thomas Hardy<br />191<i> Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac</i> Gabrielle Zevin<br />192<i> Memories of My Melancholy Whores</i> Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />193<i> The Memory Keeper's Daughter</i> Kim Edwards<br />194<i> Midnight Pearls</i> Debbie Viguié<br />195<i> Milagros: Girl from Away</i> Meg Medina<br />197<i> The MONKEY AND THE TIGER (Monkey & the Tiger Srs)</i> Robert van Gulik<br />198<i> The Monster Hunter's Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Saving Mankind from Vampires, Zombies, Hellhounds, and Other Mythic</i> Ibrahim Amin<br />199<i> Monster Madness (Nightmare Academy, No. 2)</i> Dean Lorey<br />200<i> The Morning Deluge</i> Han Suyin<br />201<i> The Mother Tongue</i> Bill Bryson<br />202<i> Mrs. Dalloway</i> Virginia Woolf<br />203<i> Murder in Canton</i> Robert Hans Van Gulik<br />204<i> My Faith in Frankie</i> Mike Carey<br />205<i> My Ishmael</i> Daniel Quinn<br />206<i> My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered</i> Howell Raines<br />207<i> The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame (Studies of the Pacific Basin Institute)</i> Katsuichi Honda<br />208<i> The Nanny Diaries: A Novel</i> Emma McLaughlin<br />209<i> Necklace and Calabash</i> Robert van Gulik<br />210<i> Neverwhere</i> Neil Gaiman<br />211<i> The Nightingale</i> Kara Dalkey<br />212<i> No Birds Sang</i> Farley Mowat<br /><strike>213<i> North of Beautiful</i> Justina Chen Headley</strike><br /><strike>214<i> Nothing But the Truth (and a Few White Lies)</i> Justina Chen Headley</strike><br />215 <i>Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor</i> Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh<br />216<i> Oliver Twist (Bantam Classics)</i> Charles Dickens<br />217<i> On the Water</i> H. M. van den Brink<br />218<i> One Day in China: May 21, 1936</i> Sherman Cochran<br />219<i> One Fine Day the Rabbi Bought a Cross</i> Harry Kemelman<br />220<i> One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />221<i> The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life</i> Tom Reiss<br />222<i> Paper Daughter: A Memoir</i> M. Elaine Mar<br />223<i> Pastries: A Novel of Desserts and Discoveries</i> Bharti Kirchner<br />224<i> The Peach Blossom Fan: Tao-Hua-Shan</i> Shangren Kong<br />225<i> Peiling and the Chicken-Fried Christmas</i> Pauline Chen<br />226<i> Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005</i> Phil Baines<br />227<i> The Phantom of the Temple</i> Robert van Gulik<br />228<i> Philippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister</i> Liz Kessler<br />229<i> The Pillow Book (Penguin Classics)</i> Sei Shonagon<br />230<i> Pippi Longstocking</i> Astrid Lindgren<br />231<i> Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers</i><br />232<i> Playing for Thrills</i> Wang Shuo<br />233<i> PLEASURE OF MY COMPANY, THE: A NOVELLA</i> Steve Martin<br />234<i> Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities</i> Alexandra Robbins<br />235<i> The Plot Against America: A Novel</i> Philip Roth<br />236<i> POETS & MURDER (Judge Dee Mysteries)</i> Robert van Gulik<br />237<i> Possession : A Romance (Vintage International)</i> A.S. Byatt<br />238<i> The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary</i> Simon Winchester<br />239<i> The Puzzling World of Winston Breen</i> Eric Berlin<br />240<i> Question of Hu</i> Jonathan D. Spence<br />241<i> Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas</i> Su Tong<br /><strike>242<i> Rapunzel's Revenge</i> Shannon Hale</strike><br />243<i> Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books</i> Azar Nafisi<br />244<i> Red Azalea</i> Anchee Min<br />245<i> Red Dragon Codex (Dragonlance: the New Adventure)</i> R.D. Henham<br />246<i> The red lantern; a modern revolutionary Peking opera</i><br />247<i> Red Star Over China</i> Edgar Snow<br />248<i> Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man</i> Jonathan D. Spence<br />249<i> Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party</i> Ying Chang Compestine<br />251<i> River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.)</i> Peter Hessler<br />252<i> The Road to Wellville : Tie-In</i> T.C. Boyle<br />253<i> Rockville Pike: A Suburban Comedy of Manners</i> Susan Coll<br />254<i> The Rouge of the North</i> Eileen Chang<br />255<i> Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1750-1917 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies</i><br />256<i> The Samurai's Garden: A Novel</i> Gail Tsukiyama<br />257<i> A Season of Eden</i> JM Warwick<br />258<i> Secret in the Tower: Time Spies, Book 1 (Time Spies)</i> Candice Ransom<br />259<i> Secret Society Girl: An Ivy League Novel (Ivy League)</i> Diana Peterfreund<br />260<i> Seeing Sky-blue Pink (Exceptional Reading & Language Arts Titles for Intermediate Grades)</i> Candice F. Ransom<br />261<i> The Servants</i> Michael Marshall Smith<br />262<i> The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific</i> J. Maarten Troost<br />263<i> Shanghai: Electric & Lurid City</i><br />264<i> Shark Girl</i> Kelly Bingham<br />265<i> Shift</i> Charlotte Agell<br />266<i> Silk</i> Alessandro Baricco<br />267<i> Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet</i> Xinran Xue<br />268<i> Snow</i> Tracy Lynn<br />269<i> Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel</i> Lisa See<br />270<i> Snow White, Blood Red</i> Ellen Datlow<br />271<i> Something Rotten</i> Alan M. Gratz<br />272<i> Something to Blog About</i> Shana Norris<br />273<i> Song of Solomon</i> Toni Morrison<br />274<i> The Sound and the Fury</i>William Faulkner<br />275<i> A Spot of Bother (Vintage)</i>Mark Haddon<br />276<i> Spud</i> John van de Ruit<br />277<i> Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes</i> Chris Crutcher<br />278<i> Stealing Heaven</i> Elizabeth Scott<br />279<i> Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1911-45</i> Barbara Wertheim Tuchman<br />280<i> The Stink Files, Dossier 001: The Postman Always Brings Mice (Stink Files) (Stink Files)</i> Holm & Hamel<br />281<i> A Stolen Tongue</i> Sheri Holman<br />282<i> STORM: The Infinity Code (Storm)</i> Emma Young<br /><strike>283<i> The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice (P.S.)</i> Trevor Corson</strike><br />284<i> Straight Man</i> Richard Russo<br />285<i> Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties</i> Tariq Ali<br />286<i> Sun, the Moon and the Stars</i> Steven Brust<br />287<i> Supreme Courtship</i> Christopher Buckley<br />288<i> Talent</i> Zoey Dean<br />289<i> Teahouse, (A Play in Three Acts)</i> Lao She<br />290<i> The Templars : The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades</i> Piers Paul Read<br />291<i> Ten Things I Hate About Me</i> Randa Abdel-Fattah<br />292<i> Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Cambridge Literature)</i> Thomas Hardy<br />293<i> A Theory of Relativity</i> Jacquelyn Mitchard<br />294<i> Tin Angel</i> Shannon Cowan<br />295<i> To change China : Western advisers in China, 1620-1960</i> Jonathan D. Spence<br />296<i> To Kill a Mockingbird</i> Harper Lee<br />297<i> Treason by the Book</i> Jonathan D. Spence<br />298<i> The Triumph of Deborah</i> Eva Etzioni-Halevy<br />299<i> The True Meaning of Smekday</i> Adam Rex<br />300<i> Turbulence: A Novel (Pegasus Prize for Literature)</i> Jia Pingwa<br />301<i> Two Pioneers of Young Adult Library Services</i> Patty Campbell<br />302<i> Uncovering the Sixties: The Life and Times of the Underground Press (Citadel Underground Series)</i> Abe Peck<br />303<i> Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.)</i> Malcolm Lowry<br />304<i> The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolut</i> David Kamp<br />305<i> Unraveling on the Old Silk Road : Hitchhiking China and Beyond</i> Antonio Cammarata<br />306<i> Vögelein: Clockwork Faerie</i> Jane Irwin<br />307<i> Visions of Cody</i> Jack Kerouac<br />308<i> Waiting: A Novel</i> Ha Jin<br />309<i> War and Peace</i> Leo Tolstoy<br />310<i> Warriors: The Lost Warrior (Warriors)</i> Erin Hunter<br /><strike>311<i> We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)</i> Shirley Jackson</strike><br />312<i> We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda</i> Philip Gourevitch<br />313<i> The Well : David's Story</i> Mildred D. Taylor<br />314<i> Whale Talk</i> Chris Crutcher<br />315<i> What Do Jews Believe?: The Customs and Culture of Modern Judaism</i> Edward Kessler<br />316<i> What Do Muslims Believe?: The Roots and Realities of Modern Islam</i> Ziauddin Sardar<br />317<i> When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: Tie-In Edition</i> Le Ly Hayslip<br />318<i> When You Are Engulfed in Flames</i> David Sedaris<br />319<i> White as Snow (Fairy Tale Series)</i> Tanith Lee<br />320<i> Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants</i> Chen Guidi<br />321<i> World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War</i> Max Brooks<br />322<i> Written on Water (Weatherhead Books on Asia)</i> Eileen Chang<br />323<i> Zibby Payne & the Party Problem (Zibby Payne)</i> Alison Bell<br />324<i> Zibby Payne & the Trio Trouble (Zibby Payne)</i> Alison BellJenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-68271569347985156792009-05-26T15:11:00.000-07:002009-05-26T15:12:16.096-07:00Kendra SpoilersI'm sorry, but:<br /><br />YOU DON'T STEAL YOUR BEST FRIEND'S GUY! SO UNCOOL! And, if he likes you better, it doesn't matter, you just don't go there. Who cares if you're a better couple or if she didn't deserve him. YOU JUST DON'T GO THERE! I can't believe that not only did Kendra go there, but she got away with it! And Adonna, while she didn't forgive her, you knew she was going to! The entire ending, while happy, seemed a little too tidy. Ah well.Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-55441431423839765242009-04-08T13:35:00.000-07:002009-04-08T13:36:59.837-07:00Forever PrincessOf course Mia FINALLY SAW THE LIGHT and dumped JP. And went home with Michael. And patched things up with Lilly who seems a better friend now than she was in the earlier books.<br /><br />And it was AWESOME. TOTALLY F-ING AWESOME.<br /><br />Also, I loved the big where Michael and Mia totally make out in the carriage ride. Tee-hee.<br /><br />And when Lars tells Michael he needs to punch JP. And that Mia won't.<br /><br />I knew it would all end up good. Otherwise, I would cry. And Meg Cabot would no longer be my celebrity BFF, which would make me cry even harder.Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-36963139726924150222009-03-12T13:49:00.001-07:002009-03-12T13:54:09.876-07:00Turning PagesOk, dude, if Kevin is having Priscilla drive him to New York, he's going to round up the rest of the Fables, yes? Because if he doesn't, Willingham's just a nasty nasty tease.<br /><br />I'm also hoping that Snow and Bigby's kid, Ghost, who shoved that sword through Jack's chest, will save the day. That'd be sweet.<br /><br />Also, Emily Wall. Did you all get this before I did? It wasn't until that last frame with her three brothers that I got it... she's the 4th wall. D'UH.<br /><br />Also, Dex? Awesome.Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-24978534255448731032009-03-04T18:41:00.000-08:002009-03-04T18:43:18.588-08:00Fables 11: War and PiecesPrince Charming isn't dead. It just doesn't make sense--it took forever to kill Goldilocks (is she even dead for sure?) because she was too popular in the Mundy world. Snow White survived being shot in the head, her brains scattered all over the farm because she was too popular. Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella are some of THE most popular fairy tales in the Western Mundy world and Prince Charming stars in ALL of them. He's too popular. He can't be dead. It just doesn't make sense!Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539491.post-47333089607200308412009-01-28T08:40:00.000-08:002009-01-28T08:41:45.678-08:00Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read Before They Die<strong><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/19/1000-novels-comedy-introduction">Comedy</a></strong><p>Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis<br />Money by Martin Amis<br />The Information by Martin Amis<br />The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge<br />According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge<br />Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes<br />A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes<br />Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man by Henry Howarth Bashford<br />Molloy by Samuel Beckett<br />Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm<br />The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow<br />The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett<br />Queen Lucia by EF Benson<br />The Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE Bowman<br />A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd<br />The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury<br />No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon<br />Illywhacker by Peter Carey<br />A Season in Sinji by JL Carr<br />The Harpole Report by JL Carr<br />The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington<br />Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary<br />The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary<br />Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes<br />The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin<br />Just William by Richmal Crompton<br />The Provincial Lady by EM Delafield<br />Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by Peter De Vries<br />The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens<br />Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens<br />Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot<br />A Fairy Tale of New York by JP Donleavy<br />The Commitments by Roddy Doyle<br />Ennui by Maria Edgeworth<br />Cheese by Willem Elsschot<br />Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding<br />Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding<br />Tom Jones by Henry Fielding<br />Caprice by Ronald Firbank<br />Bouvard et Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert<br />Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn<br />The Polygots by William Gerhardie<br />Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons<br />Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol<br />Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov<br />The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame<br />Brewster's Millions by Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon)<br />Squire Haggard's Journal by Michael Green<br />Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene<br />Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene<br />Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith<br />The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi<br />The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon<br />Catch-22 by Joseph Heller<br />Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgkins<br />High Fidelity by Nick Hornby<br />I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal<br />The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes<br />Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood<br />The Mighty Walzer Howard by Jacobson<br />Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell<br />Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome<br />Finnegans Wake by James Joyce<br />The Castle by Franz Kafka<br />Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor<br />Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov<br />The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester<br />L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain-René Lesage<br />Changing Places by David Lodge<br />Nice Work by David Lodge<br />The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay<br />England, Their England by AG Macdonell<br />Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie<br />Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf by David Madsen<br />Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard by W Somerset Maugham<br />Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin<br />Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney<br />Puckoon by Spike Milligan<br />The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills<br />Charade by John Mortimer<br />Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer<br />Under the Net by Iris Murdoch<br />Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov<br />Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov<br />Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul<br />The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin<br />La Disparition by Georges Perec<br />Les Revenentes by Georges Perec<br />La Vie Mode d'Emploi by Georges Perec<br />My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunkett<br />A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell<br />A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell<br />Excellent Women by Barbara Pym<br />Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym<br />Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau<br />Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler<br />Alms for Oblivion by Simon Raven<br />Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth<br />The Westminster Alice by Saki<br />The Unbearable Bassington by Saki<br />Hurrah for St Trinian's by Ronald Searle<br />Great Apes by Will Self<br />Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe<br />Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe<br />Office Politics by Wilfrid Sheed<br />Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel by Charles Simmons<br />Moo by Jane Smiley<br />Topper Takes a Trip by Thorne Smith<br />The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias Smollett<br />The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett<br />The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett<br />The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett<br />The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark<br />The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark<br />The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark<br />Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark<br />A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark<br />The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne<br />White Man Falling by Mike Stocks<br />Handley Cross by RS Surtees<br />A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift<br />Penrod by Booth Tarkington<br />The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray<br />Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell<br />Tropic of Ruislip by Leslie Thomas<br />A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole<br />Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope<br />Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout<br />The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain<br />The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike<br />Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut<br />Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace<br />Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh<br />Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh<br />Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh<br />Scoop by Evelyn Waugh<br />The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh<br />A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh<br />The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon<br />Tono Bungay by HG Wells<br />Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle<br />The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams<br />Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson<br />Something Fresh by PG Wodehouse<br />Piccadilly Jim by PG Wodehouse<br />Thank You Jeeves by PG Wodehouse<br />Heavy Weather by PG Wodehouse<br />The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse<br />Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse</p><p><strong><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/18/1000-novels-crime-mystery-past-investigation">Crime</a></strong> </p><p>The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren<br />Fantomas by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre<br />The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler<br />Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler<br />Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler<br />The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster<br />Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley<br />The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley<br />The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake<br />Lady Audley's Secret by Mary E Braddon<br />The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke<br />The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke<br />The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan<br />Greenmantle by John Buchan<br />The Asphalt Jungle by WR Burnett<br />The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain<br />Double Indemnity by James M Cain<br />True History of the Ned Kelly Gang by Peter Carey<br />The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr<br />The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler<br />The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler<br />No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase<br />The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers<br />And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie<br />The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie<br />The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie<br />The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie<br />The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie<br />The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins<br />The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins<br />A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle<br />The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle<br />The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle<br />The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon<br />The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad<br />Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad<br />Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell<br />The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton<br />Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton<br />Poetic Justice by Amanda Cross<br />The Ipcress File by Len Deighton<br />Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter<br />The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter<br />Ratking by Michael Dibdin<br />Dead Lagoon by Michael Dibdin<br />Dirty Tricks by Michael Dibdin<br />A Rich Full Death by Michael Dibdin<br />Vendetta by Michael Dibdin<br />Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky<br />An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser<br />My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier<br />The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas<br />The Pledge by Friedrich Durrenmatt<br />The Crime of Father Amado by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz<br />The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco<br />American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis<br />LA Confidential by James Ellroy<br />The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy<br />A Quiet Belief in Angels by RJ Ellory<br />Sanctuary by William Faulkner<br />Casino Royale by Ian Fleming<br />Goldfinger by Ian Fleming<br />You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming<br />The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth<br />Brighton Rock by Graham Greene<br />A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene<br />The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene<br />The Third Man by Graham Greene<br />A Time to Kill by John Grisham<br />The King of Torts by John Grisham<br />Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton<br />The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett<br />The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett<br />Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett<br />The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett<br />Fatherland by Robert Harris<br />Black Sunday by Thomas Harris<br />Red Dragon by Thomas Harris<br />Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen<br />The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins<br />Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith<br />The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith<br />Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill<br />A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes<br />Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg<br />Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household<br />Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles<br />Silence of the Grave by Arnadur Indridason<br />Death at the President's Lodging by Michael Innes<br />Cover Her Face by PD James<br />A Taste for Death by PD James<br />Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman<br />Misery by Stephen King<br />Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King<br />Kim by Rudyard Kipling<br />The Constant Gardener by John le Carre<br />Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre<br />The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre<br />To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee<br />52 Pick-up by Elmore Leonard<br />Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard<br />Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem<br />The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum<br />Cop Hater by Ed McBain<br />No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy<br />Enduring Love by Ian McEwan<br />Sidetracked by Henning Mankell<br />Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley<br />The Great Impersonation by E Phillips Oppenheim<br />The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent by E Phillips Oppenheim<br />My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk<br />Toxic Shock by Sara Paretsky<br />Blacklist by Sara Paretsky<br />Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace<br />Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace<br />The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos<br />Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos<br />Lush Life by Richard Price<br />The Godfather by Mario Puzo<br />V by Thomas Pynchon<br />The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon<br />Black and Blue by Ian Rankin<br />The Hanging Gardens by Ian Rankin<br />Exit Music by Ian Rankin<br />Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell<br />Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell<br />Dissolution by CJ Sansom<br />Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers<br />Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Le Sayers<br />The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon<br />The Blue Room by Georges Simenon<br />The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo<br />Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith<br />Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck<br />The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout<br />Perfume by Patrick Suskind<br />The Secret History by Donna Tartt<br />The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey<br />The Getaway by Jim Thompson<br />Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain<br />A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine<br />A Fatal inversion by Barbara Vine<br />King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine<br />The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace<br />Fingersmith by Sarah Waters<br />Native Son by Richard Wright<br />Therese Raquin by Emile Zola</p><p><strong><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/20/1000-novels-family-self-part-one">Family and self</a></strong> </p><p>The Face of Another by Kobo Abe<br />Little Women by Louisa May Alcott<br />Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson<br />Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood<br />Epileptic by David B<br />Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker<br />Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac<br />Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac<br />The Crow Road by Iain Banks<br />The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks<br />Fun Home by Alison Bechdel<br />Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett<br />A Legacy by Sybille Bedford<br />Herzog by Saul Bellow<br />Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow<br />The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett<br />G by John Berger<br />Extinction by Thomas Bernhard<br />Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles<br />Any Human Heart by William Boyd<br />The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch<br />Evelina by Fanny Burney<br />The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler<br />The Sound of my Voice by Ron Butlin<br />The Outsider by Albert Camus<br />Wise Children by Angela Carter<br />The Professor's House by Willa Cather<br />The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever<br />The Awakening by Kate Chopin<br />Les Enfants Terrible by Jean Cocteau<br />The Vagabond by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette<br />Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett<br />Being Dead by Jim Crace<br />Quarantine by Jim Crace<br />The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir<br />Roxana by Daniel Defoe<br />Great Expectations by Charles Dickens<br />The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky<br />My New York Diary by Julie Doucet<br />The Millstone by Margaret Drabble<br />My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell<br />Silence by Shusaku Endo<br />The Gathering by Anne Enright<br />Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides<br />As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner<br />The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner<br />The Sportswriter by Richard Ford<br />Howards End by EM Forster<br />Spies by Michael Frayn<br />Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud<br />The Man of Property by John Galsworthy<br />Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell<br />The Immoralist by Andre Gide<br />The Vatican Cellars by Andre Gide<br />The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith<br />The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene<br />Hunger by Knut Hamsun<br />The Shrimp and the Anemone by LP Hartley<br />The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway<br />Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse<br />Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse<br />The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier<br />Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes<br />A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving<br />The Ambassadors by Henry James<br />Washington Square by Henry James<br />The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins<br />The Unfortunates by BS Johnson<br />A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce<br />Ulysses by James Joyce<br />Good Behaviour by Molly Keane<br />Memet my Hawk by Yasar Kemal<br />One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey<br />The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi<br />Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence<br />Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee<br />Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann<br />The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing<br />How Green was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn<br />Martin Eden by Jack London<br />Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry<br />The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers<br />Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz<br />The Assistant by Bernard Malamud<br />Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann<br />The Chateau by William Maxwell<br />The Rector's Daughter by FM Mayor<br />The Ordeal of Richard Feverek by George Meredith<br />Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry<br />Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo<br />The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore<br />The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison<br />Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison<br />Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro<br />The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch<br />The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil<br />A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul<br />At-Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien<br />Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kezaburo Oe<br />The Moviegoer by Walker Percy<br />The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath<br />My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok<br />The Good Companions by JB Priestley<br />The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx<br />Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust<br />A Married Man by Piers Paul Read<br />Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson<br />The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney by Henry Handel Richardson<br />Call it Sleep by Henry Roth<br />Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau<br />The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy<br />The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger<br />Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel<br />A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth<br />Unless by Carol Shields<br />We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver<br />The Three Sisters by May Sinclair<br />The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate by Isaac Bashevis Singer<br />A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley<br />On Beauty by Zadie Smith<br />The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead<br />East of Eden by John Steinbeck<br />Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield<br />Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo<br />The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington<br />Angel by Elizabeth Taylor<br />Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson<br />The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin<br />The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend<br />Death in Summer by William Trevor<br />Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev<br />Peace in War by Miguel de Unamuno<br />The Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike<br />The Color Purple by Alice Walker<br />Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware<br />Morvern Callar by Alan Warner<br />The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells<br />The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West<br />Frost in May by Antonia White<br />The Tree of Man by Patrick White<br />The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde<br />Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson<br />I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward<br />To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf<br />Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf<br />Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss</p><p><strong><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/17/1000-novels-what-makes-great-love-story">Love</a></strong> </p><p>Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier<br />Dom Casmurro Joaquim by Maria Machado de Assis<br />Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen<br />Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen<br />Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen<br />Mansfield Park by Jane Austen<br />Emma by Jane Austen<br />Persuasion by Jane Austen<br />Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin<br />Nightwood by Djuna Barnes<br />The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis by Giorgio Bassani<br />Love for Lydia by HE Bates<br />More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow<br />Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore<br />The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen<br />The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen<br />Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte<br />Vilette by Charlotte Bronte<br />Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte<br />Look At Me by Anita Brookner<br />Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown<br />Possession by AS Byatt<br />Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote<br />Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey<br />A Month in the Country by JL Carr<br />My Antonia by Willa Cather<br />A Lost Lady by Willa Cather<br />Claudine a l'ecole by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette<br />Cheri by Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette<br />Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad<br />The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette<br />The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier<br />Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier<br />The Lover by Marguerite Duras<br />Adam Bede by George Eliot<br />Daniel Deronda by George Eliot<br />The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot<br />The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides<br />The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald<br />Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald<br />The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald<br />Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert<br />The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford<br />A Room with a View by EM Forster<br />The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles<br />The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico<br />Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell<br />Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide<br />Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon<br />The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe<br />Living by Henry Green<br />The End of the Affair by Graham Greene<br />The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall<br />Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy<br />Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy<br />Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy<br />The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy<br />The Go-Between by LP Hartley<br />The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne<br />The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard<br />A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway<br />The Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer<br />Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer<br />The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst<br />Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest by WH Hudson<br />Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston<br />Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley<br />The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro<br />Portrait of a Lady by Henry James<br />The Wings of the Dove by Henry James<br />The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek<br />Beauty and Saddness by Yasunari Kawabata<br />The Far Pavillions by Mary Margaret Kaye<br />Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis<br />Moon over Africa by Pamela Kent<br />The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera<br />The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera<br />Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos<br />Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence<br />The Rainbow by DH Lawrence<br />Women in Love by DH Lawrence<br />The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann<br />The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann<br />Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos<br />Zami by Audre Lorde<br />Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie<br />Samarkand by Amin Maalouf<br />Death in Venice by Thomas Mann<br />The Silent Duchess by Dacia Maraini<br />A Heart So White by Javier Marias<br />Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham<br />So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell<br />The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers<br />Atonement by Ian McEwan<br />The Child in Time by Ian McEwan<br />The Egoist by George Meredith<br />Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller<br />Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller<br />Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell<br />The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford<br />Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford<br />Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante<br />Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami<br />Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male by Vladimir Nabokov<br />The Painter of Signs by RK Narayan<br />Delta of Venus by Anais Nin<br />All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom<br />The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje<br />Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak<br />Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost<br />Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys<br />Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson<br />Pamela by Samuel Richardson<br />Clarissa by Samuel Richardson<br />Gilead by Marilynne Robinson<br />Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan<br />Ali and Nino by Kurban Said<br />Light Years by James Salter<br />A Sport and a Passtime by James Salter<br />The Reader by Benhardq Schlink<br />The Reluctant Orphan by Aara Seale<br />Love Story by Eric Segal<br />Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer<br />At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart<br />I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith<br />The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif<br />Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann<br />Waterland by Graham Swift<br />Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki<br />Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy<br />Music and Silence by Rose Tremain<br />First Love by Ivan Turgenev<br />Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler<br />The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler<br />The Night Watch by Sarah Waters<br />The Graduate by Charles Webb<br />The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton<br />The Passion by Jeanette Winterson<br />East Lynne by Ellen Wood<br />Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates</p><p><strong><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/1000-novels-fiction-fantasy-introduction">Science fiction and fantasy</a></strong> </p><p>The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams<br />Non-Stop by Brian W Aldiss<br />Foundation by Isaac Asimov<br />The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood<br />The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood<br />In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster<br />The Drowned World by JG Ballard<br />Crash by JG Ballard<br />Millennium People by JG Ballard<br />The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks<br />Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks<br />Weaveworld by Clive Barker<br />Darkmans by Nicola Barker<br />The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter<br />Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear<br />Vathek by William Beckford<br />The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester<br />Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury<br />Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite<br />Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown<br />Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys<br />The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov<br />The Coming Race by EGEL Bulwer-Lytton<br />A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess<br />The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess<br />A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs<br />Naked Lunch by William Burroughs<br />Kindred by Octavia Butler<br />Erewhon by Samuel Butler<br />The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino<br />The Influence by Ramsey Campbell<br />Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll<br />Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll<br />Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter<br />The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter<br />The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon<br />The Man who was Thursday by GK Chesterton<br />Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke<br />Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke<br />Hello Summer, Goodbye by Michael G Coney<br />Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland<br />House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski<br />Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq<br />The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R Delaney<br />Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick<br />The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick<br />Camp Concentration by Thomas M Disch<br />Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco<br />Under the Skin by Michel Faber<br />The Magus by John Fowles<br />American Gods by Neil Gaiman<br />Red Shift by Alan Garner<br />Neuromancer by William Gibson<br />Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman<br />Lord of the Flies by William Golding<br />The Forever War by Joe Haldeman<br />Light by M John Harrison<br />The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne<br />Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein<br />Dune by Frank L Herbert<br />The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse<br />Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban<br />The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg<br />Atomised by Michel Houellebecq<br />Brave New World by Aldous Huxley<br />The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro<br />The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson<br />The Turn of the Screw by Henry James<br />The Children of Men by PD James<br />After London; or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies<br />Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones<br />The Trial by Franz Kafka<br />Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes<br />The Shining by Stephen King<br />The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski<br />Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu<br />The Earthsea Series by Ursula Le Guin<br />The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin<br />Solaris by Stanislaw Lem<br />Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing<br />The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis<br />The Monk by Matthew Lewis<br />A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay<br />The Night Sessions by Ken Macleod<br />Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel<br />Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith<br />I Am Legend by Richard Matheson<br />Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin<br />The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe<br />The Road by Cormac McCarthy<br />Ascent by Jed Mercurio<br />The Scar by China Mieville<br />Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller<br />A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr<br />Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell<br />Mother London by Michael Moorcock<br />News from Nowhere by William Morris<br />Beloved by Toni Morrison<br />The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami<br />Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov<br />The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger<br />Ringworld by Larry Niven<br />Vurt by Jeff Noon<br />The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien<br />The Famished Road by Ben Okri<br />Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell<br />Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk<br />Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock<br />Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake<br />The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth<br />A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys<br />The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett<br />The Prestige by Christopher Priest<br />His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman<br />Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais<br />The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe<br />Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds<br />The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson<br />Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling<br />Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie<br />The Female Man by Joanna Russ<br />Air by Geoff Ryman<br />The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br />Blindness by Jose Saramago<br />How the Dead Live by Will Self<br />Frankenstein by Mary Shelley<br />Hyperion by Dan Simmons<br />Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon<br />Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson<br />The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson<br />Dracula by Bram Stoker<br />The Insult by Rupert Thomson<br />The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien<br />The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien<br />A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain<br />Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut<br />The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole<br />Institute Benjamenta by Robert Walser<br />Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner<br />Affinity by Sarah Waters<br />The Time Machine by HG Wells<br />The War of the Worlds by HG Wells<br />The Sword in the Stone by TH White<br />The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson<br />The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe<br />Orlando by Virginia Woolf<br />Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham<br />The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham<br />We by Yevgeny Zamyatin</p><p><strong><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/21/1000-novels-state-of-the-nation2">State of the nation</a></strong></p><p>Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe<br />Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe<br />London Fields by Martin Amis<br />Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand<br />Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin<br />La Comedie Humaine by Honore de Balzac<br />They Were Counted by Miklos Banffy<br />A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow<br />Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe<br />Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave by Aphra Behn<br />Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett<br />The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen<br />Room at the Top by John Braine<br />A Dry White Season by Andre Brink<br />Shirley by Charlotte Bronte<br />Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess<br />The Virgin in the Garden by AS Byatt<br />Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell<br />The Plague by Albert Camus<br />The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier<br />What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe<br />Disgrace by JM Coetzee<br />Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coeztee<br />Microserfs by Douglas Coupland<br />Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe<br />Underworld by Don DeLillo<br />White Noise by Don DeLillo<br />A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens<br />Bleak House by Charles Dickens<br />Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens<br />Hard Times by Charles Dickens<br />Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens<br />Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens<br />Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion<br />Sybil or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli<br />Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin<br />The Book of Daniel by EL Doctorow<br />Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky<br />The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky<br />USA by John Dos Passos<br />Sister Carrie by Theodor Dreiser<br />Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth<br />Middlemarch by George Eliot<br />Silas Marner by George Eliot<br />The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison<br />Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert<br />Effi Briest by Theodore Fontane<br />Independence Day by Richard Ford<br />A Passage to India by EM Forster<br />The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen<br />The Recognitions by William Gaddis<br />Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell<br />North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell<br />The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide<br />The Odd Women by George Gissing<br />New Grub Street by George Gissing<br />July's People by Nadine Gordimer<br />Mother by Maxim Gorky<br />Lanark by Alastair Gray<br />Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood<br />The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy<br />A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines<br />The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst<br />South Riding by Winifred Holtby<br />Les Miserables by Victor Hugo<br />Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood<br />Chronicle in Stone by Ismael Kadare<br />How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman<br />The Leopard by Giuseppi di Lampedusa<br />A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin<br />Passing by Nella Larsen<br />The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing<br />Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis<br />Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis<br />Main Street by Sinclair Lewis<br />Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes<br />The Group by Mary McCarthy<br />Amongst Women by John McGahern<br />The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis<br />Of Love & Hunger by Julian Maclaren-Ross<br />Remembering Babylon by David Malouf<br />The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann<br />The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni<br />Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant<br />A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry<br />The Time of Indifference by Alberto Moravia<br />A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul<br />McTeague by Frank Norris<br />Personality by Andrew O'Hagan<br />Animal Farm by George Orwell<br />The Ragazzi Pier by Paolo Pasolini<br />Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton<br />The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese<br />GB84 by David Peace<br />Headlong Hall by Thomas Love Peacock<br />Afternoon Men by Anthony Powell<br />Vineland by Thomas Pynchon<br />The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth<br />American Pastoral by Philip Roth<br />The Human Stain by Philip Roth<br />Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie<br />Shame by Salman Rushdie<br />To Each his Own by Leonardo Sciascia<br />Staying On by Paul Scott<br />Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr<br />The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon<br />God's Bit of Wood by Ousmane Sembene<br />The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge<br />Richshaw Boy by Lao She<br />Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe<br />The Jungle by Upton Sinclair<br />Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith<br />White Teeth by Zadie Smith<br />One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn<br />The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck<br />The Red and the Black by Stendhal<br />This Sporting Life by David Storey<br />The Red Room by August Stringberg<br />The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore<br />Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray<br />The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell<br />The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope<br />The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope<br />The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain<br />Couples by John Updike<br />Z by Vassilis Vassilikos<br />Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse<br />Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh<br />The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West<br />The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West<br />The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton<br />The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe<br />Germinal by Emile Zola<br />La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola</p><p><strong><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/23/1000-novels-war-travel2">War and travel</a></strong> </p><p>Silver Stallion by Junghyo Ahn<br />Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington<br />Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge<br />Darkness Falls from the Air by Nigel Balchin<br />Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard<br />Regeneration by Pat Barker<br />A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry<br />Fair Stood the Wind for France by HE Bates<br />Carrie's War by Nina Bawden<br />The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano<br />The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles<br />An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd<br />When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs<br />Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino<br />Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti<br />One of Ours by Willa Cather<br />Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine<br />Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en<br />Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad<br />Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad<br />Nostromo by Joseph Conrad<br />Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell<br />The History of Pompey the Little by Francis Coventry<br />The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane<br />Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe<br />Bomber by Len Deighton<br />Deliverance by James Dickey<br />Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos<br />South Wind by Norman Douglas<br />The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas<br />Justine by Lawrence Durrell<br />The Bamboo Bed by William Eastlake<br />The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell<br />Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks<br />Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford<br />The African Queen by CS Forester<br />The Ship by CS Forester<br />Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser<br />Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier<br />The Beach by Alex Garland<br />To The Ends of the Earth trilogy by William Golding<br />Asterix the Gaul by Rene Goscinny<br />The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass<br />Count Belisarius by Robert Graves<br />Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman<br />De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage<br />King Solomon's Mines by H Rider Haggard<br />She: A History of Adventure by H Rider Haggard<br />The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton<br />Covenant with Death by John Harris<br />Enigma by Robert Harris<br />The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek<br />For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway<br />The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope<br />The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini<br />A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes<br />Rasselas by Samuel Johnson<br />From Here to Eternity by James Jones<br />Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor<br />Confederates by Thomas Keneally<br />Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally<br />Day by AL Kennedy<br />On the Road by Jack Kerouac<br />Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler<br />The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski<br />If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi<br />The Call of the Wild by Jack London<br />The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean<br />All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy<br />Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy<br />The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley<br />Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty<br />The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer<br />La Condition Humaine by Andre Malraux<br />Fortunes of War by Olivia Manning<br />One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat<br />Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville<br />Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener<br />The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat<br />History by Elsa Morante<br />Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky<br />The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh<br />Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian<br />The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien<br />The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy<br />Burmese Days by George Orwell<br />Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig<br />The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell<br />The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell<br />The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell<br />Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon<br />The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolp Erich Raspe<br />All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque<br />The Crab with the Golden Claws by Georges Remi Herge<br />Tintin in Tibet by Georges Remi Herge<br />The Castafiore Emerald by Georges Remi Herge<br />The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa<br />Sacaramouche by Rafael Sabatini<br />Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini<br />Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer<br />The Hunters by James Salter<br />Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott<br />The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald<br />Austerlitz by WG Sebald<br />Black Beauty by Anna Sewell<br />The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw<br />A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute<br />Maus by Art Spiegelman<br />The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal<br />Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson<br />A Sentimental Journey by Lawrence Sterne<br />Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson<br />Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson<br />A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone<br />Sophie's Choice by William Styron<br />Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift<br />War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy<br />The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain<br />Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne<br />A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne<br />Williwaw by Gore Vidal<br />Candide by Voltaire<br />Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut<br />Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh<br />Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh<br />The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells<br />The Machine-Gunners by Robert Westall<br />Voss by Patrick White<br />The Virginian by Owen Wister<br />The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk<br />The Debacle by Emile Zola</p>Jenniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.com1