Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Raved-about Reads

I like the sound of this challenge, hosted by MizB - it has its own blog, go have a look for yourself. The challenge is to read at least 3 books that everyone else is raving about. I'm going to treat this is a 'living' list of such books so I'm sure to read more than 3. Since it's ongoing, I'll put it in the project section.

What a great idea! :-)

American Born Chinese by Gene Yang
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Birth House by Amy McKay
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
The Complete Maus by Art Spielgman
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
The Orphan's Tales by Catherynne M. Valente
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Salem Falls by Jodie Picoult
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Uglies by Scott Westerfield
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

2 comments:

MizB said...

Thanks for joining in on the challenge, Joanna! :D

I love that your list is alphabetized! Very cool! (I may have to go back and re-do my list, and put it in alphabetical order... that'd make it easier to find things, for sure!) :D

joanna said...

Thanks! :-) I'm such a nerd! :-) I'm planning on keeping this list long so it had to be organised in some way...