Books
Books I Cannot Live Without
Submitted by Bonnybedlam on Sun, 04/14/2013 - 10:37Tags:
- Gone With the Wind-Margaret Mitchell
- Out of Africa-Isak Dinesen
- Handling Sin-Michael Malone
- The Shipping News-E.
What I've read of The BBC's The Big Read: Top 100
Submitted by Bonnybedlam on Sun, 04/14/2013 - 10:19Tags:
- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Gra
Works of Charles Dickens, Read and Not
Submitted by Bonnybedlam on Sun, 04/14/2013 - 10:04Tags:
- Pickwick Papers (1836)
- Oliver Twist (1837)
- Nicholas Nickelby (1838)
- Master Humphrey's Clock (1840)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (1840):
- Barnaby Rudge (1841)
- American Notes (1842)
- Martin Chuzzlewit (1843)
- A Christmas Carol (1843)
- The Chimes: A Goblin Story (1844)
- The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
- The Battle of Life (1846)
- Pictures from Italy (1846)
- Dombey and Son (1846)
- The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
- David Copperfield (1849)
- A Child's History of England (1852)
- Bleak House (1852)
- Hard Times: For These Times (1854)
- Little Dorrit (1855
Clone of Clone "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"
Submitted by flooblover on Thu, 04/11/2013 - 20:48- 2000s
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Saturday – Ian McEwan
- On Beauty – Zadie Smith
- Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
- Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
- The Sea – John Banville
- The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
- The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
- The Master – Colm Tóibín
- Vanishing Point – David Markson
- The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
- Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- Drop City – T.
Science Quotes 2013
Submitted by Bonnybedlam on Sat, 04/06/2013 - 11:26- “It would have been harder to fake it than to do it.”
- ~Neil Armstrong on the moon landing (Quote from 50 Popular Beliefs that People Think are True by Guy P. Harrison)
- "I suggest we embrace the phrase, 'I don't know'. It seems to get a bad rap, but 'I don't know' is a respectable answer when one doesn't know."
- ~Guy P. Harrison 50 Popular Beliefs that People Think are True
Quotes from Books I'm Reading in 2013
Submitted by cmonster on Sat, 04/06/2013 - 11:05Tags:
- Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman:
There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.
- Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen:
She heard Hunter John's voice approaching his office and opened her legs a little wider.
And in walked Hunter John's father.
"Whoa Nelly," John Senior said.
Emma screamed and rolled off the far side of the desk.
"What's wrong?" She heard Hunter John enter the office as she scooted into the recess of the desk and hugged her knees to her chest.
Clone of BBC - Big Read: Top 100
Submitted by Lendoxia on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 17:59Tags:
- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grah
Clone of Books You Should Read If You Want To Consider Yourself Well-Read
Submitted by mamajackson1971 on Tue, 04/02/2013 - 19:15Tags:
- The $30,000 Bequest And Other Stories by Mark Twain (1906)
- Abramham Lincoln by Benjamin Thomas (1952)
- Absalom, Absalom!
"Books You Can't Live Without: The Top 100" - According to "The Guardian"
Submitted by CommonJezebelle on Mon, 04/01/2013 - 12:04Tags:
- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)
- Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
- Harry Potter series (JK Rowling)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
- The Bible
- Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
- His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
- Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
- Little Women (Louisa M Alcott)
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
- Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
- Complete Works of Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
- Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
- The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
- Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
- Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)
Authors List
Submitted by tgfilm on Fri, 03/29/2013 - 18:18Tags:
- John Dryden
- Earl of Rochester
- Lord Byron
- Anne Broadstreet
- Anne Finch
- Alexander Pope
- Samuel Johnson
- Benjamin Franklin
- Phyllis Wheatley
- William Cowper
- William Blake
- Mary Wollestonecraft
- Edmund Burke
- Thomas Paine
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- John Keats
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- James Boswell
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Sir Walter Scott
- Jane Austen
- Henry James
- The Brontes
- George Eliot
- Theodore Dreiser
- Charles Dickens
- Virginia Woolf
- Franz Kafka
- Honoré Balzac
- Charles Baudelaire
- W.M. Thackeray
- Ivan Turgenev
- Herman Melville
- Albert Camus
- E.M.
