I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ~ E. M. Forster

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Looking back....

It's been a few years since we started reading together, so I thought I'd post a list of the books we've read. Some of you have been reading with us from the beginning and will remember these, others can see what we read before you joined us. We've read some very memorable books (for various reasons) and some you might not even remember what you've read. After you look the list over, feel free to comment on some of your favorites, or most memorable books.

The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing                                       
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
No Place Like Home - Mary Higgins Clark                     
Bee Season - Maya Goldberg
Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown                                       
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - Berendt
Flag of Our Fathers -  James Bradley                            
Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger             
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
We're Just Like You Only Prettier - Rivenbark              
Marley & Me - John Grogan
Choke - Chuck Palahnuik                                              
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
The Historian - Elisabeth Kostova                                 
For One More Day - Mitch Albom
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini                                
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel G. Marquez
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen                                  
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime - Mark Hadden
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee                               
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf                           
1776 - David McCullough
The Madonna's of Leningrad - Debra Dean                  
Coleridge
White Shadow - Ace Atkins                                           
I, Mona Lisa - Jeanne Kalogridis
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut                             
The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
Snow Falling On Cedars - David Guterson                      
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
The Outside World - Tova Mirvis                                     
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah                                  
Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Ann Burns
A Light in August - William Faulkner                                 
A Severe Mercy - Sheldon Vanauken
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See                  
Digging to America - Anne Tyler
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde                       
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
Startling Joy - James Calvin Schaap                                 
Joshua - A Parable for Today - Joseph Girzone
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath                                                  
Night - Elie Wiesel
Dew Breaker - Edwidge Danticat                                       
The Shack - William P. Young
Me, Myself, and Bob - Phil Vischer                                  
Sickened - Julie Gregory
Same Kind of Different - Ron Hall, Denver Moore            
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Push - Sapphire                                                                
Do You Think I'm Beautiful - Angela Thomas
Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein                                     
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
The Book of Air and Shadows - Michael Gruber                
The Milagro Beanfield War - John Nichols
Oogy - Larry Levin

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love

Here's our next book.  Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love - By Larry Levin. It's a newer book, so waiting for a copy from the library might take a while. Happy reading!