The #spbkchat children's favourites list

Another lively chat about childhood favourites!

Next week - general chat/Merry Christmas!

The list:

Titles:
Freckles
Girl of Limberlost
Double Lotte
Sweet Valley High (series)
Fearstreet (series)
Three Men in Snow
Babysitters Club (series)
Emil and the Three Twins
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Anne of Green Gables (series)
A Hundred Million Francs
No Flying in the House
A Wrinkle in Time
Misty of Chincoteague
Mixed-Up Files
Dr Dolittle
Charlotte's Web
Never Say Goodbye
Mad Magazine
Rocket to Limbo
The Anything Box
Ranger (series)
Frying Classroom
The Ringmaster's Secret
Choose Your Own Adventure (series)
P S I Love You
The Bone People
Angelique (series)
Trixie Beldon (series)
Hardy Boys (series)
Swallows & Amazons
The Dark is Rising (series)
The Secret Garden
Little Women
Daddy Long Legs
Goosebumps (series)
Last of the Mohicans
Watcher on the Tower
Little Women
Katy (series)
Treasure Island
Kidnapped
Gawaine and the Green Knight
The Crystal Cave (series)
The Silmarillion
My Friend Flicka
Call of the Wild
A Terhune's Lad: A Dog
Caspar the Friendly Ghost
Richie Rich
Archie
The Silver Brumby (series)
The Man Who Was Magic
Manxmouse
Horse in the House
Smoke
Nancy Drew (series)
Other Sandals
High Road Home

Snow Cloud Stallion

Peyton Place
Beautiful Girl
Mrs Pepperpot
Tom Brown's Schooldays
The Happy Prince
The Selfish Giant
A Wizard of Earthsea (series)
Brothers Grimm (series)
The Snow Queen
Harry Potter (series)
A Little Princess
The Fir Tree
The Little Mermaid
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Little Bookroom
Baby Island
Jacob I Have Loved
A Summer to Die
The Monster at the End of this Book
Moomintroll (series)
Sherlock Holmes (series)
Harry the Dirty Dog
101 Dalmations
Starlight Barking
Little House (series)
Magic (series)
Abbey Girls (series)
Naughtiest Girl in the School (series)
Famous Five (series)
Secret Seven (series)
Mandingo
Spot (series)
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Obernewtyn
Possum Magic
Goodnight Moon
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Muddle Headed Wombat
Elmer the Elephant
Pride & Prejudice
Pippi Longstocking
Biggles
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
Swallows and Amazons
TinTin
Nina
Asterix
His Dark Materials (series)
Artemis Fowl (series)
The Magic Pudding
Glory Gardens (series)
Black Beauty
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Emerald Atlas
Tomorrow, When the War Began (series)
Botternikes and Gumbles
A Rag and a Bone and a Hank of Hair
A Little Bushmaid
Across the Barricades
The Hunger Games (series)
Summer of My German Soldier
Cupola House
The Changeling
The Chronicles of Prydian
Peter Pan
The Little Prince
Seven Little Australians
National Velvet
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Katie and the Big Snow
Aesop's Fables
Mother Goose
The Pigeon
Where the Wild Things Are
Heidi
The Nest
Billabong (series)
The Wind in the Willows
The Witches
Matilda
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Hobbit
Jane of Lantern Hill
Magic of Marigold
The Blue Lantern
Snugglepot
Cuddlepie
Blinky Bill
Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Animorphs (series)
Digit Duck
Eagle of the 9th
Carbonel
The Riddle of the Trumpalar
Carbonel (series)
Babar


Authors:

R L Stine
Christopher Pike
Roald Dahl
Paul Jennings
P R Frost
Erich Kastner
Paul Berna
Betty Brock
Marguerite Henry
Chris Cutcher
Nancy Farmer
Madeline L'Engle
Enid Blyton
Judy Blume
Alan E Nourse
Zenna Henderson
John Flanagan
Jean Plaidy
Hugh Walters
Barbara Conklin
Susan Cooper
Catherine Gaskin
Mary Stewart
Elizabeth Goudge
J R R Tolkien
Paul Gallico
Sally Watson
Jack London
Phillip Turner
Geoffrey Trease
Ursula le Guin
Andre Norton
Elizabeth Enright
Noel Streatfield
Alf Proysen
Alfred Hitchcock
Oscar Wilde
V C Andrews
Eleanor Farjeon
E E Nesbitt
Robert Heinlein
Isaac Asimov
Carol Ryrie Brink
Katherine Paterson
Lois Lowry
Statton Porter
Hans Christian Anderson
E J Oxenham
C S Lewis
Jane Austen
Baroness Orczy
Beatrix Potter
Colin Thiele
Phillip Pullman
Eoin Colfer
John Stephens
John Marsden
Patricia Wrightson
Elizabeth Enright
Eleanor Estes
Nicholas Fisk
Agatha Christie
Mabel Leigh Hunt
Mary Elwyn Patchett
Zilpha Keatley
Kate deGoldi
Pamela Allen
Ethel Turner
Mary Durack
Mary Grant Bruce
Mo Willems
Johanna Spyri
L M Montgomery
Arthur Ransome
Emilio Salgari
Jules Verne
Anthony Buckeridge
Morris Gleitzman
Barbara Sleigh
Dr Seuss


Links:
http://www.facebook.com/AbbeysBookshop

The #spbkchat music list

Another great chat - all about music, and music-themed books. Next week we're talking about childhood favourites.

On to the list:

Titles:
IQ84
Cloud Atlas
Nodame Cantabile
Killing the Rabbit
A Suitable Boy
An Equal Music
The Music of Words
Phantom of the Opera
The Thieving Magpie
Neon Angel
Two Weeks Notice (film)
Music and Lyrics (film)
Contagion (film)
Don't Start Me Talking
The Magic Engineer (Recluse series)
Singing the Dogstar Blues
Music and Silence
About a Boy
Archer's Good
A Visit from the Goon Squad
The Music of Chance
Getting Over Jack Wagner
Audrey Wait!
Psalm at Journey's End
Discworld (series)
Soul Music
Pet Shop Boys, Literally
The Tempest
This is Your Brain on Music
In a Grove
Dragons of Pern (series)
Stories We Could Tell
Spellsinger (series)
Spellsong
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Lit Riff
Five Flavours of Dumb
Harmonic Feedback
Virtuosity
I Wanna Be Your Joey
Guitar Girl
Popular Music
Haunted Ballads (series)
Dash and Lily
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Where She Went
Norwegian Wood
Sputnik Sweetheart
If I Stay
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Amy and Roger's Epic Detour
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
High Fidelity
Say Anything (film)
Fever Pitch
Grosse Point Blank (film)
Before the Poison
Nocturnes



Authors:
Slash
Murakami
Tomoko Ninomiya
David Mitchell
Alison Goodman
Vikram Seth
Rossini (composer)
Cherie Currie
Marc Lawrence (composer)
Rose Tremain
Jay Rubin
Paul Kelly
Sharon McCrumb
L E Modesitt Jnr
J Rubin
Diana Wynne Jones
Paul Auster
Erik Fosnes Hansen
Chris Heath
Carrie Vaughn
David Levithan
Akutagawa
Anne McCaffrey
Tony Parsons
Alan Dean Foster
Jim Morrison
Bob Dylan
Esi Edugyan
Mikael Niemi
Deborah Grabien
Morgan Matson
Nick Hornby
Kazuo Ishiguro



Links:
http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/musical-fiction
http://tonysreadinglist.blogspot.com/2011/12/1q84-book-one-split-decision.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Schumann
http://www.classical.net/music/books/fiction.php
http://www.webrary.org/rs/flbklists/musicfic.html
http://www.suzs-space.com/2011/10/after-dark-haruki-murakami/

The #spbkchat religion/spirituality chat list

Another lively chat  - we've been a talkative lot lately - lol.

On to the list, and next week we're talking books about music :-)

Titles:
Brother Cadfael (series)
Nine Tailors
Death at Intervals
IQ84
Kafka on the Shore
Silence
Ghosts & UFOs & Mysterious Creatures
The Genesee Diary
The After-Death Room: Journey Into Spiritual Activism
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Spirit Abroad: A 2nd Selection of NZ Spiritual Verse
Jacob I Have Loved
Life After God
The Submerged Cathedral
Samaria (series)
Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret
Pagan in the City
Uncommon Heroes (series)
O'Malley (series)
Spiral Dance
5th Sacred Thing
A Complicated Kindness
Heroes of Quantico (series)
The Odyssey
The Iliad
Eat, Pray, Love
Holy Cow
The Satanic Verses
Harry Potter (series)
The Da Vinci Code
Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
The House of Mirth
Angels and Demons
Zen Bones, Zen Flesh
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
The Book of Tao
The Bible for Sinners
His Dark Materials (series)
The Red Tent
The Sparrow
Children of God
Narnia (series)
The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs
The Screwtape Letters
In This House of Brede
Mere Christianity

The Preacher's Bride

I <3 Mormons

Red/White/Black (series)

Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture

Paradise Lost

This Present Darkness

Piercing the Darkness

Absence of Mind

A Thousand Lives

The God Delusion

Authors:
Dorothy L Sayers
Agatha Christie
Shusaku Endo
Jose Saragamo
Harukai Murakami
Julie Miller & Grant Osborne
Jo Davy & James Gilberd
Susan Hill
Michael McColly
Jean-Michel Bauby
Douglas Coupland
Charlotte Wood
Shusaku Endo
Sharon Shinn
Judy Blume
Margaret and Katherine Paterson
Eason
Starhawk
Miriam Toews
Salman Rushdie
Sarah McDonald
Edith Wharton
Matthew Reilly
Christopher Rowland and Jonathon Roberts
Phillip Pullman
Karen Armstrong
Maria Doria Russell
C S Lewis
Edward Carpenter
Rumer Godden
Tricia Goyer
Sherry Jones
Jody Hedlund
Ted Dekker
Arthur Evans
Aimee & David Thurlo
Milton
Frank Peretti
Marilynne Robinson
H V Morton
Richard Dawkins

Links:
http://www.tonysreadinglist.blogspot.com/2011/06/its-oh-so-quiet.html
http://cuteoverload.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments
http://www.eyeonbooks.com/interviews/david-javerbaum-the-last-testament/

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

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/

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

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/