Nancy Pearl's Book Lust lists books by various categories. Now it's your turn! What are your favorite books in these categories?
Coming of age:
A Home At The End Of The World - Michael Cunningham
- Scott F
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Chbosky
-R.M.
The Tender Bar by JR Moehringer
-Liz
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
-jillian
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Path
- because you feel her roller-coaster emotions so severely as she becomes a young woman
- M
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- talk about having to grow up! :(
- R
The Power of One- A.W.
Lucky, Alice Sebold
-Jenny
Historical Fiction:
Tree Of Man - Patrick White
- Scott F
A. D. 62: Pompeii, Rebecca East -RobertaTrinity, Leon Uris
-Liz
Tai-pan, James Clavell
- Folkrockman
The English Passengers--Bookworm
TammyCloudsplitter - Russell Banks
Mad4music
Desiree -- Annemarie Selinko
Dramatic Works:
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
Waiting for Godot, Beckett
-Liz
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
-Roo
Hamlet
-Annabel
Mystery:
Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow - Peter Hoeg
- Scott F
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
-Liz
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
-Rosencrantz
Anything by Agatha Christie
-Otis
Anything by
Laurie R. King-Will
TammyThe Club Dumas - Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl
The Moors - Laurie R. King
Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Adventure:
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
- Scott F
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
-Liz
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
-Roo
Gulliver's Travels
-Anna
TammyTreasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Romance:
Oscar & Lucinda - Peter Carey
- Scott F
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
-Roo
The Thorn Birds
-Rosencrantz
The Far Pavilions M.M.Kaye
-Amanda
I'll vote for
The Far Pavilions. Great choice!
-Will
Russian:
The Brothers Karamazov
-Roo
Invitation to a Beheading by Nabokov
-Rosencrantz
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
-Amaris
Biography:
Genet - Edmund White
- Scott F
The Sisters (bio of the Mitford family) by Mary S Lovell
-Rosencrantz
Savage Beauty (bio of Edna St. Vincent Millay) by Nancy Milford
-Oliver
Science Fiction:
Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
- Scott F
Anything by Isaac Asimov
-Amanda
Dune by Frank Herbert
-Will
TammyPerdido Street Station - China Mieville
A Fire Upon The Deep - Vernor Vinge
Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Island of Doctor Moreau - H.G. Wells
The Eyre Affiar - Jasper Fforde
Fantasy:
The Dark Tower series - Stephen King
- Scott F
The Incarnations of Immortality Series by Piers Anthony
-Chris
The
Tales of Alvin Maker by Orson Scott Card
-Will
TammyLittle, Big - John Crowley
The Scar - China Mieville
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
Arthurian Fiction:
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
-Will
Poetry:
Selected Poems by Gwen Harwood
- Scott F
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
-Will
Collected Poemsby W.B. Yeats
-Amanda
Non Fiction: Science
A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
- Scott F
Napolean's Buttons: 17 Molecules that Changed History, by Penny LeCouteur and Jay Burseo
- Karen
Ecological Inspiration
Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach.
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
New topic? Go for it!