Saturday, August 25, 2012

The #spbkchat must-read list

This week was a  busy chat about the books we consider to be must-reads.

Next week we're talking about  poetry. :-)

On to the list!

Titles:
Shirley
The Sparrow
Peter Pan
The Secret Garden
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Frankenstein
Crime and Punishment
A Christmas Carol
The Shadow of the Wind
The Book Thief
David Copperfield
Pride and Prejudice
Columbine
Lord Peter Whimsey (series)
Harriet Vane (series)
Gaudy Night
Busman's Honeymoon
Edward Carpenter
The Fountainhead
The Realm of Possibility
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Hot Topic
Heat
Boiling Point
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
The Realm of Possibility
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Norwegian Wood
The Pillars of the Earth
The Tipping Point
Dance, Dance, Dance
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Jasper Jones
Forest of Hands and Teeth
The Piper's Son
The Handmaid's Tale
Oryx & Crake
The Year of the Flood
Skinned
Saving Francesca
Pure
1984
Chaos Walking (series)
Unwind
Magician (series)
Wolf Hall
Anthem
A Place of Greater Safety
Bring Up the Bodies
Obernetwyn
On the Jellicoe Road
The Dark is Rising Sequence (series)
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Moveable Feast
The Book Thief
Silver Phoenix
The Bean Trees

Authors:
Anne Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Charles Dickens
Mary Shelley
Dorothy L Sayers
Sheila Rowbotham
Ayn Rand
Mary Doria Russell
Renowden
Monbiot
Ross Gelbspan
David Levithan
Rachel Cohn
Harukai Murakami
Malcolm Gladwell
Craig Silvey
Margaret Atwood
Melina Marchetta
Juliann Baggott
George Orwell
Patrick Ness
Raymond E Feist
Hilary Mantel
Mark Zusak
Cindy Pon
Barbara Kingsolver

Links:
http://literary-exploration.com/2011/08/03/my-issues-with-the-book-thief/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html

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