Friday, November 25, 2011

The #spbkchat book series list

This week's chat was all about book series and was another lively discussion. :-)

Next week we're talking religion/spirituality.

On to the list!


Titles:
Narnia
In Death
Kate Daniels
Hornblower
Knuffle Bunny
Elephant & Piggie
Fancy Nancy
Winnie the Witch
Cat in the Hat
Fly Guy
Captain Pugwash
Flat Stanley
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Adrian Mole
Harry Potter
Horrible Histories
Alex Rider
James Bond
Zac Power
Thomas the Tank Engine
Lord Peter Wimsey
Divergent
Twilight
The Passage
The Twelve
Ramses
Riddlemaster
The Saddle Club
Thoroughbred
Heartland
Phantom Stallion
Falco
Scarlet Pimpernel
Babysitter Club
Midnight Flight
One for the Money
If I Stay
Stephanie Plum
Where She Went
Nancy Drew
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Chaos Walking
Sookie Stackhouse
God is an Englishman
d'Aubigny
Blue Bloods
Flowers in the Attic
Broken Wings
Thursday Next
Lord of the Rings
Dragons of Pern
A Game of Thrones
Clash of Kings
Shatter Me
The Dresden Files
Anne of Green Gables
Caledon
Mode
Poison Throne
The Bronze Horseman
Secret Seven
Famous Five
Clan of the Cave Bear
The Book Thief

Heartless
Soulless
Jane Eyre
Calvin & Hobbes
Dilbert
Digimon
Vampire Diaries
Earth's Children
Silver Phoenix
Fury of the Phoenix
The Secret Circle
Bridgerton Family
Team 16
Hollows
Pennyroyal
Hathaway
Abbey Girls
Melendy Quartet
Moffats
Magic
Deborah Knott
Animorphs
The Dark is Rising
Fearstreet
Shatter Me
Delirium
Sunset Island
Glory Gardens
Otori
Goosebumps
Changeless
Blory Gardens
Magician/Krondor
Perfect Chemistry
Anna and the French Kiss
Lola and the Boy Next Door
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Orphans
Belgariad
Mallorean
Pride and Dragon
Psy/Changeling
Eragon
Parasol Protectorate
Vampire Academy
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
The Pledge
Wither
Uglies
Mercy
Kitty
Edge

Chemical Garden
Matched
Hunger Games
His Dark Materials
The Study
Davenport
Flowers
One Piece
Elder Races



Authors:
JD Robb
Ilona Andrews
Dorothy L Sayers
Christian Jacq
Patricia McKillip
Lindsay Davies
Baroness Orczy
R F Delderfield
Diana Gabaldon
Ronald Welch
Anne McCaffrey
Katherine Kerr
Jasper Fforde
Bernard Cornwell
Virginia Andrews
Jim Butcher
Piers Anthony
Celine Kiernan
Mark Zusak
Jean M Auel
Cindy Pon
L J Smith
Gayle Foreman
Lauren Oliver
Maggie Stiefvater
Quinn
Brockmann
Kim Harrison
Elizabeth George
Julie Anne Long
Lisa Kleypas
Oxenham
Enright
Estes
Eager
Anne Perry
Margaret Marron
L M Montgomery
R L Stine
David Eddings
Lian Hearn
Laurell K Hamilton
Raymond E Feist
Gail Carriger
Tolkien
Phillip Pullman
J K Rowling
Shelley Laurenston
Nalini Singh
Agatha Christie
Ngaio Marsh
Carrie Vaughn
Ilona Andrews
Maria Snyder
John Sandford
Kimberly Derting
Meljean Brooks
Thea Harrison
Brent Weeks

Friday, November 18, 2011

The #spbkchat general chat list

This week's chat was an open-forum which is always wide-ranging and interesting.

Next week we're talking book series.

The list!




Titles:
Infinite Jest
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Sightseeing
Kommandants Girl
Wolf Hall
IQ84
Breaking Dawn
The Housekeeper and the Professor
The Man She Loves to Hate
A Single Man
Cabaret
Temple
Blood Safari
The Spirit Level
The Silent Angel
Whipping Girl
The 47 Ronin Story
Angus, Thongs and Full-Fronted Snogging
The Nonesuch
Kate Daniels (series)
October Daye (series)
Kraken
Song of Achilles
Rocks in the Belley
The Happiness Project
Carrier of the Mark
Touch of Poison


Authors:
Thomas Pynchon
Yoko Ogawa
Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Sarah Mayberry
Anne McAllister
David Foster Wallace
Jo Bourne
Lionel Shriver
Hilary Mantel
Christopher Isherwood
Sarah Hall
Matthew Reilly
Mary Stewart
Georgette Heyer
Deon  Mayer
Heinrich Boll
Wilkinson & Pickett
Kafka
Victoria Holt
Louise Rennison
John Allyn
Ilona Andrews
Seanan McGuire
Murakami
Julia Serrano
India Black
Jon Bauer
Gretchen Rubin
Maria V Snyder



Links:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/17/hilary-mantel-sequel-wolf-hall?CMP=twt_fd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_literature
http://kinnareads.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/ghanaian-literature-week/
http://thoughtsfrombotswana.blogspot.com/

Friday, November 11, 2011

The #spbkchat books everyone loves but me chat list

This week's chat proved to be a lively one! It was great and I'm sure everyone enjoyed it. Next week it's an open forum - general chat :-)

On to the list:

Titles:
The Lovely Bones
Mao's Last Dancer
The Pact
The Slap
My Sisters Keeper
Plain Truth
Handle With Care
The Notebook
Twilight
Black Dagger Brotherhood (series)
Dear John
The Last Song
Anita Blake (series)
Enduring Love
Kingdom of Dreams
Whitney, My Love
Catcher in the Rye
Devil in Winter
Atonement
On Chesil Beach
It
Pet Semetary
Amsterdam
Harry Potter (series)
Saturday
Music and Silence
The Host
The Big Sleep
Blowfly
The Great Gatsby
Wild Swan
Gormenghast (series)
The Naughty Corner

The Magic Mountain


The Lord of the Rings
Love in the Time of Cholera
His Dark Materials (series)
The Passage
Vampire Diaries (series)
Sookie Stackhouse (series)
The Silmarillion
Wuthering Heights
The Hobbit
Tom Bombadil anthology
Bleak House
A Christmas Carol
Great Expectations
The Bluest Eye
The Wheel of Time
The Hunger Games (series)
A Muppet Christmas Carol (film)
IQ84
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Gone with the Wind
Matched
Narnia (series)
Earthsea (series)
Divergent
The Blind Assassin
Alias Grace
Oryx & Crake
The Year of the Flood
Lord of Scoundrels
David Copperfield
The Old Curiosity Shop
Wild Sheep Chase
Dance Dance Dance
The Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
The Boat
The Bone People
Shatter Me
Norwegian Wood
After the Quake
Kafka on the Shore
A Discovery of Witches
Dirt Music
Coooeee
The Purge
The Book Thief
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Room
Eat, Pray, Love
Perfume
Belle du Jour
The Handmaid's Tale
One Day


Authors:
Jodi Picoult
Charles Dickens
Thea Harrison
Laurell K Hamilton
Christos Tsiolkas
J D Ward
Nicholas Sparks
Judith McNaught
M J Davidson
Stephen King
Ian McEwan
Enid Blyton
Brent-Dyers
Gene Wolfe
Rose Tremain
Patricia Cornwell
Raymond Carver
Harukai Murakami
Stephenie Meyer
Raymond Chandler
Jackie French
Mervyn Peake
Ernest Hemingway
Colin Thompson
China Mieville
Thomas Mann

Phillip Pullman
Toni Morrison
Margaret Atwood
Nam Le
Keri Hulme
Vivienne Kelly
Sofi Oksanen
Markus Zusak
David Nicholls



Links:
http://statweestics.com/6402/
http://timjonesbooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/load-out.html

Friday, November 4, 2011

The #spbkchat LGBQT chat list

Sorry for the delay - I was watching Merlin episodes last night and got completely distracted by Colin Morgan's cheekbones but that's another story.

Next week's topic is 'books everyone but me loves', which should make for a great chat.

The list, yes? :-)

Titles:
Love and Rockets
IQ84
Torchwood (series)
Strangers in Paradise (comic series)
Y: The Last Man
The Hours
Elegy
Runaways/Young Avengers (Marvel comic series)
Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson
Stuck Rubber Baby
Middlesex
Love & Rockets
A Portrait of a Marriage
Whistling in the Dark
Tipping the Velvet
Looking for Rachel Wallace
Affinity
Fingersmith
The Passion
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
The Story of the Night
The Line of Beauty
The Twyborn Affair
The Eye of the Storm
Sexing the Cherry
Companion to Wolves
A Tempering of Men
The Last of the Wine
The Friendly Young Ladies
Lola and the Boy Next Door
A Boy's Own Story
I'll Get There, It Better be Worth the Trip
Almost Like Being in Love
The Night Watch
Nightsiders
The Charioteer
Ilario
Evolution's Rainbow
Luna

Adrian English (series)
Another Way
Huntress
Will Grayson, Will Grayson




Authors:
Brian K Vaughn
Michael  Cunningham
Howard Cruse
Alison Bechdel
Nigel Nicholson
Hollinghurst
Paul Monette
Tamara Allen
Christopher Isherwood
Michael Holroyd
Lytton Strachey
Sheila Rowbotham
Edward Carpenter
Jean Genet
R B Parker
Sarah Waters
Jeanette Winterson
Colm Tolbin
Pat Califia
Edmund White
Val McDermid
Lori Lake
John Wilson
Kerry Greenwood
M A Dymmoch
Allan Hollinghusrt
Patrick White
David Marr
Elizabeth Bear
Sarah Monette
Stephanie Perkins
Steve Kluger
Sue Isle
Mary Renault
Mary Gentle
Jeffrey Eugenides
Joan Roughgarden
Julie Anne Peters
Michael Thomas Ford
Jaimie Hernandez
John Updike
Josh Lanyon
Malinda Lo
Anna Martin
Brent Hartinger
Alex Sanchez
David Levithan
Dennis Altman


Links:
http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1513496.html?#cutid1
http://www.curious.org.nz/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charioteer
http://uniflamecreates.blogspot.com/2011/08/book-review-luna-by-julie-anne-peters.html
http://lilac.lesbian.net.nz/