The #spbkchat history list

Last night's chat was all about history and it engendered a very lively discussion, which we like to see. :D







The list:

Titles:
Asterix (series)
TinTin (series)
The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard
Mates & Lovers
Encircled Lands
The Roman Mysteries (series)
The Henderson Boys
Rowan of Rin
Roland Wright Future Knight
Pagan's Crusade
Possession
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Bronze Horseman
Josephine B (series)
Claude and Camille
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Alice I Have Been
The Red Tent
Kirov Saga
Sunne in Splendour
Here be Dragons
The Tudor Secret
Master of Verona
Mistress of Rome
Gravity's Rainbow
Madame Tussaud
Felix Holt
The Last Queen
Confessions of Catherine de Medici
Ivanhoe
Voyager
Cryptonomicon
Codex Alera (series)
A Bride's Story vol.1 (manga series)
Mudbound
The Help
Wolf Hall
The Belgariad (series)
The Thorn Birds
Highland Clearances
Clans & Tartans of Scotland
Highland Landscape
Cloud of Sparrows
Autumn Bridge
Falco (series)
The Larnachs
Pride and Prejudice (graphic novel)
Emma (graphic novel)
Otori (series)
The Hangman's Daughter
The Winter Sea
The Wild Hunt
Lionheart
Scarlet Lion
The Samurai
India Black
To Defy a King
A Place Beyond Courage
Perfume
Daughters of Rome
The Greatest Knight
The Tea Rose
The Winter Rose
The Rose Garden
A Gathering Light
Revolution
Silent in the Grave
The Dark Enquiry
Lady of the English


Authors:
Marcia Williams
Gregory Rogers
Geronimo Stilton
Chris Brickell
Judith Binney
Rosemary Sutcliffe
Ronald Welch
Caroline Lawrence
Robert Muchamore
Emily Rodda
Tony Davis
Catherine Jinks
Kate Ellis
A S Byatt
Sandra Gulland
Anne Perry
Susan Vreeland
Vanora Bennet
Diana Gabaldon
Melanie Benjamin
Sharon Kay Penman
Cynthia Harrod Eagles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Laurie King
CW Gortner
Anita Diamant
David Blixt
Kate Quinn
Jean Plaidy
Paullina Simons
Robert Low
Magnus Magnusson
D MacKenzie
CW Gortner
Michelle Moran
Jane Austen
Philippa Gregory
Dorothy Dunnett
Neal Stephenson
Thomas Pynchon
Sara Donati
Jim Butcher
Jules Watson
Susan Holloway Scott
Kaoru Mori
Hilary Jordan
Katherine Stockett
Mary Renault
Ronald Welch
Aaron Fletcher
David Eddings
J Prebble
R Bain
WH Murray
Lindsay Davies
Owen Marshall
Ransom-David Malouf
Christopher Gortner
Kate Grenville
Lian Hearn
Susanna Kearsley
Endo
Y S Lee
Carol K Carr
Patrick Suskind
Elizabeth Knox
Hilary Mantel
Lisa See
Jennifer Donnelly
Deanna Raybourn
Oliver Pötzsch
Elizabeth Chadwick


Links:
http://rereadinglives.blogspot.com/2011/06/japanese-historical-novels.html
http://rereadinglives.blogspot.com/2011/06/japanese-wwii-literature.html

The #spbkchat general chat list

Thanks to everyone who stopped by, last night was another lively chat. It was a general chat so among other things we talked about what we're currently reading, books we're looking forward to, E-readers, and the eternal debate: E-books vs. paper books.
On to the list...


Titles

A Monster Calls
The Knife of Never Letting Go
The Master of Go - Kawabata
River Marked - Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson series)
Deadline - Mira Grant
Before I Go to Sleep - S.J. Watson
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
The Hunter - Tom Wood
Little Sister
Red Spikes - Margo Lanagan
All Together Dead
From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse series)
The Ottoman Motel - Christopher Currie
Succubus Blues - Richelle Meads
Kiss of Snow - Singh
A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
Homeland Lost - Ale Liubinas
Lyrics Alley
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson
The Diary of Anne Frank
Crime and Punishment
Annabel - Kathleen Winter
The Memory of Love
The Hunger Games
Delirium
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
Tales for Canterbury (anthology)
Quakebook (anthology)
Phryne Fisher series - Kerry Greenwood
The Emerald Atlas - John Stephens
If I Stay - Gayle Forman
Where She Went
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Skinwalker - Faith Hunter
God of the Hive - Laurie King
Hungry for Your Love (anthology)
Scott Pilgrim comics
Bloodline
City of the Dead - Sara Gran
Angel Burn - L.A. Weatherly
Phoenix Rising - Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris
Original Sin - Beth McMullan
Hoopskirts, Union Blues, and Confederate Grays: Civil War Fashions from 1861 to 1865
Dreams of Joy - Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Peony in Love
Shanghai Girls


Authors

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Michael Thomas Ford
Robert Low
Alex Gray
Chris Crutcher
Alafair Burke
Mark Billingham
Claire DeWitt
Geraldine Brooks
Jodi Picoult


Links

#quakebook
Tales for Canterbury
ebooks vs. paper books (Eco-Libris)
It's a Book - Lane Smith (video)


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The #spbkchat cookbook list

This week's #spbkchat was about cookbooks, which naturally turned to talk of food. It was a great chat, and made more than one chatter hungry, I'm sure!

The list:

Titles:
Family Cookbook (Test Kitchen)
Sizzle Seduce and Simmer
The Love Verb
Like Water for Chocolate
Edmonds Cookbook
Jane of Lantern Hill
The Blue Castle
Windy Poplars
Star Wars Cookbook
Shrek Cookbook
The Girl Who ... (series)
500 Great Curries of India
Last Dinner of the Titanic
QE2 Cookbook
Miss Piggy Cookbook
Barbara Cartland's Romance of Food
On the Road
Brady Bunch Cookbook
Gilligan's Island Cookbook
Corinna Chapman (series)
Family Circle's Cooking: A Common Sense Guide
Faith Fairchild
Celebrations
Eat, Pray, Love
Heat
Meals Without Meat
Natural Vegetarian Dishes for New Zealanders
Cuisine Magazine
First Catch Your Weka
A Cottage Garden Cook Book
Better Homes and Gardens
Too Many Cooks
Real Food
200 Years of NZ Food and Cookery
White Moas and Artichokes: Paintings, Prose and Preserves
Encyclopaedia of Food and Cookery
Big Fat Duck Cookbook


Authors:
Jean-Georges
Gia deLaurentis
Ina Garten
Jane Green
Laura Esquivel
Haruki Murakami
Rebecca Dew
Steig Larson
Camellia Panjabi
Jack Kerouac
Kerry Greenwood
Katherine Hall Page
Jo Seagar
Fionna Hill
Elizabeth Gilbert
George Monbiot
Alison Holst
L M Montgomery
David Veart
Christine Dann
Rex Stout
Nigel Slater
David Burton
Shona McFarlane
Margaret Fulton
Hestor Blumenthal


Links:
http://shelikesbento.blogspot.com/2011/05/weekend-cooking-homemade-veggie-burgers.html
http://www.cozy-mystery.com/Cozy-Mysteries-by-Themes.html
http://info.infosoup.org/lists/culinary.asp?BooklistID=7

The #spbkchat romance list

This week's #spbkchat was all about romance fiction, and it sparked a lively discussion and debate.

New faces popped up in the stream, and that's always great to see, among the awesome regulars who join us every week. On behalf of myself, Marg (http://readingadventures.blogspot.com/) and Tanabata (http://www.inspringitisthedawn.com/), we thank you for making it an awesome chat every week.

Now.

The list:

Titles:
Natural Born Charmer
It Had to Be You
Smart Bitches (series)
Match Me if You Can
This Heart of Mine
Whistling In The Dark
White Palace
Anna and the French Kiss
The Hunger Games (series)
Lilli-Pilli the Frog Princess
Feathers for Phoebe
The Bronze Horseman
The Next Best Thing
Devil in Winter
Jane Eyre
Island
Anna Karenina
Madame Bovary
Wuthering Heights
Persuasion
The Charm School
Love in the Time of Cholera
A Matter of Class
True Blood (series)
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Daddy Long Legs
Dash & Lily
Gaudy Night
Twilight
Maralinga
Agnes and the Hitman
Charlie All Night
Faking It
Almost Like Being in Love
Pride & Prejudice
Bet Me
North and South
The Winter Sea
Here Comes the Groom

Authors:
Mike Gayle
Nick Earls
Mark Barrowcliffe
Dominic Knight
MLN Hanover
Nicholas Sparks
Terry Pratchett
Tamara Allen
Nalini Singh
Melanie La'Brooy
Toni Jordan
Erica Hayes
Dominic Knight
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Jennifer Crusie
Julia Quinn
Glen Savan
Annie West
Paula Roe
Marion Lennox
Kelly Hunter
Fiona MacArthur
Lilian Darcy
Sharon Archer
Melanie Milburne
Lexxi Couper
Jess Dee
Rhian Cahill
Emma Darcy
Christine Wells
Helene Young
Keri Arthur
Erica Hayes
Tracey O'Hara
Bronwyn Parry
Stephanie Laurens
Anna Campbell
Anne Gracie
Vashti Farrer
Rod Clement
Paullina Simons
Diana Gabaldon
Suzanne Collins
Kristan Higgins
Lois McMaster Bujold
Lisa Kleypas
Penelope Todd
Jane Austen
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Victoria Dahl
Rachel Gibson
Mary Balogh
Suzanne Brockmann
Dorothy Sayers
Judy Nunn
Catharine Asaro
Steve Kluger
Candy Tan
Sarah Wendell
Georgette Heyer
Susanna Kearsley
Neil Gaiman
Erica Hayes
Oscar Wilde
Elizabeth Gaskell
Charles Dickens
Marian Keyes
Karina Bliss


Links:
http://www.librarything.com/tag/romance

The #spbkchat libraries list

This week's topic was libraries, which engendered a very lively discussion :-)

On to the list:

Titles:
The Thirteenth Tale
Discworld (series)
A Dragon in the Library
The Book Thief
The Legend of Spud Murphy
Breaking Her Fall

Authors:
Kelley Armstrong
Eoin Colfer
Stephen Goodwin
Frank Miller

Links:
http://twitter.com/wcl_library
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/may/12/libraries-crisis-literary-culture-thriving
http://twitter.com/lilac_library
http://www.aotearoapeoplesnetwork.org/content/about-us
http://twitter.com/invlibrary
http://www.salon.com/books/libraries_and_librarians/index.html?story=/books/laura_miller/2011/05/11/nypl_centennial
http://www.randwick.nsw.gov.au/A_sense_of_community/Library/Downloadable_audiobooks_and_eBooks/index.aspx
http://www.belletrista.com/2011/Issue11%20/index.php
http://readersadvisory.wetpaint.com/
http://twitter.com/Auckland_Libs
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/Library/WhatsNew.asp
http://www.ashfield.nsw.gov.au/page/authors_at_ashfield.html

The #spbkchat general chat list

It was a general chat for tonight's #spbkchat, which is always interesting because the topic ranges so far and wide.

Here is tonight's list:

Titles:
Madame Bovary
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Magician
Silverthorn
Harry Potter
Kraken
The Name of the Wind
Wolf Hall
Relic
Game of Thrones
Project Daedelus
Clash of Kings
Transported
Vorkosigan (saga)
Warhammer 40k
Books in the Trees
When She Came Walking
The Graveyard Book
Momo
Island
Tempting a Proper Lady
Tuscan Rose
City of Fallen Angels
Zombie
Dark Roots
Totto-chan The Little Girl at the Window
The Elephant Vanishes
My Name is Red
Taman
Anna Karenina
Bump
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Downton Abbey
Room With A View
The Machine Stops
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
War and Peace

Authors:
Raymond E Feist
J R R Tolkien
Robin Hobb
Thomas Hoover
L M Bujold
Tim Jones
Neil Gaiman
Owen Marshall
Michael Ende
Penelope Todd
Georgette Heyer
James Tiptree Jnr
Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Moon
Joan Vinge
Anne McCaffrey
CJ Cherryh
Debra Mullins
Rachel Caine
Cassandra Clare
L M Montgomery
Joan Aiken
Elizabeth Enright
Christopher Golden
Cate Kennedy
Gene Wolfe
James Tiptree
Alice Sheldon
David Levine
Jack Marx
Murakami
Orhan Pamuk
Mikhail Lermontov
Jane Austen
J.G Farrell
H. G. Wells
Jim Butcher
J V Jones
Jane Lindskold
Robin Hobb
Jim Butcher
David and Leigh Eddings
E M Forster
The Brontes
Leo Tolstoy

Links:
http://timjonesbooks.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-of-warm-south.html
http://www.dandavin.org.nz/readerswritersalive.htm
http://jopre.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/southland-i-love-you/

The #spbkchat war fiction list

Monday was Anzac Day in New Zealand and Australia - http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/anzacday - so the topic for this week's chat was war fiction.




Titles:
Dr Zhivago
Henderson Boys (series)
Last Man to Die
Didius Falco (series)
Atonement
House of Cards
Gone With the Wind
The Tomorrow Series
Les Misérables
Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party Drowning Ruth
Tears of the Desert
Catch-22
The King's General
Summer of my German Soldier
A Brief History of Time
Café Scheherazade
The Notebook
Dear John
Night Watch
Code Talker
The Water Horse
Rose of Sebastopol
Cazalet Chronicle (series)
Barbed Wire and Roses
The People's Act of Love
Ransom
Exodus
The Last Song
A Long Way Gone
The Iliad
Mila 18
Mitla Pass
The Bronze Horseman
Lord Whimsey (series)
After the War
Fall on Your Knees
The Way the Crow Flies
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Old Man's War
Soldier Son (series)
Birdsong
Suite Francaise
Girl at Lion D'Or
Anne Frank's Diary
Boy in Striped Pyjamas
The Book Thief
Regeneration
Misha
Night of Flames
The Betrayal
The Siege
Madonnas of Leningrad
Archie's War
Temeraire (series)
The Road to Yesterday
Fly Girl
The Beauty Chorus
James Bond (series)
The Road to Yesterday
The Odyssey
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Moffats (series)
Melendy Quartet (series)
Rilla of Ingleside
Troubleshooter (series)
Unsung Hero
Little Women
Empire of the Sun
Anne of Green Gables
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Whiskey Galore
And Quiet Flows The Don
Little Paradise
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Dead in the Family
Sookie Stackhouse (series)
War of the Oaks
Cryptonomicon
A Clash of Kings
Room
Rumble in the Jungle
War & Peace
War of the Roses
Outlander (series)
The Winter Sea


Authors:
Boris Pasternak
Robert Muchamore
Michael Dobbs
Manda Scott
Jules Watson
Lindsay Davies
Stephen Saylor
John Marsden
M T Anderson
Rosemary Sutcliffe
Joseph Heller
Betty Greene
Stephen Hawkings
Nicholas Sparks
Sarah Waters

J Bruhac
Arnold Zable
Ronald Welch
Heinrich Böll
Julia Gregson
Katherine McMahon
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Peter Yeldham
Anthony Price
James Meek
David Malouf

Nelson DeMille
Leon Uris
Ishmael Beah
Paulina Simons
Dorothy L Sayers
Bob Kerr
David Suzuki
John Scalzi
Robin Hobbs
Sebastian Faulks
Irene Nemirovsky
Markus Zusak
Pat Barker
Douglas W Jacobsen
Corrie Ten Boom
Sandra Worth
Michelle Moran
Noel Barber
Helen Dunmore
Debra Dean
Harry Turtledove
Naomi Novik
Sherri L Smith
Kate Lord Brown
Ian Fleming
Homer

Elizabeth Enright
L M Montgomery
Jane Yolen
Agatha Christie
Suzanne Brockmann
J G Ballard
Connie Willis
Compton MacKenzie
Gabrielle Wang
Emma Bull
Neal Stephenson
Sharon Kay Penman
Elizabeth Chadwick
Susanna Kearsley
Diana Gabaldon
Lucilla Andrews


Links:
http://novelchallenges.blogspot.com/
http://www.historicalnovels.info/20th-Century.html