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

The #spbkchat epic fantasy list

The discussion last Thursday was all about epic fantasy. I had to bail early because of strained eyes, but it was an excellent chat.

This coming Thursday we're talking about books that have influenced us.

On to the list!

Titles:
The Lord of the Rings
Magician (Riftwar Saga)
The Belgariad (series)
The Mallorean (series)
Obernetwyn
Witches of Eileanan
The Earthsea Chronicles (series)
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever (series)
Watergivers (series)
The Dragonbone Chair (series)
Archangel
The Black Jewels Trilogy
The Silmarillion
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Twelve Houses (series)
Ysabel
Lions of Al-rassan
The Changeling Sea
Harry Potter (series)
Daughter of the Empire (series)
Tairen Soul
Kushiel's Dart
Shannara (series)
Shogun
Dragonriders of Pern (series)
Mists of Avalon (series)
Game of Thrones (series)
Clan of the Cave Bear (series)

Authors:
J R R Tolkien
Raymond E Feist
Brent Weeks
David Eddings
Ursula le Guin
Glenda Larke
Robert Jordan
Terry Goodkind
Tad Williams
J V Jones
Anne Bishop
Sharon Shinn
Stephen Donaldson
Guy Gavriel Kay
Jacqueline Carey
Janny Wurts
C L Wilson
Sara Douglass
Juliet Marillier
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Robin Hobb
Chris Riddell
Paul Stewart
Melina Marchetta

Links:
http://www.stewartandriddell.co.uk/farflung/index.htm

The #spbkchat general chat list

The general chats are always fun and wide-ranging.

Next week - epic fantasy.

On to the list!

Titles: 
The Empty City
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Days of Blood and Starlight
Stormdancer
Seraphina
The Fault in Our Stars
Chains of Revenge
Morganville Vampires
Dreamhunter
Dreamquake
How Music Works
When She Woke
Unnatural Habits
The Belgariad (series)
The Handmaid's Tale
Mudbound
Miss Pettigrew's Home for Peculiar Children
Empty City
Dean of Daft
Twilight (series)
The Beet Queen
Tracks
Love Medicine
Back to Blood
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Authors:
Berit Ellingsen
Tara Moss
Keziah Hill
Melina Marchetta
Rachel Caine
Elizabeth Knox
David Byrne
Kerry Greenwood
David Eddings
Hillary Jordan
Tyson Bley
Katherine Mansfield
Rhian Cahill
Tom Wolfe
Paullina Simons

Links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/us/louise-erdrichs-novel-the-round-house-wins-national-book-award.html?_r=1&

The #spbkchat personal reading history list

Next week - e-readers.

On to the list for this week.

Titles:
Wuthering Heights
Narnia (series)
Asterix (series)
Nancy Drew (series)
Sherlock Holmes (series)
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Tintin
Superman
Archie
Magician
These Old Shades
Anne of Green Gables
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Berger & Mitry (series)
Twilight (series)
Fifty Shades of Grey
Forbidden
Les Miserables
The Age of Innocence
The House of Mirth
Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
India Black (series)
Ethan Frome
Goosebumps (series)
Wait till Helen Comes
The Witch Herself
Jane Eyre
Forever
Trixie Belden
Endless Love
The Big Smoke
Daisy Dalrymple (series)
Oliver Twist
Wind in the Willows
The Never Ending Story
Devil's Cub
Venetia
Looking for Alibrandi
Babysitter's Club (series)
Animalia

Authors:
Dick Francis
J R R Tolkien
Raymond E Feist
Georgette Heyer
Charlotte Lamb
Alan E Nourse
Isaac Asimov
Robert Heinlen
Klegaard
Ronald Weich
Jane Austen
Baroness Orczy
L M Montgomery
David Handler
Tabitha Suzuma
V C Andrews
Judy Blume
Carol K Carr
Christopher Pike
R L Stine
Enid Blyton
Elizabeth Gaskell
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Anne Bronte
Anthony Trollope
Charles Dickens
Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Fontane
Mann
Storm
Balzac
Melina Marchetta
John Marsden
Paul Jennings
Graeme Base


Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Series