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Nancy Pearl's Book Lust lists books by various categories. Now it's your turn! What are your favorite books in these categories?Can You Pick One? - Book Lust with Nancy Pearl


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

-Roberta

Trinity, Leon Uris

-Liz

Tai-pan, James Clavell
- Folkrockman

The English Passengers
--Bookworm

Tammy
Cloudsplitter - 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

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 Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
- Scott F

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:

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

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 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

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:


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


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As a retired teacher, I think that, 'And No More Sorrow' is a must read for every 5th through 12th grader. Adults also should take note of this true story. Students and adults will feel a surge of gratitude. Sonja, the main character in 'And No More Sorrow,' teaches the reader that ultimately it's friends, love and family that motivate and guide us through our most challenging moments. These words come to mind: inspiring, brave and forgiving. Well done.
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