[Thanks to Deb, and Errantry]
I was reading a few entries on the top 100 books and I thought I’d join in..
Books I’ve Read
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien J R R
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets - Rowling J K
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Rowling J K
Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone -Rowling J K
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Rowling J K
The Power of One - Courtenay Bryce
The Hobbit - Tolkien J R R
Pride & Prejudice - Austen Jane
The Bible - GOD
To Kill A Mockingbird - Lee Harper
Tomorrow, When The War Began - Marsden John
Narnia Chronicles - Lewis C S
Clan of the Cave Bear - Auel Jean
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Adams Douglas
Bourne Identity - Ludlum Robert
IT - King Stephen
The Firm - Grisham John
Circle of Friends - Binchy Maeve
Emma - Austen Jane
Tandia - Courtenay Bryce
Books I own and intend to read:
True History Of the Kelly Gang Carey Peter
Books I love.
For me a books that I love is a book that I can just read … I can open at any page and just read. A book whose characters jump fluidly from the page into my mind leaving a lasting impression of care in my mind. They are also books with rich dialogue, and often also a lasting point, or message, that makes me think.
On that list, for me… Ender’s Game, (and the other books in the Ender Saga, and Shadow Saga). Orson Scott Card is a beaut Science Fiction writer, who has really written some beaut stories that leave you thinking, and who’s dialogue leaves an impression on your mind, and brings the characters to life in your mind. I also really love Hugo’s Les Miserables. I was reading that last night before I went to bed, and the vividness with which he describes Valjean, Javert, Fantine, and the Thenardier’s are wonderful. You really know, and come to love the richness, realness, of the characters.
1. Lindbergh / A. Scott Berg
ReplyDelete2. The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History / Sir Isaiah Berlin
3. Friday Night Lights : A Town, a Team, and a Dream / H. G. Bissinger
4. The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law / Robert H. Bork
5. The Whig Interpretation of History / Herbert Butterfield
6. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York / Robert A. Caro
7. Witness / Whittaker Chambers
8. What it Takes : The Way to the White House / Richard Ben Cramer
9. Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Joan Didion
10. Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek / Annie Dillard
11. Fools' Names, Fools' Faces / Andrew Ferguson
12. The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition / Anne Frank
13. The Conscience of a Conservative / Barry Goldwater
14. The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane Jacobs
15. Freedom from Fear : The United States, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States, Vol 9) / David M. Kennedy
16. The Conservative Mind: from Burke to Eliot / Russell Kirk
17. The Modern Temper: A Study And A Confession / Joseph Wood Krutch
18. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions / Thomas S. Kuhn
19. The Abolition of Man: Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools / C.S. Lewis
20. The Spirit of St. Louis / Charles A. Lindbergh
21. The Journalist and the Murderer / Janet Malcolm
22. West With the Night / Beryl Markham
23. The Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge / David McCullough
24. Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories / Joseph Mitchell
25. Speak, Memory : An Autobiography Revisited / Vladimir Nabokov
26. Memoirs of a Superfluous Man / Albert Jay Nock
27. Parliament of Whores : A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government / P.J. O'Rourke
28. Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays / Michael Oakeshott
29. The Revolt of the Masses / Jose Ortega y Gasset
30. A Collection of Essays / George Orwell
31. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic / Randy Martin Shilts
32. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 : An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume I) / Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
33. The Elements of Style / William Strunk Jr.
34. Whittaker Chambers: A Biography / Sam Tanenhaus
35. Up From Slavery / Booker T. Washington
36. The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics / Richard A. Watson
37. The Right Stuff / Tom Wolfe
38. The Radicalism of the American Revolution / Gordon S. Wood
39. The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X