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Favorite Books by Category
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:
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
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- talk about having to grow up! :(
The Power of One
- A.W.
Lucky, Alice Sebold
-Jenny
Historical Fiction:
A. D. 62: Pompeii, Rebecca East-Roberta
Trinity, Leon Uris
-Liz
Tai-pan, James Clavell
- Folkrockman
The English Passengers
--Bookworm
Tammy
Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
Mad4music
Desiree -- Annemarie Selinko
Dramatic Works:
Waiting for Godot, Beckett-Liz
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
-Roo
Hamlet
-Annabel
Mystery:
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson-Liz
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
-Rosencrantz
Anything by Agatha Christie
-Otis
Anything by Laurie R. King
-Will
Tammy
The Club Dumas - Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl
The Moors - Laurie R. King
Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Adventure:
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster-Liz
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
-Roo
Gulliver's Travels
-Anna
Tammy
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Romance:
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:
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:
Anything by Isaac Asimov
-Amanda
Dune by Frank Herbert
-Will
Tammy
Perdido 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 Incarnations of Immortality Series by Piers Anthony
-Chris
The Tales of Alvin Maker by Orson Scott Card
-Will
Tammy
Little, Big - John Crowley
The Scar - China Mieville
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
Arthurian Fiction:
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
-Will
Poetry:
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
-Will
Collected Poemsby W.B. Yeats
-Amanda
Napolean's Buttons: 17 Molecules that Changed History, by Penny LeCouteur and Jay Burseo
- Karen
Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach.
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
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Non Fiction: Science
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
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