Okay, sorry, this is my last post!
May. 11th, 2004 05:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I forgot, I was going to list good books for Jazzy. She needs a new obsession. So, firstly, anybody with good taste in books is welcome to post their favorite/least favorite authors/books, even though I just asked this a while ago.
Secondly, my in-no-order list. Books are in italics, authors are in bold. When both a book and its author appear on the list, the book is more highly reccommended than the rest of the books by that author.
Fahrenheit 451
The Giver
Gathering Blue
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeline L'Engle
Night Watch
Monstrous Regiment
Jingo
Terry Pratchett
Letter's from the Inside
Tomorrow, when the War Began
John Marsden
Jean Auel (yes, she's overrated, but her books are nice and long)
Dr. Seuss (with an eye to social criticism)
Handmaid's Tale
1984
Animal Farm
Brave New World
The Third Witch
Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler
Ella Enchanted
Zel
Donna Jo Napoli
Jackeroo
Interstellar Pig
Jill Churchill
Ender's Game
Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card
Patricia C. Wrede
Diane Duane
Diana Wynne Jones
Trickster's Choice
Tamora Pierce
Shade's Children
Patrice Kindl
Sophie's World
The Elegant Universe
I am the Cheese
Speak
Good Omens
I could go on, but that's enough for now, I think. Wow. I read a lot of kid's books. *shrugs*
Incidentally, I'm also getting interested in picture books on their own merits. They've always interested me, so this is just an upswing in the cycle, probably prompted by the babies.
Secondly, my in-no-order list. Books are in italics, authors are in bold. When both a book and its author appear on the list, the book is more highly reccommended than the rest of the books by that author.
Fahrenheit 451
The Giver
Gathering Blue
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeline L'Engle
Night Watch
Monstrous Regiment
Jingo
Terry Pratchett
Letter's from the Inside
Tomorrow, when the War Began
John Marsden
Jean Auel (yes, she's overrated, but her books are nice and long)
Dr. Seuss (with an eye to social criticism)
Handmaid's Tale
1984
Animal Farm
Brave New World
The Third Witch
Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler
Ella Enchanted
Zel
Donna Jo Napoli
Jackeroo
Interstellar Pig
Jill Churchill
Ender's Game
Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card
Patricia C. Wrede
Diane Duane
Diana Wynne Jones
Trickster's Choice
Tamora Pierce
Shade's Children
Patrice Kindl
Sophie's World
The Elegant Universe
I am the Cheese
Speak
Good Omens
I could go on, but that's enough for now, I think. Wow. I read a lot of kid's books. *shrugs*
Incidentally, I'm also getting interested in picture books on their own merits. They've always interested me, so this is just an upswing in the cycle, probably prompted by the babies.
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Date: 2004-05-11 06:35 am (UTC)Then of course Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Tales of Sherlock Holmes.
The Narnia Chronicles by C.S. Lewis
Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicls
Bram Stoker's "Dracula"
Gaston Leroux's "Phantom of the Opera"
This one might be hard to get in the US, but it might be possible, "Angels of the Universe" by the Icelandic author Einar Már Guðmundsson. It is a novel he wrote with the life of his brother as an inspiration. His older brother had Scizophrenia, and the story is very personal, and I think it is among the best books I have read, it is very beautiful, and if you are interested, the story has also been filmed and it is a very good film, and the music in the film is better yet. It has very many beautiful metaphors and it is very vivid, and I think it is a good read for those that see the world a little differently than the rest, and for those that see it normally, it is a peek into that which is unknown to them.