Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Official Book List

Combining all the ideas into one spot.

G.K. Chesterton - check!
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson - check! Wait! Apparently it has a sequel!
Inheritance Series by Christopher Paolini - partway done
The Tennis Shoes series by Chris Heimerdinger - partway done
The Seventh Seal series
David McCullough
Jane Austen - I've read Pride and Prejudice, and got partway through Mansfield Park.
Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson - partway done
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Hugh Nibley
C.S. Lewis - I've read The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and part of Mere Christianity.
Shakespeare
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
J.D. Salinger
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Siddhartha
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
Real Enemies by Kathryn S. Olmsted
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux - check!
Women of Genesis series by Orson Scott Card - I've read Sarah and a couple chapters of Rebekah.
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Dickens
Percy Jackson & the Olympians series by Rick Riordan
Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson
Tamora Pierce - I remember really liking some of her series when I was in middle school.
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Kate DiCamillo

Also, books to own someday:
A collection by G.K. Chesterton
Madeleine L'Engle's series "A Wrinkle in Time"

More suggestions:
http://mckayalumni.byu.edu/s/1085/09-education/index.aspx?sid=1085&gid=10&pgid=4984

I have also written notes to myself to check out Lynn Kurland, Rachel Hartman, Diane Stanley, Helen Epstein (Where She Came From), Elie Wiesel (The Trial of God), Murasaki Shikibu (The Tale of Genji), and Parker Palmer (Let Your Life Speak). I think those authors had caught my eye while walking through a bookstore, and the names have been sitting in my phone ever since. I'll need to google them sometime and see if they're any good. A friend also recommended: Austenland series by Shannon Hale and Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare.

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