This is a very incomplete list of all the books I want to read in 2005. I discovered most of these while browsing through Barnes and Noble or while blogging.
#1 Ladies Detective Agency—Smith
Michaelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling—King
Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life–Medved
The Household Book of Lady Grizel Baillie, 1692-1733
Nectarina Sieve—Markandaya
Please Stop Laughing At Me—Blanco
Another Place at the Table—Harrison
Rating the First Ladies—Johnson
The Disappearing Duke—Freeman-Keel
Dangerous Diplomacy—Mowbray
Prophetic Untimeliness—Guinness
The Power of the Powerless—De Vinck
After the Ball—Beard
The Mystic Rose—Lawhead
The Recreations of a Country Parson–Boyd
Tathea—Perry.
Chasing Hepburn—Lee
The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio–Ryan
The Great Fortune, The Spoilt City, Friends and Heroes—Olivia Manning
Empires of Light : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World –Jonnes
Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age—Schultz
Cold Mountain—Frazier
Eragon—Paolini
The Canterbury Papers—Healey
Sailing the Wine Dark Sea—Why the Greeks Matter—Cahill
Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity—Gold
This Vast Land—Ambrose
Armey’s Axioms—Armey
The God I Love—Tada
Game of Kings—Dunnett
Wild Strawberries—Thirkell
Tenant of Wildfell Hall—Ann Bronte
John Halifax, Gentleman—Dinah Mulock Craik
Miss Marjoribanks–Margaret Oliphant
Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation that’s Changing Your World–Hewitt
Total Truth–Nancy Pearcy I got this one for Christmas.
Shepherds Abiding–Karon Another Christmas present.
Don Quixote–Cervantes Yes, we are going to read the whole thing this year.
In the Heart of the Sea–Philbrick
To the Last Mind–Shaara
Light Force–Janssen
Mad Mary Lamb–Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Dragon Rider-Funke
Airborn–Oppel
Beyond Statliest Marble: The Passionate Feminity of Anne Bradstreet–Wilson
Call of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee–Wilkins
Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography–Murray
Forgotten Founding Father: The Heroic Legacy of George Whitfield–Mansfield
Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry–Vaughan
So, are there any books I should add to the list? Any I should remove (not worth the time)? Does anybody recommend I start with one particular book? I notice that there’s not too much fiction on this list, and I like fiction. Can anyone recommend anything that I might like? (I don’t enjoy too much twentieth century fiction, unfortunately, other than fantasy, some YA fiction, and mysteries.)
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Would you like to read that book about John Adams, by, is it David McCollough?
Interesting book list. . . Are these books you have, or do you have to buy them/find them at the library?
I’ve discovered that I enjoy modern Japanese lit. You may want to look into Murakami or Banana Yoshimoto. Both are a tad post-modern, but quite interesting.
No, I don’t own most of these. Libraries are a blessing, aren’t they?
_Time Lottery_ by Nancy Moser
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1586605879/qid=1104340526/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-9212766-1683157
Best grown up book I read this year was Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand, 2001 http://bookmoot.blogspot.com/2004/09/seabiscuit-race-horse-1930-1940.html
Eragon is good but you have to keep plugging in the beginning, it takes a while but then it grabs you. Interesting to see if he can keep it up in the next one.
I don’t know what I expected in #1 Ladies Detective Agency—Smith but I was underwhelmed, probably just me. The ending of Cold Mountain just made me mad.
I’m going to try to make it through Don Quixote this year also. Do you have the new translation? I don’t, and I’m wondering if I should try that one. I also want to read Pilgrim’s Progress. Oh, and I haven’t read all of Jane Austen’s books, so I have Emma and Northanger Abbey on my list to finish her. Modern fiction? I keep hearing about The Secret Life of Bees and The Handmaid’s Tale.
You may have read all of these, but that’s what’s on my list.
One more thing. I have read Shepherd’s Abiding. It’s good. I listened to it on CD while traveling back and forth while my father was in the hospital two states away. Very soothing, and perfect for such a stressful time.
Eragon is one of the best books I have ever read. It is awesome and thriling. The boy who wrote it has a lot of insight on sword fighting and stuff. If you like the Lord of the Rings then you might like it, you might not. You might say that it was done very well. But then you might say that he was trying to copy it. There are elves and what is probably Orc relatives. There is a character somewhat like Saruman and some like the Nazgul. But it is still very good. A must read. And tell Christopher I feel sorry for him about the license. I will be getting mine soon and it a lot easier here.
I would recommend anything by John Piper. I am now reading When I Don’t Desire God. It is excellent. I have read several of his books and have not found a bad one. For fiction, one of my favorite authors is Harlan Coben (but only his latest ones). Of course, it is contemporary fiction, but knowing that you like mysteries, I think you might like this author. The books are real page-turners. They kept me up late several nights.