Saturday, January 15, 2011

(16) Read 15 Books

Quick! I need ideas of good books to read in the next 1001 days. I only need 15 - which is like 14.5 more than I read last year.

Recent suggestions:
- Twilight series (4)
- Harry Potter series (7)
- Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane

Ones of interest...
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
- Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
- The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
- The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
- The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
- 365 Thank Yous by John Kralik
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- Crazy Love by Francis Chan
- Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo
- Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- The Ha-Ha by Dave King

Ones I should finish...
- Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Best American Short Stories (2005) by Michael Chabon

Ones from my bookshelf...
- Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo

- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

Help!

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UPDATE...the next morning

Wow! Thanks for all of the Twitter responses!

Suggestions:
- Mountains by Mountains by Jodi Picoult
- The Hunger Games by
- The Help by
- Here If You Need Me by
- A Dirty Job by
- This is Where I Leave You by
- The Omnivores Dilemma by
- The Unlikely Disciple by
- Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Which led me to search more on the internet...
- Say You're One of Them - Uwem Akpan
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
- The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
- Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Light in August by John Steinbeck
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2 comments:

  1. You should read The Alchemist and definitely finish Pride and Pred. Also, Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud.

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  2. Yes! Book ideas from my favorite person!

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