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Favorite Book Club Books

Ptaylor2 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:59:43 CDT

Here are some recent popular choices by book clubs. Have a favorite? Add it to the list!

The Electric Michaelangelo
Kafka on the Shore
Shadow of the Wind
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Never Let Me Go
Shipping News
Clara Callan
The Secrets of Jin Shei by Alma Alexander
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Complete Short Stories of Truman Capote
Turn, Magic Wheel by Dawn Powell
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
The Canongate Myth Series
The Maharishi Effect by Geoff Gilpin
Gossamer by Lois Lowry (YA)
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Stop That Girl by Elizabeth McKenzie
The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
The MouseDriver Chronicles
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The Island by Victoria Hislop
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Twist of Gold by Michael Morpurgo
The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
Thinks by David Lodge
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (a play actually)
A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime by Mark Haddon
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Folded World by Amity Gaige
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf
The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Did I Expect Angels? by kathryn Maughan
West With the Night by Beryl Markham
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Fat Girl by Judith Moore
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
People Of The Book by Geraldine Brooks
Three Cups Of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Dreamers of the Day by Maria Doria Russell
Fledgling Jason Steed. Mark A Cooper
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
One True Thing by Anna Quindlan
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Finding Heaven Hereby John Robinson
Away by Amy Bloom
The Brief Wonderous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Lecouteur
Tales from a Traveling Couch: A Psychotherapists Revisits his Most Memorable Patients by Robert U. Akeret
One Thousand White Woman: Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister's Memoir by Heather Summerhayes Cariou--What is your book club reading? Post a comment or review, or click the "EasyEdit" button to add to this list.
AThousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer & Barrows
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Magic Time by Doug Marlette
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
March by Geraldine Brooks
The House on Tradd Street by Karen White
Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell
Carved in the Bone by Jefferson Bass
The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Has your club read any of these books? Share the reactions, both positive and negative.

Nancy in the News

mamaba — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:46:10 CDT

Recent articles on Nancy Pearl and the Book Lust series

Congratulations to Nancy!
Nancy was recently honored for her remarkable achievements by EveryWomansVoice.com in the site's "Women We Love" series. Read Nancy's “Women We Love” profile

Does Nancy inspire you to do something extraordinary? Share your congratulations or reasons why Nancy has inspired you.

National Public Radio: Spring 2007: "Under the Radar: Books Not to Miss."
National Public Radio: Summer 2005: "Adventures to read all summer long."
National Public Radio: July 2006, "Caution: These books may make you want to skip work."*
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
USA Today
The Seattle Channel
Minneapolis Public Library news
Library Dust news
Phoenix Arizona
The Courier Mail

Favorite Books by Category

ScottFlaherty — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:21:18 CDT

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
-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

New topic? Go for it!

Desert Island Books

ScottFlaherty — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:01:40 CDT

Scott F's Desert Island Books
1. "The Secret History" - Donna Tartt
2. "A Prayer For Owen Meany" - John Irving
3. "The Line Of Beauty" - Alan Hollinghurst
4. "Imajica" - Clive Barker
5. "The Talisman" - Stephen King & Peter Straub
6. "A Man In Full" - Tom Wolfe
7. "The Unconsoled" - Kazuo Ishiguro
8. "A Short History Of Almost Everything" - Bill Bryson
9. "Beloved" - Toni Morrison
10. "The Known World" - Edward P Jones

SandieH's Desert Island Books

1. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. Gone With Wind by Margaret Mitchell
3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. North and South by John Jakes
5. A Good Dictionary
6. Stands a Calder Man by Janet Dailey
7. Emma by Jane Austen
8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
9. Roget's International Thesaurus
10. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Far Side Gallery - Larson
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction - Howard Irving Chapelle
Survive on a Desert Island - Claire Llewellyn
SAS Survival Guide: How to Survive Anywhere, on Land or at Sea - John Wiseman
Beating Boredom Creating Interest - M Thomas Russell
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Creative Writing Coursebook: - Andrew Motion and Julia Bell
Complete Works Shakespeare
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Make Way for Lucia -- E.F. Benson (You can read from beginning to end, then start again and never stop laughing.)
The Ambassadors -- Henry James

Of Human Bondage Somerset Maugham

A Winter in the Hills John Wain

Rabbit IsRich John Updike

Humboldt's Gift Saul Bellow

Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann

Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence

Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy

Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie

A Long Way to Shiloh Lionel Davidson

Theology and Sanity Frank Sheed
If you were stranded on a desert island with only 10 books to read, which would you want?

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Anonymous List: No Order. It's hard enough already!
1. The Bible (NKJV)
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
3. A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
4. The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin, Jr.
5. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
6. The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
7. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
8. Shardik by Richard Adams (the single best book for re-reading I have come across!)
9. The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
10. The Book of Sorrows by Walter Wangerin, Jr. (So I can find out what happened to the animals from "Dun Cow"!)

Michele's must-bring books that live in teen, young adult, or junvenile book sections

1. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
2. Garth Nix - Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen
3. Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials series
4. Susan Cooper - the Dark is Rising series
5. Fire and Hemlock - Diane Wynne Jones
6. And Then they were Young - Madeline L'Engle
7. Harry Potter series
8. Hero and the Crown - McKillip
9. The Wee Free men - Pratchett
10. Zuzak - The Book Thief

Tammy's Tomes

1. Little, Big - John Crowley
2. Tom Jones- Henry Fielding
3. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
4. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
5. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
6. Borderland Trilogy - Cormac McCarthy
7. Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
8. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
9. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
10. The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx

Victoria's Must Reads When Stranded On an Island: (No Order)

1. My Name is Asher Lev- Chaim Potok
2. Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
3. Everything is Illuminated- JonathanSafran Foer
4. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
5. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
6. Complete Works of Ian McEwan
7. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
8. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
9. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

If I could add a number 11, I would actually say the complete Harry Potter books, though 7 isn't out and I feel odd for liking them so much. Anywho . . . .

Suzanne's Top 10 - not necessarily for desert island but for the impact they've had on my world view

1-3 The Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders)
by Robertson Davies.
4 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
5-6 Without End by Adam Zagajewski and Poems New and Collected by Wislawa
Szymborksa.
7 Broken April by Ismail Kadare.
8 The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski.
9 Swann by Carol Shields.
10 A History of God by Karen Armstrong.

A Barnes and Noble Bookslave's Favorites (no order):
1. The Brothers K, David James Duncan
2. The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
3. The Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake
4. Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson
5. The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, JRR Tolkien
6. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
7. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
8. Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
9. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Phillip Gourevitch
10. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Roberta's list - intelligent love stories-
1. Pride and Prejudice/ Jane Austen
2. Shogun / James Clavell
3. Jane Eyre / Bronte
4. A. D. 62: Pompeii / Rebecca East
5. Till Morning Comes / Han Suyin
6. All This and Heaven Too / Rachel Field
7. The King's General / Daphne du Maurier
8. Fly Away Home / Marge Piercy
9. A Town Like Alice / Neville Shute
10. Antonia / Brenda Jagger

Sarah's mind-altering books:
1. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
2. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
3. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
5. Pretty Birds by Scott Simon
6. Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
7. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
8. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
9. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
10. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

mjdq's quicklist which surprised even myself:
1. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
2. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
3. The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
4. Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier, by Joanna L. Stratton
5. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
7. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
8. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
9. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
10. Middlemarch, by George Eliot

John's Desert Island Selections:
1. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
2. Cherry by Mary Karr
3. Chronicle of Youth by Vera Brittain
4. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
6. Liar’s Club by Mary Karr
7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
8. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
9. The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennet
10. West with the Night by Beryl Markham

Onering's Desert Island Selection:

1. Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis

Bluestalking Reader's Desert Island Selection

(I'm planning on being marooned a LONG, LONG time...)

1. The Complete Works of Shakespeare (fully annotated of COURSE)
2. The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Oxford Illustrated Edition)
3. All Virginia Woolf's fiction and non-fiction (not picky about edition)
4. Hermione Lee's biography of Virginia Woolf
5. All William Faulkner's fiction and non-fiction (Library of America for the fiction, please)
6. A good bio of Faulkner
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
10. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

N.B.: Looking at the list above, I think I know what made my boat crash into the desert island in the first place... ;-)

Would also like a big crate of notebooks and pens to wash ashore with me, if it's not too much trouble. Thanks very much.

Leslie's Favorite Books

1. Oxford English Dictionary
2. The Master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov
3. The Last Temptation of Christ / Nikos Kazantzakis
4. Complete Works of T.S. Eliot
5. The Lord of the Rings triology / J.R.R. Tolkien
6. Bleak House / Charles Dickens
7. The Iliad / Homer
8. Good Poems / Garrison Keillor
9. Winnie the Pooh / A.A. Milne
10. The Book of Common Prayer (1928 edition)

Amy's Favorite Books : )
1. The Dragonlance Chronicles by Mercedes Lackey
2. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
by Helen Fielding
3. The Poisonwood Bible
4. Rescue Me by Gigi Levange-Grazier
5. To the Nines by Janet Evanovich
6. Native Tongue by Carl Haaisen
7. The Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
8. Blackberry Wine by JoAnne Harris
9. Watermelon by Jane Green
10. Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner

PB's Favorites (no order)
1. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
2. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
4. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
5. Devil In the White City - Eric Larson
6. The Lover - Margeurite Duras
7. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safer Foer
8. The Volcano Lover - Susan Sontag
9. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
10. The Bible

Linda's Picks (no order)
1. Infinite Jest - Daviad Foster Wallace
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Being Dead - Jim Crace
4. The Last of the Just - Bart Schwartz
5. Geek Love - Katherine Dunne
6. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
7. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
8. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
9. Alice Munro - Any Stories
10. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Anonymous's Top Ten Picks:

1. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman

2. The Master and Margarita

3. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

5. Another Country by James Baldwin

6. Borges The Collected Fictions

7. Kushiels Dart by Jaqueline Carey

8. The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte (or really anything he's written)

9. Bridge to Terabethia (sp?)

10. The Powerbook by Jeannette Winterson (or really anything she's written)

Sand Dune Reader: (in no particular order)
1. Gone with the Wind (being stranded allows time to read a saga)
2. Gulliver's Travels
3. Complete collection of Tony Hillerman mysteries
4. The Tempest
5. A collection of poems by Robert Frost
6. Atlas of World Art
7. Encyclopedia of Aquaculture
8. Mosby's Medical Dictionary
9. Lord of the Flies (in case there are others on the island)
10. Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Booklady's Top Ten: (in no particular order)
1. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
2. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
3. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. The Bible
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7. The Giver by Lois Lowry
8. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
9. The Hobbit by Tolkien
10. An Agatha Christie Omnibus

Some English Teacher's Top 10:
1. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
3. When I was Five I Killed Myself by Howard Button
4. Othello by William Shakespeare
5. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin
6. Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
7. Deliverance by James Dickey
8. 100 Best Poems by E. E. Cummings
9. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
10. 1984 by George Orwell

Guybrarian's Top 10 Picks:
(not all-time faves, necessarily, but desert island books)
1. The Oxford English Dictionary
2. Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust (might even read it)
3. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton
5. The Grove Centenary Edition of Samuel Beckett
6. The Complete Plays of Euripides
7. Haiku (in 4 vols), by R.H. Blyth
8. The Great Thoughts, George Selden, ed.
9. The SAS Survival Handbook, by John 'Lofty' Wiseman.
10. One huge, vast blank book of about a million ruled pages (in several volumes).

JulieK's Top 10 Picks:
1. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
4. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
5. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
6. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Edited by Arnold Rampersad
7. The Complete Works of Kate Chopin
8. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
9. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
10.The Odyssey by Homer

Harsh Mulik's Top 10 picks (11/28/2006)
1. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
2. Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
3. Early Ayn Rand - Ayn Rand
4. Anthem - Ayn Rand
5. Les Miserables- Victor Hugo
6. O'Henry's Plays- O'Henry
7. Dialogues (with Socrates) - Plato
8. Human Action - Ludwig Von Mises
9. The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
10. Diamonds are Forever - Ian Fleming
(This is a little different list then all the others here. My idea is that it should be a book that you can read over and over again, as you have lots of time on your hands.)

Anonymous' Top 10:
1. The Quran
2. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy ("a trilogy in five parts") - Douglas Adams
3. Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
4. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
5. All the King's Men
6. Lord of the Rings (the trilogy)
7. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
8. My Life - Bill Clinton
9. Diwan-e-Iqbal (complete collection of Sir Muhammed Iqbal) who was Iqbal you might ask? (Link)
10. Khud-kalaami ('Talking to Self' ) by Parveen Shakir

Anonymous' Top 10:

1. Holy Bible
2. I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
3. Gone With the Wind by Mitchell
4. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
5. The Stand by Stephen King
6 The Complete William Shakespeare
7. Lonesome Dove Series
8. Marley and Me
9. The Kite Runner
10. Eddie's Bastard

AlexB's Top 10 (in no particular order)
1. Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough
2. The Front Runner
3. Truman (not read yet, but taunting me from my nightstand)
4. Me Talk Pretty One Day, Sedaris
5. River of Doubt
6. The Stand, Stephen King
7. Pretty much anything by Nick Hornby
8. Pretty much anything by Augusten Burroughs
9. From Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik
10. Something from this list that I am embarrassed to say I haven't read (and there are many)

IggyMommy's Top 10
1. John MacArthur Study Bible in NKJV
2. Parallel Bible with KJV, NIV, Amplified, Living or Message
3. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
4. Shakespeare’s Plays
5. All of Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. The Divine Comedy by Alghieri Dante
7. The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
8. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
9. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
10. Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

Alex's Top 10
1. Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
2. Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
3. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway
4. Pale Fire, Nabokov
5. Dead Souls, Gogol
6. The Odyssey, Homer (the new Fagles Translation)
7. Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
8. Collected poems of e.e. cummings
9. Voyage To The Sea of Cortez, J. Steinbeck
10. War and Peace, Tolstoy

Carrie's Top 10 (and not necessarily in order):
1. NIV of the Bible
2. Fahrenheit 451
3. any Stephen Lawhead book
4. any Stephen Bly book
5. any Sigmund Brouwer book
6. any book by J.R.R. Tolkien
7. any book by Mary Roberts Rinehart
8. any book by Alexander Dumas
9. any Captain Underpants book
10. any book by Dorothy Cannell

Taya's Top 10:
1. Holy Bible
2. Lets Roll by Lisa Beamer
3. Dreadnought by Massie
4. Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
5. A Bridge too Far by Ryan
6. Wuthering Heights by Bronte
7. Pride and Prejudice by Austen
8. Nicholas Nickelby by Dickens
9. Pendragon Cycle by Lawhead
10. Katherine by Seton
(Too bad the list isn't for 20 books.......)

Mo's Top Ten:
1.Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson
2.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3.The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
4. Complete W. Shakespeare
5.New Testament
6.P.G.Wodehouse Omnibus
7.The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8.Complete Milly Molly Mandy by Joyce Lankester Brisley
9. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
10.Comprehensive Poetry Anthology (where to find it?)

Sean Beesley's (November) Top 10:
1. The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas
3. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
4. The Clouds Should Know Me By Now: Buddhist Poet Monks of China
5. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
6. If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi
7. Rattle Bag, Edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes
8. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
9. Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
10. Relativity Visualized by Lewis C Epstein

JA's Top 10 picks:
1. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
2. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
3. The Stand by Stephen King
4. A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
5. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
6. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
7. Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
8. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
9. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
10. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

Hali Bey's Top 10:

1. Lolita by Nabokov

2. Perfect Day for Banana Fish by J.D Salinger

3. Poem Anthology by Pablo Neruda

4. Possession by A.S. Byatt

5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

6. Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

7. Breakfast of Tiffany's by Truman Capote

8. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

9. Pale Fire by Nabokov

10. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Rosencrantz's Top 10:

1. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard (hence the name...)
2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
3. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
4. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5. A Winter's Tale by Shakespeare
6. Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
7. Saturday by Ian McEwan
8. A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
9. Emma by Jane Austen
10. Cantos by Ezra Pound

gigandotis' Quick Top 10:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
3. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
4. The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
6. The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
8. The Temple of my Familiar by Alice Walker
9. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by
Sherman Alexie
10. something epic I haven't yet read ??????

Easterntimes's Top 10 (but it changes every couple of weeks...)
1. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
2. The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
3. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

4. What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
5. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
6. An Agatha Christie Omnibus :-)
7. Mary Poppins by PL Travers
8. Loitering with Intent, Memento Mori or any such Muriel Spark
9. Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
10. some perfect history of the world which I haven't come across yet...

creativeimagination's 10 Desert Island Picks
1) Pride & Prejudice
2) The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
3) Crime and Punishment
4) The Know-It-All
5) The Holy Bible
6) Memoirs of a Geisha
7) The Poisonwood Bible by Barbra Kingsolver
8) A Night Without Armor by Jewel
9) The Great Gatsby
10) Fahrenheit 451

Leabharcailin's Top 10 (nothing fancy here, folks):
1. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
2. Japanese Design by Sarah Lonsdale
3. The Bride's Kimono by Sujata Massey
4. The Death of Bernadette Lefthand by Ron Querry
5. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
6. Any novel featuring Stephanie Plum, Janet Evanovich's bounty hunter
7. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt
8. Whispers of the Dead: 15 Sister Fidelma Mysteries by Peter Tremayne
9. Anything featuring Anne Perry's characters Thomas and Charlotte Pitt
10. Murder on Washington Square by Victoria Thompson

Roo's Top 10:
1. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
2. A Moveable Feast by Hemingway
3. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
4. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
5. Hamlet
6. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
7. Lolita by Nabokov
8. Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
9. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
10. Metamorphoses by Ovid

hopewell's Top 10:
1. Bible
2. No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
3. Eleanor Roosevelt by Cook
4. Matriarch by Edwards
5. Gone With The Wind
6. Eric by Doris Lund
7. Journey by Massie
8. Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
9. The Joyous Season by Patrick Dennis
10. And the Ladies of the Club

Ray's Top 10 :
1. The Rabbit Novels : John Updike
2. East of Eden : John Steinbeck
3. Sophie's Choice : William Styron
4. Look Homeward Angel : Thomas Wolfe
5. Long Walk To freedom : Nelson Mandela
6. On The Road : Jack Kerouac
7. The Magic Mountain : Thomas Mann
8. The Beak of the Finch : Jonathan Weiner
9. Passage To Juneau : Jonathan Raban
10. The Worst Journey in the World : Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Leisa’s Top 10:
1. Participating in Nature: Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide to Primitive Living Skills
2. Selected Verse of CJ Dennis
3. The Mysterious Stranger and other stories – Mark Twain
4. Daughter of Fortune –Isabel Allende
5. A Portrait in Sepia – Isabel Allende
6. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
7. Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle - Dervla Murphy
8. On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of South India - Dervla Murphy
9. In Ethiopia with a Mule - Dervla Murphy
10. Darling Buds of May – H.E. Bates.

Hilda's Top 10:
1. The World According to Garp - John Irving
2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3. Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. My Life - Bill Clinton
6. Madame Secretary - Madeline Albright
7. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
8. Don Quixote - Cervantes
9. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
10. Dance of the Dissident Daughter - Sue Monk Kidd

emergent's Top 10::
1. The Magus - John Fowles
2. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
3. Underworld - Don DeLillo
4. A Hilltop on the Marne - Mildred Aldrich
5. Damascus Gate - Robert Stone
6. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
7. Complete Works of Rilke - R.M. Rilke
8. Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves
9. Seven Storey Mountain - Thomas Merton
10. Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbons

Dr. Bill's Top 10 (at this moment on 9/5/06):
1. Complete Works of Shakespeare (is that cheating?)
2. A Death in the Family, by James Agee
3. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
4. A Soldier of the Great War, by Mark Helprin
5. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
6. Don Quixote, by Cervantes
7. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
8. His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass), by Philip Pullman (amazing stuff!)
9. All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
10. Watership Down, by Richard Adams
I agree with Heidi below: Fools Crow is the best book about Native-American life and culture you will ever read.

Alyson's Top 10:
1. Possession, by AS Byatt
2. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
3. Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens
4. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
5. Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
6. Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingslover
7. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
8. Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
9. Palace Walk, by Naguib Mahfouz
10. Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

Heidi's Top 10:
1. The Power of One, by Bryce Courtney
2. The Brothers K, by David James Duncan
3. The Virginian, by Owen Wister
4. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
5. The English Passengers, by Matthew Kneale
6. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
7. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (sp?)
9. Fool’s Crow, by James Welch
10. North to the Night, Alvah Simon (great real-life adventure story!)

Julia's Top 10:
1. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
2. Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Green
3. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
4. Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen
5. Anne of Green Gables (the complete series), by L.M. Montgomery
6. Will it Be Okay?, by Crescent Dragonwagon
7. The House at Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne
8. Wicked: The Secret Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire
9. Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
10. The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis

Courtney's Top 10:
1. The Cider House Rules, by John Irving
2. Iona Moon, by Melanie Rae Thon
3. Wide Open, by Nicola Barker
4. Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen
5. London Fields, by Martin Amis
6. The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene
7. Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
8. You Shall Know Our Velocity, by Dave Eggers
9. Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, by Deborah Madison
10. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

Jeff's Top 10:
1. Jesus' Son, by Denis Johnson
2. The Counterlife, by Philip Roth
3. Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler
5. Chronicles Volume 1, by Bob Dylan
6. Nine Stories, by J.D. Salinger
7. The Essential Tales of Chekhov (edited by Richard Ford)
8. Where I'm Calling From, by Raymond Carver
9. Selected Stories, by Alice Munro
10. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Violet Spy's Desert Island Top 10:
1. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
2. The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford
3. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
4. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
5. The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan
6. Picnic, Lightning, by Billy Collins
7. The Fool's Progress, by Edward Abbey
8. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. Maps of the Imagination, by Peter Turchi
10. Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner

Henry's Top 10:
1. All the King's Men
2. Birds Without Wings
3. The Iliad
4. The Odyssey
5. Aeneid
6. David Copperfield
7. Anna Karenina
8. Henry Esmund
9. I, Claudius
10. Beloved

Patty's Top 10:
1. Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
2. The Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders), Robertson Davies
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
4. English Passengers, Matthew Kneale
5. Independent People, Halldor Laxness
6. Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
7. Waterland, Graham Swift
8. The Sheltering Sky, Peter Bowles
9. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
10. As I Lay Dying, William Faulker (I know, I know, like drinking bleach!)

Sarah's Top 10: (Clearly no cookbooks. I am on a lonely island so I don't have to be high-brow. But I will be entertained!)
1. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
2. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
3. The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer
4. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
5. The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
6. The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan
7. The Years of Lyndon Johnson,Robert A. Caro (Three volumes)
8. Dalva, Jim Harrison
9. The Family, The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, Kitty Kelley
10. Sackett, (and any other related Western in this series), Louis L'Amour

Sillybridget Bridget's Top 10 (please, no seawater on the books!)

1. Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro
2. the Manawaka books, Margaret Laurence
3. Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
4. Ulysses, James Joyce (b/c if I was on a desert island, I would have no excuse but to read it!)
5. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder (maybe it will teach me how to rough it...)
...more to come, this is just too much pressure! I have to go home & check my bookshelves...

Anonymous' Top 10: (I would need old classics to inspire me...)
1. Great Expectations, Charles Dickins
2. Works of Edgar Allen Poe
3. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
4. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
5. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
6. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
8. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin
9. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

NWgirl's Top 10:
1. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
2. Heartsong of Charging Elk, James Welch
3. House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
4. Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
5. Crescent, Diana Abu-Jaber
6. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
7. To Serve them All My Days, R. F. Delderfield
8. My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin
9. Centennial, James Michener
10. Razor's Edge, Somerset Maugham

Christina's Top 10 Fiction (in no particular order):
1. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
2. The Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
3. The Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
4. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

5. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
6. Persuasion, Jane Austen
7. Sister of My Heart, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
8. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
9. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
10. Roanoke, Angela Hunt

Anonymous' Top 10:
1. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
2. The Ciderhouse Rules- John Irving
3. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. How the Grinch Stole Christmas- Dr.Seuss
5. A Light in the Attic - Shel Silverstein
6. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
7. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
8. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
9. Trinity - Leon Uris
10. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson

omphaloskeptic's Top 10 (for 10/23/06, in no special order...this was difficult!):
1. Middlemarch - George Eliot

2. Modern Library's old single-volume Complete Works of Jane Austen
3. Precious Bane - Mary Webb
4. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
5. Les Liaisons dangereuses - Choderlos de Laclos
6. A solid P.G. Wodehouse omnibus
7. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (1940 Everyman single-volume edition - only a small portion of her work, but a nice selection!)
8. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
9. A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
10. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Martin's Top 10:
1. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. Collected works - Arthur Rimbaud
3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
4. L'Stranger - Albert Camus
5. Saint Genet - Jean Paul Sarte
6. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
7.History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
8. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
9. A la Reche du Temps Perdu - Proust
10. The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot

XTerminal Terminal's Top 10
(in no order, save perhaps that on which they'd take up space on the lone bookshelf on the island)

1. Wendy Walker, The Secret Service
2. Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West
3. Kathe Koja, Strange Angels
4. Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle
5. Hayden Carruth, Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991
6. Marcel Proust, A La Recherche du Temps Perdu (I'll finally have time to read it!)
7. Clive Barker, Sacrament
8. Peter Sotos, Total Abuse: Collected Writings 1984-1995
9. China Mieville, Perdido Street Station
10. The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy

Sluggy's Top 10:
My top 10 books for the desert island would depend on the circumstances--am I alone or do I have company? If the latter, I might include a couple of books on loving other people! Also, I'm assuming we're excluding books about building rafts or spearing fish or making salt water drinkable....
1. Bible--NIV, though I might be tempted to read the Message (a paraphrase of the Bible by Eugene Peterson)...maybe I'd finally have time to memorize the whole Bible!
2. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (for adventure and Jamie Fraser)
3. King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (for deep and dynamic characters and relationships)
4. William Barclay's book of daily prayer (for expression of practical human needs, and for when I'm too tired to pray on my own)
5. Good Poems, edited by Garrison Keillor (for the beauty of words and images)
6. Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (for courage and a good biography)
7. Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins (need to keep a sense of humor)
8. scrapbook filled with photos and written memories of family and friends
9. Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott (or another good book on writing)
10. If there are other people on the island, a book of games to play!

Kate T.'s Top 10 Desert Island Books (I really had trouble limiting this to 10...hope I don't get stuck on an island anytime soon...)

1. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
2. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
3. Pope Joan by Donna Cross
4. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
5. A People's History of the U.S. by Howard Zinn
6. The Stand by Stephen King
7. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
8. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
9. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
10. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman

Will's top ten (I cheated and put in some series, since I saw others had included Tolkien's Ring trilogy, for instance):
1. The Oxford English Dictionary
2. Dune by Frank Herbert
3. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
4. Tolkien's Ring trilogy
5. Body and Soul by Frank Conroy
6. Roger Zelazny's original Amber series
7. Anything by Laurie R. King
8. Orson Scott Card's Tales of Alvin Maker series
9. Any compendium of Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee and Lieutenant Leaphorn mysteries
10. Any of Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, with The Nine Tailors as my first choice

Stomfi's Top Ten
1. Survive on a Desert Island by Claire Llewellyn
2. Glory Road by Robert Hienlen
3. Puzzle Power by Terry H Stickels
4. Arabian Nights translated by Sir Richard Burton
5. General Semantics by Count Korzybski
6. Nights Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton
7. Pears Cyclopedia latest edition
8. Spanish for Dummies by Susana Wald
9. The Complete Costume History by Francios Tetart-Vittu
10.The Dhammapada the teachings of Prince Siddartha

Markonen's Top Ten
1. The Bible (NASB)
2. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
3. Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevski
4. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
5. The Holy War by John Bunyan
6. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
7. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
8. Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ by John Piper
9. The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
10. The Golden Booklet of the Christian Life by John Calvin

Sleepydumpling's Top Ten
(in no particular order)
1. Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
2. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Series - Douglas Adams
5. The Silver Metal Lover - Tanith Lee
6. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
7. Dirt Music - Tim Winton
8. Tomorrow When the War Began series - John Marsden
9. The Commitments/The Snapper/The Van - Roddy Doyle
10. Harp in the South/Poor Man's Orange - Ruth Park

Kathleen Sullivan's Top Ten
1. Sherlock Holmes' Short Stories- Arthur Conan Doyle
2. A Civil Contract- Georgette Heyer
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Poetry - Emily Bronte
5. The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
6. The Golf Omnibus- P.G. Wodehouse
7. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
9. The Bible
10. Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers

dvance's Top Ten Books - probably wouldn't hurt to bring a book about surviving on a desert island, but would rather have these:

1. The Bible
2. Gone with the Wind
3. One Wore Blue - trilogy by Heather Graham
4. Anything by Stuart Woods
5. Anything by Michael Connelly
6. Anything by Janet Evanovich
7. Anything by Meg Cabot
8. Anything by Nelson Demille
9. Anything by Sandra Brown
10. Anything by Jennifer Crusie

Keris's Top 10 (not in order)

1. In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner

2. Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes

3. A Princess Diaries omnibus (is that cheating? I don't care) by Meg Cabot

4. Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About by Mil Millington (very funny)

5. Asta's Book by Barbara Vine

6. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

7. The Joy Diet by Martha Beck

8. An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan

9. One for my Baby by Tony Parsons

10. The West Wing scripts by Aaron Sorkin (instead of a TV)

Adam's Top 10

1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

2. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

3. Underworld by Don DeLillo

4. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

5. The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth

6. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

7. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

8. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

9. White Noise by Don DeLillo

10. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Cos's Desert Island Picks
Not in any order
1. Don Quixote by Cervantes
2. Les Miserables by Hugo
3. Three Musketeers by Dumas
4.. The Giver By Lowery
5. Breadfruit Bread and Papaya Pie (need at least one cookbook)
6. A Town LIke Alice by Schute
7. Mrs. Mike by Flannigan
8. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Hemingway
9. White Dragon by McCaffrey
10. The Thornbirds by McCullough

Laurie's Top Ten
1. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
2. West with the Night by Beryl Markham
3. Possession by A. S. Byatt
4. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
5. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
6. Dune by Frank Herbert
7. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
8. Lolita by Vladimir Nobokov
9. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
10. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner

Bookbelle's Desert Island Books1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson (or A Walk in the Woods)
4. The Opposite of Fate OR The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
5. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
6. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
7. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Nicholas Eggers (or his McSweeney's collection)
8. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
9. East of Eden or The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
10. A collection of Mary Oliver's poetry

Julie's Desert Island List

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy -- J.R.R. Tolkien

A Wizard of Earthsea -- Ursula K. Le Guin

The Ropemaker -- Peter Dickinson

Sabriel -- Garth Nix

The Chosen -- Chaim Potok

The Chronicles of Narnia (all 7!) -- C.S. Lewis

The Dark is Rising -- Susan Cooper

Tu -- Patricia Grace

Tom's Midnight Garden -- Philippa Pearce Swallows and Amazons -- Arthur Ransome

Tracy's Desert Island List
1. River God - Wilbur Smith
2. The Ladies of Missalongi or Angel Puss - Colleen McCullough
3. Any Stephanie Plum novel - Janet Evanovich
4. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquival
5. The next Corrinna Chapman novel - Kerry Greenwood
6. What look's like crazy on an ordinary day - Pearl Cleage
7. T is for ... - Sue Grafton
8. The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
9. The Belgariad series - David Eddings
10.The Lonely Planet Guide to Desert Islands

Oberon's List

Gilead by Marilynn Robinson
Stone Angel by Carrol O'Connell (Any book of hers will do!)
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Sailing to Sarantium/Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
Metzger's Dog/Vanishing Act by Thomas Perry
The Mirror of Her Dreams/A Man Rides Through by Stephen R. Donaldson
Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
From Wild Man to Wise Man by Richard Rohr and Joseph Martos
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Now if I were actually stranded on the island primitive-like, I would prefer The Boy Scout Handbook over the Richard Rohr book! Practicalities, you know!

Out of Print Books

IslandWriter — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:33:04 CDT

Are you looking for a book that's out of print? Maybe there's someone out there who is willing to sell you an old copy--or has tips on where to find one.

Tips for Finding Books:

MissRoo says: I have used BookFinder (www.bookfinder.com) in the past to find out-of-print books. Also, some of my friends use AbeBooks (www.abebooks.com) to hunt down those rare and out-of-print treasures.

IslandWriter: I always go to the Barnes and Noble website (www.bn.com) They have a used book section there where you can find used and out of print books sold by reputable used book sellers, through BN. So far, I have not been disappointed!
WPA books: I am hunting for the American Guide series to the states. The books that interest me are first editions, with good dust jackets and (if appropriate) maps in the back. If you have any of them on your shelves, let me know. We just might have a deal! Doug.

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Julia says: I would love to find a reasonably-priced copy of Crescent Dragonwagon's children's book, Will It Be Okay? Any ideas? Somehow this book got donated to an elementary school library some years ago, and I wish to have a copy for my future children.

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Hennepin County Library

Hennepin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:14:45 CDT

Check out our Readers Advisory services for adults at BookSpace, for teens at TeenLinks, for kids at KidLinks, and for Birth to Six. You can also find a list of RSS feeds you can subscribe to on our site.

On BookSpace, librarians post to blogs about Fiction; Mysteries/Thrillers/Suspense; Romance; Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror; Nonfiction; and Graphic Novels. These blogs can be sampled in the above RSS feed and can be subscribed to individually. Each of these categories also include booklists by staff and customers as well as recommended websites to explore these genres and formats. BookSpace also includes information on searching for books, new titles, book clubs, listening to books, and researching books and authors.

BookSpace and TeenLinks allow our customers to create readers' lists which can be posted publicly for sharing for adults and for teens.

Hennepin County Library's catalog (accessed through BookSpace or the catalog itself) allows users to leave comments on items in our collection and to subscribe to author alerts to let customers know when we order a book by a favorite author or performer for our collection. We also have adult and teen Book Club Kits available for checkout, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as some kits in large print format.

You can find us on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and on MySpace as well. For more information about Hennepin County Library visit our main website at www.hclib.org

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BLOOD LUST by K. Celeste Bryan
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Celestrial Books: http://www.celestrial.com
Read an Excerpt:

Stifling her cravings, Larissa scuffed across the cobblestone walkway with her hands in her pockets and the hood pulled over her head, hoping to dispel the restive longing. The pathway was deserted except for three people sitting on a bench a block away. From this distance, she didn’t know if they were male, female or a combination, and it was too late for her to alter course. They came to their feet, robotically, she thought, and looked in her direction. Obviously they’d seen her despite the light fog rolling in from the river.

Her intention to walk past them at a brisk pace was quickly squashed as they blocked the path before her. “If you only knew,” she said to the stones at her feet. “Don’t mess with me, not tonight. Please turn and walk away.”

But they didn’t turn and they didn’t walk away. She looked at them individually, and noticed they all bore a similar expression—a knowing, wicked sneer. Gaunt, yet fierce-looking, their pale complexions contrasted sharply with the dark shadows surrounding them.

“So you’re not going to let this pass?” she said under her breath. “You’re looking for trouble, waiting for some hapless woman to wander by in the dead of night so you can have a little fun with her, huh?” She blew air through her lips and felt a familiar tingling in her gums. “All right, big boys, I can handle a little fun and definitely I can use some food. Let’s get this over with.” They stood shoulder–to-shoulder in front of her, the one on her left breaking the strained silence. “What’s the deal? You some halfwit who likes to talk to herself?” She stared into his eyes, swallowed the saliva collecting in her mouth and wondered if his blood would taste coppery or like a fine Chianti when she buried her fangs in his scrawny neck.

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Where The Rain Is Made

katbryan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:45:32 CDT

Where The Rain Is Made, The Wild Rose Press PRINT ISBN 1-60154-371-9 (Amazon)
(312 pages) Rating (Spicy) Buy Here: http://www.thewildrosepress.com/where-the-rain-is-made-p-987.html Held captive by a decadent-looking savage, Francesca DuVall spends every waking moment planning an escape for her brother, Marsh. But she never counted on falling in love with the man whose silver eyes cause her to tremble with unbridled passion. Ethan Gray, the man, is a curator at a famous museum . . . most of the time, that is. At other times, he's Meko, a savage warrior hurled into the past to help his beloved people, the Cheyenne. Though their worlds are decades apart, Meko, can't resist the dark-haired, green-eyed beauty he kidnaps during a raid. A brutal, savage leader of the Dog Soldiers, he has many battles to fight to save his people, but none he wants to win more than the one that will capture Cesca's heart forever. From the windswept plains of Colorado and the harsh life of a Dog Soldier to the placid life of a curator, their love was fueled passion and kindled by destiny. Where The Rain Is Made was been awarded numerous five-star reviews and has recently selected as Top Pick of The Month by Paranormal Reviews (PNR), host of the prestigious PEARL Award.

WHERE THE RAIN IS MADE – PNR Book of the Month, June 2009

"Historical Romance to Sweep You Back in Time!"

The Sacred Council of Arrows chooses time wanderers to aid the Cheyenne in times of trouble. They cannot change the past, only influence with hope that their advice will be put to good use.
Ethan Gray of modern time is chosen to go back to 1864 because of his knowledge of the people. He's known as Meko in this time, the leader of the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers. When Meko captures Francesca (Cesca) Duvall, he never thought he would be in jeopardy of losing his heart. His stay in the past will eventually come to an end when the Council decides he has fulfilled his mission. Or if he is on the threshold of death, he must then let the power of the raven course through his veins and take him to the heavens and back to the present. Only now he fears he cannot do as the Council bids when his heart and soul belongs to Cesca.
When Cesca is first taken, she bravely stands up to Meko, stating she will never accept her life among the Cheyenne. Brave words, but her heart has other plans and she finds herself longing for Meko's touch.
Marsh Duvall, Cesca's brother is also taken in the raid, but his captor, Choking Wolf takes great delight in abusing him. Cesca can't stand by and see her little brother hurt. She vows to see him safely away from the Cheyenne, even if it means her death.
Through the lives of these three people, Ms. Bryan spins a vivid account of how grueling and sometimes brutal the life of a Dog Soldier could be. I loved how she wove the rituals and beliefs of the Cheyenne people throughout the tale as if you were there seeing it first hand. The passion between Cesca and Meko is endearing as they learn to trust and accept each other for who they truly are. Marsh's acceptance of the Cheyenne ways is believable, giving a full account of the ordeal expected of him to become a Dog Soldier. I also liked her secondary characters. Brown Wing, the old woman who befriends Cesca and Strikes First's, who is loyal to Meko.
This is a historical romance sure to magically sweep you back in time. A must read!
Reviewed by: Karen Michelle Nutt, author

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Favorite Authors

zoeylaw — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:11:10 CDT

Barbara Carole, Umberto Eco, Tim Flannery, Tony Hillerman, Jane Austen, Bill Bryson, Lindsey Davis, George Eliot, Walt Kelly, E.O. Wilson, Harlan Coben
Some authors are so good you want to read everything they've written--they're "Too Good to Miss," according to Nancy Pearl. These pages include some of Nancy's favorite authors who are too good to miss, such as:


Lee Child	Ian McEwan	Iris Murdoch

Visit these author pages recently added by readers:

Adriana Trigliani
Alma Alexander
Amy MacKinnon
Anne McCaffrey
Anne Perry
Anne Tyler
Anne-Laure Bondoux
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Barbara Kingsolver
Bernadette Mayer
Beverley Nichols
Bill Bryson

Brandon Sanderson
C.S. Lewis
Charles Dickens
Clive Cussler
Diana Gabaldon
Dorothy Cannell
Dorothy Gilman
Elizabeth Kostova
Ernest Hemingway
Evelyn Waugh
Georgette Heyer
Geraldine Brooks
Graham Swift
Gregory Maguire
J.D. Salinger
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jason Likes
Jeanette Winterson
John Cheever
John Fowles
John Updike
Joyce Carol Oates
Barbara Kingsolver
Mark Klempner
Jon Krakauer
Kathryn Maughan
Kurt Vonnegut
Layne Maheu
Lillian Jackson Braun
Lorna Landvik
Margaret Atwood
Maggie Anton
Marta Acosta
Melanie Rae Thon
Margaret Moore
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mercedes Lackey
Neal Stephenson
Nora Roberts
Orson Scott Card
Philip Pullman
Philippa Gregory
Ray Bradbury
Rayna Gangi
Richard Halliburton
Robert McCammon
Roxanne Henke
Saba Sophiya Hasan
Sarah Waters
Stephen King
Stephanie Meyer
Terry Prachett
Thomas Paine
Tom Stoppard
Ursula LeGuinn
Wally Lamb

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zoeylaw — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:10:03 CDT

Historical Fiction author Jessica James
Award-winning author of the Civil War novel Shades of Gray
www.jessicajamesbooks.com

Fiction author M. G. Sanchez

www.mgsanchez.net

Writer of postcolonial fictions

Suspense by Anne -- blog and website of romantic suspense author Anne Patrick. Read blurbs and excerpts of her upcoming novels.

Suspense/Thriller Bloggers

AnnePatrick07 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:22:46 CDT

Collecting all great Suspense/Thriller Blogs here!

Reader's Advisory Librarian Lora Bruggeman has a new book blog called Pop Goes Fiction. She includes read-alikes and suggestions for further reading, as well as her "Best of" list.

Suspense writer Brandilyn Collins blogs at Forensics & Faith.

Tillabooks: Will's Book Blog includes some suspense, and has an author index of mystery and suspense blog entries here.

Suspense Thriller is a blog about the suspense thriller. It includes reviews and thoughts on writing craft.

Shimerdla.com -- The blog and website of author Joseph Shimerdla. Read updates to his stories and website, as well as his thoughts on writing and life in general. All of his writing is available online, including short stories, poems, and a novel in progress.

Suspense by Anne -- Blog and website of romantic supsense author Anne Patrick. Read blurbs and excerpts of her upcoming releases.

Robin McKinley

finette — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:37:22 CDT

Robin McKinley is a Newbery-Medal-winning fantasy author whose books appeal to teens and adults alike. Nancy has highly recommended Robin's vampire novel Sunshine in her own books and in media interviews.

Complete works:

Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978)
The Door in the Hedge (1981)
The Blue Sword (1982; Newbery Honor)
The Hero and the Crown (1984; Newbery Medal)
The Outlaws of Sherwood (1988)
Deerskin (1993; retelling of the lesser-known fairy tale Donkeyskin)
A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories (1996)
Rose Daughter (1997; another retelling of Beauty and the Beast)
Spindle's End (2000; retelling of Sleeping Beauty)
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits (2002; with her husband Peter Dickinson)
Sunshine (2003)
Dragonhaven (2007)
Chalice (2008)

Upcoming:

Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits (another McKinley/Dickinson collaboration; Fall 2009)
Pegasus (in progress)

Fantasy Bloggers

finette — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:01:53 CDT

The Tucker O'Doyle Book Series
by Jason Rider

Available from www.bellissimapublishing.com, from www.amazon.com, from www.barnesandnoble.com and from your favorite online or local bookstore! All Bellissima Books are Ingram listed.

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Neil Gaiman's Journal

Check out Holly Lisle's Pocket Full of Words!

Seth Mullins, author of Song of an Untamed Land, posts about fantasy, myth and transformation--along with excerpts from his next novel.

Tillabooks: Will's Book Blog contains quite a lot of fantasy. There is a fantasy author index to the blog available here.

Robin McKinley's Blog

Author Interviews

equiculture — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:23:50 CDT

Interview with Jessica James, author of Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia

Interview with Lauren Baratz-Logsted, author of Vertigo, How Nancy Drew Saved My Life, and Angel's Choice.

Historical Romance Bloggers

equiculture — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:14:43 CDT

Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia
By Jessica James

Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia is the recipient of two prestigious Best Regional Fiction Awards in 2008 and was named in the Top Five for Best Southern Theme in the 2009 HOLT Medallion Contest. It was also named FAVORITE BOOK of 2008 by two book review sites and was a finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s 2008 Book of the Year Award. The book has been widely praised by historians for its balanced portrayal of the War Between the States, and by romance readers for its emotional description of the love that develops between the two main characters.

Jessica James blogs about the Civil War at www.jessicajamesblog.com
And about writing and historical romantic fiction at www.jessicajamesbooks.com

"Rashi’s Daughters Book 3: Rachel" by Maggie Anton
[A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France]

The dramatic final book in the epic historical trilogy about the lives and loves of the three daughters of the great Talmud scholar Rashi. Publication date: August 26, 2009.

Rachel is the youngest and by far the most beautiful daughter of medieval Jewish scholar, Salomon ben Isaac, or “Rashi.” Her father’s favorite and adored by her new husband, Eliezer, Rachel’s life looks to be one filled with peaceful scholarship, laughter, and love. But events beyond her control will soon threaten everything she holds dear as the marauders of the First Crusade massacre nearly the entire Jewish population of Germany, and her beloved father suffers a stroke. Eliezer wants their family to move to the safety of Spain, but Rachel is determined to stay in France and help her family save the Troyes yeshiva, the only remnant of the great centers of Jewish learning in Europe. As she did so effectively in Joheved and Miriam, Maggie Anton vividly brings to life the world of eleventh-century France and a remarkable Jewish woman of dignity, passion, beauty, and strength.

http://rashisdaughters.com/blog

Napoleon RIsing Novel Blog :
What If Napoleon Bonaparte Side With America ?
By Pierre-Michael Combaluzier, FINS
Many historians consider Napoleon Bonaparte as one of the most astonishing rulers who ever lived. His strong leadership and effective strategies brought France to a near domination of Europe . Aside from having a winning record of battles, Napoleon is also remembered for establishing the Napoleonic Code, which influenced the law systems of many other countries. In paying tribute to the historical leader, author Pierre Michel Combaluzier invites readers to take part in a fictional portrayal of the life and times of Napoleon with the release of his compelling new book Napoleon Rising . The text examines what would have happened had Napoleon survived and reached the United States on Christmas Eve of 1820. The story begins when the strongman is rescued from exile by French expatriates and the American government, which is working secretly against the British. As such, Napoleon uses his political connections and family to work with the Americans on a common cause. How much impact would Napoleon make on America 's political scene and global standing? Read the book to find out. With its very unique plot and detailed look at both European and American history, Napoleon Rising is bound to not just entertain curious readers but also spark a new wave of debates concerning history and politics. It brings to life an alternative analysis of history like no other book and readers will be captivated by the author's style of storytelling.
Publication Date: November 8, 2006

http://napoleonrising.over-blog.com

Worderella: blogs about the trials and tribulations of historical fiction writing, as well as tips and tricks to edit, market, and publish your own works.

The Lost Blog of Don Juan: Douglas Carlton Abrams' blog about his experience with The Lost Diary of Don Juan

Of Human Bondage	Somerset Maugham
A Winter in the Hills	John Wain
Rabbit IsRich	John Updike
Humboldt's Gift	Saul Bellow
Buddenbrooks	Thomas Mann
Sons and Lovers	D.H. Lawrence
Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Thomas Hardy
Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie
A Long Way to Shiloh	Lionel Davidson
Theology and Sanity	Frank Sheed

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