The #spbkchat best books of the year list

I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and is looking forward to the New Year.

This past Thursday we talked about our best books of the year, and looking forward to this Thursday, we'll be talking about our most anticpated reads of 2013.

On to the last list for 2012!






Titles:
Who We Are
Shattered Glass
Taliban Cricket Club
The Prague Cemetery
Wingmen
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Every Day
Paper Towns
Kate Daniells (series)
The Fault in Our Stars
My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece
October Daye (series)
House of Leaves
IQ84
Gotz and Meyer
Tender Morsels
Sea Hearts
Dublinesque
The Brothers Karamazov
Dream of Ding Village
The Emperor of Lies
1984
We
Crime and Punishment
The Marriage Plot
Swimming Home
Into the Darkest Corner
Delirium
Pandemonium
Talulla Rising
Angelmaker
Dare Me
Billy Lynn
Life of Pi

Authors:
T J Klune
Dani Alexander
Timeri Murari
Ensan Case
Lois McMaster Bujold
David Levithan
Patricia Briggs
Carrie Vaughn
John Green
Annabel Pitcher
Seanan Mcguire
Margo Lanagan
George Orwell
Dostoyevsky
Lauren Oliver
Glen Duncan
Nick Harkaway
Megan E Abbott
Ben Fountain
Janet Evanovich

Links:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2662169-tender-morsels

The #spbkchat Christmas list

Merry Christmas! The festive season and its reads were the theme of this week's chat.

Next week, we'll be talking about our best books of the year.

On to the list!

Titles:
Moloka'i
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Twas the Night Before Christmas
Harry Potter (series)
Wolfbane & Mistletoe
Great Expectations
Bleak House
The Old Curiosity Shop
A Christmas Carol
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
Scrooged
The Casual Vacancy
Holly & Ivy
Hogfather

Authors:
Alan Brennert
Agatha Christie
Charlaine Harris
Toni Kehlner
Charles Dickens
Godden & Cooney
Terry Pratchett

The #spbkchat Russia list

This week the chat was all about Russia and its rich literature tradition.

Next week, with the festive season (and the Mayan apocalypse) closing in on us, we're talking all about Christmas.

Anyway, on to the list for Russia week!



Titles:
A Mirrored World
Madonnas of Leningrad
The Countess Under the Stairs
Imperial Highness
Russian Winter
Kirov saga (series)
The Bronze Horseman (series)
Gorky Park
Polar Star
Red Square
Sketches
Fathers and Sons
The Kitchen Boy
Middlemarch
Howl's Moving Castle
Dead Souls
Night Watch
Anna Karenina
The Secret History of Moscow
The Master and Margarita
Dr Zhivago
We
The Idiot
One Day in the Life of Alexis Denisof
Crime and Punishment
War and Peace
A Hero of Our Time
Shadow Prowler

Authors:
Debra Dean
Eva Ibboston
Evelyn Anthony
Daphne Kalotay
Debra Dean
Helen Dunmore
Cynthia Harrold-Eagles
Paullina Simons
Martin Cruz Smith
Maria Rasputin
Felix Yusopov
Robert Alexander

Gogol
Ivan Turgenev
Akhmatova
Boris Pasternak
Mandelstam
Esenin
Sergei Lukyanenko
Victor Pelevin
Tatiana Tolstaya
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Ilona Andrews
Bukagov
Zamyatin
Dostoyevsky
Solzhenitsyn
Lermontov
Tolstoy
Alexey Polov
Peter Ustinov


Links:
http://www.theintrepidreader.com/2007/11/last-couple-of-days.html
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/113.Best_Russian_Literature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Booker_Prize
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_literature
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Short_Stories_%28Bookshelf%29#Russia_.26_Scandinavia

The #spbkchat cricket post

There was no list last week because the chat fizzled out pretty early, which does happen some time.

This coming Thursday we're talking about Russia, and this past Thursday, cricket provided a lively discussion.

On to the list!


Titles:
Notorious Nineteen
Life, the Universe and Everything
Glenroy Trilogy (series)
Lord Peter Whimsey
All Creatures Great and Small (series)
To Let
The Pickwick Papers
The Cricket Term
The Gift of Speed
Glory Gardens (series)
Bodyline Autopsy
How to Catch a Cricket Match
Perfect Strangers
Jasper Jones
Downton Abbey
Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Matthew
Netherland
Phryne Fisher (series)
The Cricket in Times Square
Pinocchio
The Taliban Cricket Club
Diary of a Cricket God

Authors:
Robert Heinlen
Janet Evanovich
Douglas Adams
Steven Carroll
Dorothy L Sayers
John Galsworthy
Antonia Forest
Charles Dickens
Robyn Sisman
Craig Silvey
Harry Ricketts
Shehan Karunatilaka
Joseph O'Neill
Max Walker
Kerry Greenwood
George Selden
Carlo Collodi
Bob Catell
Timeri Murari

Links:
http://tinglingcatch.blogspot.co.nz/2010/10/tim-jones-blog-post-on-tingling-catch.html
http://www.maltacricket.biz/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/books/review/Garner-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
http://www.mysteryfile.com/Cricket/Lachman.html