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Your Top Ten Books of 2005

Hey Ell, I'm really glad you liked Time's Arrow! :D Have you ever read A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes? I read that one for the same postmodernist literature class I read Time's Arrow for and I liked History even better. Check it out here.
 
KristoCat said:
Have you ever read A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes? I read that one for the same postmodernist literature class I read Time's Arrow for and I liked History even better. Check it out here.
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Thanks for the recommendation, Kristo.

Looks good (love the peak inside feature of Amazon) and has been added to my TBR list. :D
 
1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
2. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks
3. Opening Skinner's Box by Lauren Slater
4. The Pact by Jodi Picoult
5. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
6. Jigs and Reels by Joanne Harris
7. Chocolat by Joanne Harris
8. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
9. Mia's World by Mia Dolan
10. If the Spirit Moves You by Justine Picardie
 
Eli by Bill Myers
Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson by Keith Ablow (heh)
Flabbergasted by Ray Blackson
Night Visions by Thomas Fahy
The Invitation by Nancy Moser
The Yada Yada Prayer Club
The Devil Wears Prada
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Night by Eli Wiesel
 
In no particular order…

Something Wicked this way comes by Ray Bradbury
State of Fear by Michael Crichton
Inca Gold by Clive Cussler
Trojan Odyssey by Clive Cussler
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Hondo by Louis L'Amore
Map of Bones by James Rollins
Amazonia by James Rollins
Shane by Jack Schaefer
By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz
 
From the cheap seats...
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Plan B (nf) - Anne Lamott
In Praise of Slowness (nf) - Carl Honore - The best book I read this year.
China, Inc (nf) - Ted Fishman
The Last Word and the Word After That - Brian McLaren
Post-Rapture Radio - Russell Rathbun
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Specimen Days - Michael Cunningham
Fallen - David Maine

I know it's 11, but I'm more of a reader than a math guy.
 
5 (as I'm in a rush)off the top of my head:
Blindness - Jose Saramago
The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Sunne in Splendour - Sharon Penman
The Land of Laughs - Jonathon Carrol
 
Nobokov, Vladmir Lolita
Niffenger, Audrey The Time Traveller's Wife
Albom, Mitch Tuesdays With Morrie
MacDonald, Ann-Marie The Way the Crow Flies
Lawson, Mary Crow Lake
Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Beas
Gladwell, Malcolm The Tipping Point
Azar, Nafisi Reading Lolita in Tehran
Toews, Mariam A Complicated Kindness
Gregory, Phillipa The Other Boleyn Girl


In no particular order. There's a serious lack of men on my list. I'm going to make an effort to read more male authors in the new year.
 
1. harry potter-half blood prince.
2. the count of monte cristo
3. artemis fowl 1 and 2
4. wyrd sisters
5. a great and terrible beauty.
6. pride and prejudeice
7. hannibal, le defi de carthage

i'll ad more later, i guess.
 
Hmmm well I think this would be my top ten fav books of '05, there the ones that came to mind first anyway, so here there are not in order either.:p

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin

Idlewild - Nick Sagan

Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier

Nights of Rain and Stars - Maeve Binchy

The Rescue - Nicholas Sparks

The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux

Dance with the Devil - Sherrilyn Kenyon

Night Play - Sherrilyn Kenyon

Three Fates - Nora Roberts
 
My Top 10 of 2005

I am new here. I know I will mess up Abcedren's name. I met her on bookcrossings. She told me about this site. I am participating in the Olympic reading challenge with her. She knows me as bookwormonthebeach.
I am happy to be here, and I look forward to meeting lots of readers here and sharing thoughts.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Andie :)


The Patron Saint Of Liars - Anne Patchett

My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult

The Ocean Between Us - Susan Wiggs

White Hot - Sandra Brown

Skipping Christmas - John Grisham

The Christmas Shoes - Donna VanLeire

Light in August - William Faulkner ( 2nd time reading)

The Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner (2nd time reading)

As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner ( 2nd time reading)

The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
 
ladynae said:
I am new here. I know I will mess up Abcedren's name. I met her on bookcrossings. She told me about this site. I am participating in the Olympic reading challenge with her. She knows me as bookwormonthebeach.
I am happy to be here, and I look forward to meeting lots of readers here and sharing thoughts.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Andie :)


The Patron Saint Of Liars - Anne Patchett

My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult

The Ocean Between Us - Susan Wiggs

White Hot - Sandra Brown

Skipping Christmas - John Grisham

The Christmas Shoes - Donna VanLeire

Light in August - William Faulkner ( 2nd time reading)

The Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner (2nd time reading)

As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner ( 2nd time reading)

The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
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Welcome!! Glad to have you here; I think you'll enjoy this bunch of fine folks.
 
In no real order...

1. Out - Natsuo Kirino
2. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
3. Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden
4. Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
5. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
6. Shade's Children - Garth Nix
7. 1st To Die - James Patterson
8. A Child Called 'It' - Dave Pelzer
9. The Hitckhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
10. Bitten - Kelley Armstrong

Also have to mention The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugendes and The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell by Marilyn Manson. Too many good books this year. :)

I can't wait to start stocking up on books for next year! :D
 
Lolita ; Vladimir Nabokov
As I lay Dying ; William Faulkner
The Poisonwood Bible; Barbara Kingsolver
The Remains of the Day ; Kazuo Ishiguro
The Bean Trees ; Barbara Kingsolver
The Forest ; Edward Rutherfurd
Autobiography of a Geisha ; Sayo Masuda
Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters Trilogy) ; Juliet Marillier
Peacocks Dancing ; Sharon Maas
Palindrome Hannah ; Michael Bailey
 
Hi all, be gentle 'cause I'm a newbie here although I'm quite active on several other forums. I'm a big fantasy fan and to a lesser extent SF.

My top 11 reads of 2005 (not all necessarily published in 2005) in no particular order:

Runes Of The Earth - Stephen Donaldson
Dance Of The Chameleon Book II- Ricardo Pinto (underated author IMO)
Midnight Tides - Steven Erikson
Warrior Prophet - R Scott Bakker
Mark Of Ran - Paul Kearney (another underated author IMO)
Traitor's Knot - Janny Wurts
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
In The Ruins - Kate Elliott
Viriconium - M John Harrison
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
A Feast For Crows - George RR Martin

PS Just couldn't squeeze it down to 10 LOL!...
 
1. Everything is Illuminated
2. White Oleander
3. The Golden Compass
4. The Subtle Knife
5. The Amber Spyglass
6. The Historian
7. Anna Karenina
8. Dune
9. Freakonomics
10. Po-on

This is in no particular order. Oh! Plus Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and Cryptonomicon.
 
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