Friday, March 30, 2012

The #spbkchat better than expected: books that surprised you list

Another great chat - a very busy discussion!

Next week it's a free-for-all general chat. NOTE: New Zealand's Daylight Savings Time changes this weekend  - we fall back an hour so if the time for #spbkchat seems to be off, that's why. We start at 10pm New Zealand Time every week, so check your zones here: http://spbkchat.blogspot.co.nz/p/times.html

On to the list!



Titles:
The Book Thief
Othello
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
The Divine Comedy
The Killing Floor
David Copperfield
Bleak House
Great Expectations
Pride & Prejudice
Original Sin
A Room With a View
Whistling in the Dark
 Looking for Alibrandi
Saving Francesca
Romeo & Juliet
Harp in the South
Emma
Forever
The Old Man and the Sea
King Lear
The Scarlet Pimpernel
If I Stay
Where She Went
Away
Lockie Leonard
Maestro
Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Lord of the Rings
A Farewell to Arms
The Hobbit
Forbidden
The Merchant of Venice
Hamlet
Atonement
12th Night
Life of Pi
A Christmas Carol
Ender's Game
The Passage
Oliver Twist
Perfect Chemistry
Virgin River
Old Man's War

The Last Stormlord
The Master & Margrita
War & Peace
Anna Karenina
Sherlock Holmes (series)
Harry Potter (series)
The Hunger Games (series)
Lola and the Boy Next Door
Remastering Jerna
The Time Traveler's Wife
Twilight
Anna and the French Kiss
The Great Gatsby
Warm Bodies
Slave to Sensation
Slice
The Weight of Water
The Night Circus
                                                                                                       
Authors:
Dante
William Shakespeare
Lee Child
Charles Dickens
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Jane Austen
Beth McMullen
E M Forster
Tamara Allen
Kelly Hunter
Melina Marchetta
Judy Blume
Ernest Hemingway
Ruth Park
Tabitha Suzuma
Joss Whedon
Gayle Foreman
Simone Elkeles
Robyn Carr
John Scalzi
Glenda Larke
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Laurie King
Ann Somerville
Audrey Niffenegger
Nalini Singh
Victoria Dahl
Stephanie Perkins
Stephen Herrick
Sarah Crossan

Links:
http://www.thebookclub.co.uk/blog/barrowmanfeedback/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth_%28novel%29
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/one-hundred-writers-coming-aucklands-big-book-festival-113687
http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/

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