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Club Med Turkoise Feb 2006
Daily Dose of Imagery (Toronto):
Karen's Lists
A
Adams, Douglas
SCIENCE FICTION / HUMOUR
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
WORTH RE-READING
The Restaurant at the Edge of the Universe
I MUST READ ALL OF THIS SERIES
Adams, Richard
FICTION / FANTASY
Watership Down
Ahmad, Kassim
FICTION / SHORT STORIES
A Common Story
SHORT STORY FROM TWENTY-TWO MALAYSIAN STORIES
Albom, Mitch
FICTION
The Five People You Meet in Heaven R
Alexander, Lloyd
CHILDREN / FANTASY
The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
 Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
FICTION
The Cure for Death by Lightning
Anderson, Laurie Halse
TEEN
Speak R
Armstrong, Kelley
FICTION / FANTASY / ROMANCE
Bitten R
Asimov, Isaac
SCIENCE FICTION
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
Atwood, Margaret
FICTION
Alias Grace
Bluebeard's Egg
Surfacing
Handmaid's Tale
Cat's Eye
The Robber Bride
Auel, Jean
FICTION
Clan of the Cave Bear
Valley of the Horses
Austen, Jane
FICTION
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
B
Bach, Richard
FICTION
Jonathan Livingston Seagull: a story
ACTUALLY A FABLE: about a seagull
Badami, Anita Rau
FICTION
Tamarind Mem
A.K.A.: Tamarind Woman
Baldacci, David
FICTION
Absolute Power
Total Control
The Winner
The Simple Truth
Saving Faith
Baldwin, Shauna Singh
FICTION
What the Body Remembers
EXCELLENT
The Tiger Claw R
Bantock, Nick
FICTION
Griffin and Sabine
Sabine's Notebook
The Golden Mean
Beck, Leslie
HEALTH AND FITNESS
Leslie Beck's Nutrition Encyclopedia R
Bemrose, John
FICTION
The Island Walkers R
Blanchard, Ken
BUSINESS
Gung Ho!
Blume, Judy
CHILDREN
Blubber
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Bradbury, Ray
SCIENCE FICTION
Fahrenheit 451
HAVE YOU SEEN THE MOVIE?
Martian Chronicles
CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION: and beautiful
Bright, Susie
EROTICA / EDITOR
Totally Herotica
SHORT STORIES/VARIOUS AUTHORS
Brontë, Charlotte
FICTION
Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily
FICTION
Wuthering Heights
Brookner, Anita
FICTION
Look at Me
Brown, Dan
FICTION
Angels and Demons
The DaVinci Code
Bryson, Bill
TRAVEL / HUMOUR
In a Sunburned Country
ABOUT AUSTRALIA
Burgess, Anthony
FICTION
The Malayan Trilogy: Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket, Beds in the East
A Clockwork Orange
Napoleon Symphony
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
CHILDREN
The Secret Garden
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
FANTASY
Pellucidar
KIN TO THE TARZAN SERIES
Byatt, A.S.
FICTION
Possession
Angels and Insects
Babel Tower
C
Cameron, Amy
HUMOUR
Playing with Matches
Camus, Albert
DRAMA (FRENCH TRANSLATION)
Caligula
Capote, Truman
FICTION / TRUE CRIME
Breakfast at Tiffany's
In Cold Blood
Card, Orson Scott
SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY
The Tales of Alvin Maker: Seventh Son
TAM: Red Prophet
TAM: Prentice Alvin
TAM: Alvin Journeyman
TAM: Heartfire
Ender: Ender's Game
E: Speaker for the Dead
E: Xenocide
E: Children of the Mind
E: Ender's Shadow
E: Shadow of the Hegemon
Homecoming: The Memory of Earth
H: The Call of Earth
H: The Ships of Earth
H: Earthfall
H: Earthborn
Enchantment
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
The Worthing Saga
Carey, Peter
FICTION / TRAVEL
Oscar and Lucinda
30 Days in Sydney
The True History of the Kelly Gang
Jack Maggs R
Carr, Emily
BIOGRAPHY
Klee Wyck
Carroll, Lewis
CHILDREN / FANTASY
Alice in Wonderland
Chevalier, Tracy
FICTION
Girl with a Pearl Earring R
The Virgin Blue
Chong, Mary Frances
FICTION / SHORT STORIES
The Jade Bracelet
SHORT STORY FROM TWENTY-TWO MALAYSIAN STORIES
Christie, Dame Agatha
MYSTERY
And Then There Were None
ONE OF MANY...
Clark, Eliza
FICTION
What You Need
Coelho, Paulo
FICTION / ALEGORY
The Alchemist
Cole, Brock
TEEN
The Facts Speak for Themselves R
Connelly, Michael R
MYSTERY: Detective Harry Bosch
The Black Echo
The Black Ice
The Concrete Blonde
The Last Coyote
The Poet
Trunk Music
Blood Work
Angels Flight
Void Moon
A Darkness More than Night
City of Bones
Chasing the Dime
Lost Light
The Narrows
The Closers
The Lincoln Lawyer
Conrad, Joseph
FICTION
Under Western Eyes
SHORT STORIES
Heart of Darkness
SO MUCH OF OUR CULTURE IS BASED ON THIS BOOK
Victory
Cook, Robin
FICTION
Abduction R
Cookson, Dame Catherine
FICTION
The Straw Hat
Cooney, Caroline B.
TEEN
The Face on the Milk Carton
Courtenay, Bryce
FICTION
The Power of One
ONE OF MY FAVOURITE BOOKS (AND AUTHORS)
Tandia
The Potato Factory
Tommo & Hawk
The Night Country
Jessica
Solomon's Song
Coyote, Ivan E.
BIOGRAPHY
One Man's Trash
GOOD WRITING
Crace, Jim
FICTION
Being Dead
Crichton, Michael
FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION
Congo
Eaters of the Dead
Sphere
Andromeda Strain
Cushman, Karen
CHILDREN
Catherine, Called Birdy
Czerneda, Julie E.
SCIENCE FICTION / EDITOR
Tales from the Wonder Zone: Explorer R
Tales from the Wonder Zone: Stardust R
D
Davies, Robertson
FICTION
Fifth Business
Lyre of Orpheus
de Bernieres, Louis
FICTION
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
READ THE BOOK BEFORE SEEING THE MOVIE
Diamont, Anita
FICTION
The Red Tent
Dickens, Charles
FICTION
The Tale of Two Cities
COMPARE IT TO THE SILENT FILM CLASSIC
A Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
David Copperfield?
Donaldsen, Stephen R.
FANTASY
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: Lord Foul's Bane
CTC: The Illearth War
CTC: The Power that Preserves
The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: The Wounded Land
2CTC: The One Tree
2CTC: White Gold Weilder
Daughter of Regals
SHORT STORIES
Mordant's Need: The Mirror of Her Dreams
Mordant's Need: A Man Rides Through
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich
FICTION
The Brothers Karamazov
A CLASSIC
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
MYSTERY
The Hound of the Baskervilles
ONE OF MANY...
du Maurier, Daphne
FICTION
Rebecca
Dyer, Gwynne
POLITICS
Future: Tense R
E
Eco, Umberto
FICTION / MYSTERY
The Name of the Rose
Foucault's Pendulum
Eddings, David
FANTASY
The Belgariad: Pawn of Prophecy
The Belgariad: Queen of Sorcery
The Belgariad: Magician's Gambit
The Belgariad: Castle of Wizardry
The Belgariad: Enchanter's End Game
Ekman, Kerstin
FICTION: Swedish (translated)
The Forest of Hours R
BRILLIANT NOVEL: translated by Anna Paterson
Eliot, George
FICTION
The Mill on the Floss
Middlemarch
WORTH RE-READING
Engdahl, Sylvia Louise
YOUNG READERS
Enchantress from the Stars R
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Faber, Michel
FICTION
The Crimson Petal and the White R
Faulkner, William
FICTION
Go Down, Moses
As I Lay Dying
Light in August
Fernando, Lloyd
EDITOR (FICTION)
Twenty-Two Malaysian Stories
SEE INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS
Fielding, Helen
FICTION / HUMOUR
Bridget Jones Diary
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Fielding, Joseph
FICTION / SATIRE
Shamela
Fielding, Joy
FICTION
Kiss Mommie Goodbye
Findley, Timothy
FICTION
Headhunter
SUBTEXT BASED ON HEART OF DARKNESS
The Piano Man's Daughter
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
FICTION
The Great Gatsby
Follett, Ken
FICTION
Night Over Water
Fowles, John
FICTION
Daniel Martin
The Collector
Franzen, Jonathan
FICTION
The Corrections R
Frost, Robert
POETRY
Fire and Ice
G
Gabaldon, Diana
FICTION / ROMANCE / FANTASY
Outlander
Gabriele, Lisa
FICTION
tempting Faith DiNapoli R
Gaiman, Neil
SCIENCE FICTION/GRAPHIC NOVELS
Wolves in the Walls
A YOUNG READERS GRAPHIC NOVEL
American Gods
Gallop, Rick
HEALTH AND FITNESS
The G.I. Diet R
Gibb, Camilla
FICTION
The Petty Details of So-and-so's Life R
Gibson, William
SCIENCE FICTION / FICTION
Neuromancer
Gildner, Catherine
BIOGRAPHY
Too Close to the Falls
Godman, Martha
PERSONAL FINANCE
Confessions of a Former Bill Collector
NEEDS AN EDITOR, BUT HAS A LOT OF GREAT INFORMATION: specifically Ontario, but info on Canada as well.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
FICTION: German (translated)
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Part 1)
Golden, Arthur
FICTION
Memoirs of a Geisha
Golding, William
FICTION
Lord of the Flies
Govier, Katherine
FICTION
The Truth Teller
NOT MY CUP OF TEA: I didn't finish it, though I tried!
Graham, Katharine
BIOGRAPHY
Personal History R
Greene, Graham
FICTION
The End of the Affair
Griggs, Terry
FICTION
Rogue's Wedding
Grisham, John
FICTION
The Brethren
H
Haddon, Mark
FICTION / TEENS
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
SUITABLE FOR TEENS OR ADULTS: I recommend it!
Hamilton, Jane
FICTION
Map of the World
Hammett, Dashiell
MYSTERY / "FILM NOIR": Detective Sam Spade
The Maltese Falcon
Hancock, Neil
FANTASY
Circle of Light: Greyfax Grimwald
CL: Faragon Fairingay
CL: Calix Stay
CL: Squaring The Circle
Hap, Lin Beng
FICTION / SHORT STORIES
Tricked Again
SHORT STORY FROM TWENTY-TWO MALAYSIAN STORIES
Hartley, L.P.
FICTION
The Go-Between
Hartwell, David and Kathryn Cramer, editors
FANTASY
Year's Best Fantasy 3
Hauptmann, Gaby
FICTION: German (translated)
A Handful of Manhood
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
FICTION
The Scarlet Letter
Young Goodman Brown
SHORT STORY
The Wedding Knell
SHORT STORY
Hayder, Mo
MYSTERY: Detective Inspector Jack Caffery
Birdman R
The Treatment R
The Devil of Nanking
Hemingway, Ernest
FICTION
A Farewell to Arms
Herbert, Frank
SCIENCE FICTION
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
Herbert, Brian, & Kevin J. Anderson
FICTION
Dune: House Atreides
Dune: House Harkonen
Hesse, Herman
FICTION
Siddhartha
Hodgins, Jack
FICTION
Spit Delaney's Island
RELATED SHORT STORIES
The Invention of the World
Broken Ground
The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne; or, A Word or Two On Those Port Annie Miracles
The Macken Charm
Holling, Holling Clancy
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Paddle to the Sea
Holt, Kimberly Willis
TEEN
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
RECOMMENDED TO TEENS AND TWEENS
Holt, Tom
FANTASY / HUMOUR
Falling Sideways R
Homer
FICTION / FABLE: Greek (translated)
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Hosseini, Khaled
FICTION
The Kite Runner
Hulme, Keri
FICTION
The Bone People R
I
Irving, John
FICTION
The 158-Pound Marriage
The World According to Garp
The Cider House Rules
A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Widow for One Year
A Son of the Circus
The Hotel New Hampshire
Ishiguro, Kazuo
FICTION
The Remains of the Day
A BRILLIANT NOVEL: written in the first person
J
James, Henry
FICTION
Portrait of a Lady
Daisy Miller
Jance, J.A.
MYSTERY: Sheriff Joanna Brady
Paradise Lost R
Johnston, Wayne
FICTION
The Navigator of New York
Jordan, Robert
FANTASY
The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World
The Wheel of Time: The Great Hunt
The Wheel of Time: The Dragon Reborn
The Wheel of Time: The Shadow Rising
The Wheel of Time: The Fires of Heaven
Jose, Nicholas
FICTION / ROMANCE
The Red Thread R
Joyce, James
FICTION
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"SPECTACLES, TESTICLES, WALLET AND WATCH..."
K
Kafka, Franz
FICTION / FANTASY
The Metamorphosis
The Castle
The Trial
Kan, S.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES
Inheritance
SHORT STORY FROM TWENTY-TWO MALAYSIAN STORIES
Keene, Carolyn
CHILDREN / MYSTERY: Nancy Drew writers
The Secret of the Old Clock (No.1)
I STILL HAVE SHELVES OF THESE BOOKS AT HOME
The Hidden Staircase (No.2)
The Bungalow Mystery (No.3)
Kerr, P.B.
YOUNG READERS
Children of the Lamp
Keyes, Daniel
FICTION
Flowers for Algernon
Keyes, Marian
FICTION / HUMOUR / ROMANCE
Sushi for Beginners
VERY MUCH LIKE BRIDGET JONES DIARY: I recommend her books
Rachel's Holiday
Killingley, Siew Yue
FICTION / SHORT STORIES
A Question of Dowry
SHORT STORY FROM TWENTY-TWO MALAYSIAN STORIES
Korine, Harmony
FICTION
A Crackup at the Race Riots R
POSTMODERN STRANGE STUFF: there may not be an actual point in reading this book
Kozinski, Jerzy
FICTION
The Painted Bird
A DIFFICULT BOOK
Krueger, William Kent
MYSTERY / THRILLER: *Sheriff Cork O'Connor
Iron Lake*
A GOOD READ
Boundary Waters*
Purgatory Ridge*
The Devil's Bed
Blood Hollow
L
Lamb, Wally
FICTION
She's Come Undone
I Know This Much Is True
Laurence, Margaret
FICTION
The Stone Angel
The Diviners
A Bird in the House
Lawrence, D.H.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES / POETRY
The Woman who Rode Away and Other Stories
Lee, Harper
FICTION
To Kill a Mockingbird
Liang, Yap Kok
FICTION / SHORT STORIES
A Family Quarrel
SHORT STORY FROM TWENTY-TWO MALAYSIAN STORIES
When the Saints Go Marching In
IBID.
Liang, Lee Kok
FICTION / SHORT STORIES
Return to Malaya
SHORT STORY FROM TWENTY-TWO MALAYSIAN STORIES
It's All in a Dream
IBID.
Just a Girl
IBID.
Lim, Shirley
FICTION / SHORT STORIES
Journey
SHORT STORY FROM TWENTY-TWO MALAYSIAN STORIES
Litton, Josie
ROMANCE
Dream of Me
Believe in Me
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
POETRY
Evangeline
Lowry, Lois
CHILDREN
The Giver
Gathering Blue
Ludlum, Robert
FICTION / THRILLER
Gandolfo
M
Machado, John
FICTION / SHORT STORIES
Passing Through
SHORT STORY FROM TWENTY-TWO MALAYSIAN STORIES
MacDonald, Anne-Marie
FICTION
Fall on Your Knees
Machiavelli, Nicolo
POLITICS: Italian (translated)
The Prince
MacLeod, Alistair
FICTION
No Great Mischief
WITH "THE DOG WHO TRIED TOO HARD"
Malory, Thomas
FICTION / FABLE
La Morte D'Arthur
Mann, Thomas
FICTION: German (translated)
Death in Venice
Marsh, Dame Edith Ngaio
MYSTERY
Grave Mistake
I'VE READ TOO MANY TO REMEMBER ALL THE TITLES
Hand in Glove
Singing in the Shrouds
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
FICTION / MAGIC REALISM: Spanish (translated)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
MARQUEZ IS A WONDERFUL AUTHOR
Mason, Diane Baker
FICTION
Last Summer at Barebones R
THE BOOK I SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN: I'm jealous. Read this book!
McCaffrey, Anne
SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY
Crystal Singer series, vol.1
Killashandra Crystal Singers series, vol.2
Crystal Line Crystal Singers series, vol.3
Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern series, vol.1, Lessa)
Dragonquest (Dragonriders of Pern series, vol.2, F'lar)
White Dragon
Dragonsong
Dragon Singer
Dragon Drums
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern R
Nerilka's Story R
Nimisha's Ship
Red Star Rising
Dragon's Kin
McLaughlin & Kraus
FICTION
The Nanny Diaries
McNamee, Graham
MYSTERY/TEEN FICTION
Acceleration
McTavish, Don
MEMOIR / HUMOUR
Big Rig: Comic Tales from a Long Haul Trucker
DON WRITES IN TRUCKER MAGAZINES: I won this from the publisher
Melville, Herman
FICTION
Moby-Dick
Michaels, Anne
FICTION / POETRY
Fugitive Pieces
A JEWEL OF A BOOK
Miller, Walter M.
SCIENCE FICTION
Canticle for Leibowitz
A GREAT STORY
Milton, John
FICTION
Paradise Lost
Mistry, Rohinton
FICTION
A Fine Balance R
Mitchell, David
FICTION
Cloud Atlas?
Mitchell, W.O.
FICTION
Who Has Seen the Wind
The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon
Jake and the Kid?
Mofina, Rick
FICTION
Cold Fear
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
CHILDREN / TEEN
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of The Island
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne's House of Dreams
Anne of Ingleside
The Blue Castle
Moon, Elizabeth
FANTASY
The Deed of Paksenarrion (Book T): Sheepfarmer's Daughter
Moore, Brian
FICTION
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne R
Mowat, Farley
FICTION
Never Cry Wolf
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
A Whale for the Killing
N
Nabokov, Vladimir
FICTION / EROTICA
Lolita
Nafisi, Azar
BIOGRAPHY
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Naipaul, V.S. Sir
FICTION
A Bend in the River
Niven, Larry
SCIENCE FICTION
Ringworld
Norton, Mary
CHILDRENS' FICTION
The Borrowers
LOVED IT
O
O'Connor, Flannery
FICTION
Wise Blood
The Violent Bear It Away
Everything that Rises Must Converge
O'Dell, Scott
YOUNG READERS
The Island of the Blue Dolphins
O'Faolain, Nuala
FICTION
My Dream of You R
Ondaatje, Michael
FICTION
Coming Through Slaughter
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
In the Skin of a Lion
The English Patient
Anil's Ghost
Orlean, Susan
TRUE CRIME
The Orchid Thief R
Orwell, George
SCIENCE FICTION / SATIRE / FANTASY
1984
P
Palahniuk, Chuck
FICTION / HORROR
Lullaby R
AN EXCELLENT HORROR STORY: remember the movie Fight Club?
Paolini, Christopher
FANTASY/YOUNG READERS
Eragon
Eldest
Patchett, Ann
FICTION
Bel Canto R
Patterson, James
FICTION
Along Came a Spider
Peake, Mervyn
FICTION
Gormenghast
I'VE LEARNED A LOT OF WORDS FROM THIS AUTHOR
Titus Groan
Pelletier, Cathie (aka K.C. McKinnon)
FICTION
The Weight of Winter
Phillips, Carly
ROMANCE
The Bachelor R
Pierre, DBC (aka Peter Finlay)
FICTION
Vernon God Little
SOUTH PARK MEETS HUCKLEBERRY FINN?
Poe, Edgar Allen
HORROR
The Cask of Amontillado
SHORT STORY
The Raven
POEM
The Fall of the House of Usher
Preston, Douglas, & Lincoln Child
FICTION / THRILLER
Riptide
Preston, Richard
SCIENCE / BIOLOGY
Hot Zone
The Demon in the Freezer R
Proulx, E. Annie
FICTION
The Shipping News
Pullman, Philip
CHILDREN / FANTASY
His Divine Materials: The Golden Compass
AN AMAZING SERIES
HDM: The Subtle Knife
HDM: The Amber Spyglass
Pyper, Andrew
FICTION / HORROR
Lost Girls
Q
Quarrington, Paul
FICTION
The Life of Hope
R
Rand, Ayn
FICTION / POLITICS
Atlas Shrugged
YUCKY...PLZZZT
Rankin, Ian
MYSTERY
Let It Bleed
Ransome, Arthur
YOUNG READERS
Swallows and Amazons
Rawls, Wilson
YOUNG READERS
Where the Red Fern Grows
Redfield, James
FICTION / RELIGION / NEW AGE
God and the Evolving Universe
A SURVEY OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY, AND MYSTICISM; INCLUDES MANY NEW AGE TOPICS (I DIDN'T FINISH IT...A LOT OF IT WAS REHASHING OF THESE TOPICS FOR ME...I SKIMMED THE LATTER PART OF THE BOOK)
Rice, Anne
FICTION: The vampire L'Estat, etc.
The Vampire Chronicles: Interview with a Vampire
VC: The Vampire Lestat
VC: The Queen of the Damned
VC: The Tale of the Body Thief
VC: Memnoch the Devil
VC: Merrick
INCLUDES MAYFAIRS
New Tales of the Vampires: Pandora
Lives of the Mayfair Witches: The Witching Hour
LMW: Lasher
LMW: Taltos
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
EROTICA
The Mummy
Servant of the Bones
The Feast of All Saints
DIDN'T FINISH IT...DIDN'T LIKE IT?
Violin
I KNOW I DIDN'T LIKE THIS ONE
Rice, Luanne
FICTION / ROMANCE / FANTASY
Summer Light
Richards, David Adams
FICTION
Nights Below Station Street
Mercy Among the Children R
Richler, Mordecai
FICTION / CHILDREN / COMMENTARY
Barney's Version
HE IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE AUTHORS
Solomon Gursky Was Here
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Broadsides
Robertson, R. Garcia y
HISTORICAL ROMANCE
Knight Errant
Lady Robyn
Robinson, Kim Stanley
SCIENCE FICTION
Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars R
A VERY TECHNICAL SERIES (3 BOOKS): worthwhile if you are interested in space exploration and you are actually interested in all of science, from superstrings to the science of aging
The Years of Rice and Salt
ALTERNATE HISTORY
Rowling, J.K
YOUNG READERS
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
S
Sachar, Louis
CHILDREN
Holes R
Salinger, J.D.
FICTION
Catcher in the Rye
Saramago, José
FICTION
Blindness R
Schlink, Bernhard
FICTION: German (translated)
The Reader
Scieszka, Jon
CHILDREN
The Frog Prince Continued R
BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS BY STEVE JOHNSON
Sebold, Alice
FICTION
The Lovely Bones
I READ THIS RIGHT AFTER THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN
Seng, Goh Poh
FICTION / SHORT STORIES
The Temple Bells
SHORT STORY FROM TWENTY-TWO MALAYSIAN STORIES
Sewell, Anna
FICTION / CHILDREN
Black Beauty
Shakespeare, William
DRAMA
The Tempest
Hamlet
King Lear
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
Shange, Ntozake
DRAMA
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
Shaw, George Bernard
DRAMA
St. Joan
Pygmalion
Shields, Carol
FICTION
The Stone Diaries
Unless
UNFINISHED: I couldn't identify with the character
Simenon, Georges
FICTION (TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH)
The Rich Mani>
AN INTRIGUING READ
Smith, Alexander McCall
FICTION
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Tears of the Giraffe
Morality for Beautiful Girls
The Kalahari Typing School for Men
The Full Cupboard of Life
The Sunday Philosophy Club
Smith, Betty
FICTION / TEEN
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
I RECOMMEND IT
Snelling, John
RELIGION
Buddhism: An Introductory Guide to the Buddhist Tradition
PART OF THE "NEW PERSPECTIVES" SERIES BY ELEMENT
Spyri, Johanna
CHILDREN: German (translated)
Heidi
GREAT KIDS BOOK: I read two more titles similar to Heidi, but I'm not sure if they were by Spyri, or Charles Tritten...
Staebler, Edna
COOKBOOK
More Food That Smecks
WONDERFUL MENNONITE RECIPES
Steinbeck, John
FICTION
Of Mice and Men
Stine, R.L.
CHILDRENS' FICTION
Goosebumps: Monster Blood
Sting aka Gordon Sumner
Biography
Broken Music
Stone, Andrew K.
FICTION
All Flowers Die
SELF-PUBLISHED AUTHOR: haunts the Internet reading groups
Swift, Jonathan
FICTION / SATIRE
Gulliver's Travels
Sykes, Bryan
SCIENCE
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
T
Tan, Amy
FICTION
The Kitchen God's Wife
The Joy Luck Club
Taylor, Mildred D.
YOUNG READER FICTION
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry R
Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall
NATURE / ANTHROPOLOGY
The Social Lives of Dogs: The Grace of Canine Company R
Toews, Miriam
FICTION
A Complicated Kindness
Tolkien, J.R.R.
FANTASY
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
LOTR: The Two Towers
LOTR: The Return of the King
Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevich
FICTION: Russian (translated)
Anna Karenina
Toole, John Kennedy
FICTION
The Confederacy of Dunces
Twain, Mark (aka Samuel Clemens)
FICTION / HUMOUR / MEMOIR
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Life on the Mississippi
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
SHORT STORY
U
Updike, John
FICTION
A Month of Sundays
Urquhart, Jane
FICTION
Changing Heaven
Away
I WENT TO HER READING OF THIS IN DUNDAS
The Whirlpool R
V
Vanderhaeghe, Guy
FICTION
The Englishman's Boy
Vincenzi, Penny
FICTION
Almost a Crime
Vonnegut, Kurt
FICTION
Slaughterhouse Five
W
Walker, Alice
FICTION
Possessing the Secret of Joy
Weiner, Jennifer
FICTION / HUMOUR
Good in Bed R
White, E.B.
CHILDREN
Charlotte's Web
Winchester, Simon
BIOGRAPHY
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Woodward, Bob, & Carl Bernstein
HISTORY / POLITICS
All the President's Men
EXCELLENT: the tale of Watergate
Wright, Richard B.
FICTION
Clara Callan
Woolf, Virginia
FICTION
A Room of One's Own
Mrs. Dalloway
Wyndham, John
SCIENCE FICTION
The Chrysalids
Z
Zola, Emile
FICTION / POLITICS: French (translated)
Germinal
19TH-CENTURY (?) MINER'S STRIKE AND ACCIDENT: fascinating
My Bookclub Reading List
(club inactive since July 2006)
(the most recent books are at the top)
- Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
- The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
- Adultery by Richard Wright
- The Island Walkers by John Bemrose
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- Bel Canto: A Novel by Ann Patchett
- How to be Good by Nick Hornby
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain
- Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
- Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
- Larry's Party by Carol Shields
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- Blindness by José Saramago
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildner
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- Personal History by Katharine Graham
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamont
- The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
- No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
- A Widow for One Year by John Irving
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Telling of Lies by Timothy Findley
- Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernière
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell
- Open Secrets by Alice Munro
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
- Fall on Your Knees by Anne-Marie MacDonald
- Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
- The Life of Hope by Paul Quarrington
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
- The Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt
- Away by Jane Urquhart
- The Weight of Winter by Cathie Pelletier
- The Collector by John Fowles
- Kiss Mommie Goodbye by Joy Fielding
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
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