Our awesome ML, Trilli, asked me to post a new topic and ask all of you WriMo's to please post to this thread (you could also send me a nano mail or bring it with you to the prep party on Saturday), your list of favorite books. Please remember to list the authors that wrote those books. Your list of 'favs' can be books on writing, those books that inspire you, the books you read when you don't want to write, and any other books you want to recommend to your fellow WriMo's.
I would ask, pretty please, that you list your books by genre/topic (to make it easier for the project I've been asked to do for later).
Thanks!
Zabrina
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Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Blue Moon Rising -- Simon R Green
Conquerer's Saga Trilogy -- Timothy Zahn
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
The Hobbit -- JRR Tolkien
Religion & Spirituality
The Cross and the Switchblade -- David Wilkerson
----------The Holy Bible -- King James Version
The Prayer of Jabez -- Bruce Wilkinson
Nonfiction
Guns Save Lives: True Stories... -- Robert A. Waters
Rich Dad, Poor Dad -- Robert Kiyosaki
A Whole New Mind -- Daniel Pink
Writing 101 -- Claudia Sorsby
Need help? Get a lesson from Uncle Orson
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Military:
Patriots: A Novel Of Survival In The Coming Collapse (James Wesley Rawles)
Patriot Games (Tom Clancy)
Fantasy/Sci-Fi:
Pendragon Series (D.J. MacHale)
Infected (Scott Sigler)
7th Son Trilogy (J.C. Hutchins)
Zombie Survival Guide (Max Brooks)
World War Z (Max Brooks)
Artemis Fowl Series (Eoin Colfer)
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Oct 25, 2009 - 17 39
I suppose the below is just an abbreviated list really. I've mostly listed the ones that I've been looking recently
Durante degli Alighieri [Dante]
-Divina Commedia [The Divine Comedy]
Lewis Carroll
-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
-Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
Stanisław Lem
-Solaris
Robert A. Heinlein
-The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
-Time Enough for Love
-Stranger in a Strange Land
Kenzaburō Ōe
-静かな生活 [A Quiet Life]
-M/Tと森のフシギの物語 [M/T and the Narrative About the Marvels of the Forest]
Kyoichi Katayama
-世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ [Socrates in Love -> Literally: Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World]
Haruki Murakami
-世界の終わりとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド [Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World]
-アフターダーク [After Dark]
Role-Playing Game Guidebooks
----------Dungeons and Dragons: versions 3, 3.5, and 4
Burning Empires
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
-Oscar Wilde
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Oct 26, 2009 - 01 18
Anything by James Rollins, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child or Michael Crichton. They're all thriller authors I think.
Wedding Planner Mystery Series by Deborah Donnelly and Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, both Romance (well sorta)
Laurie R. Kings Sherlock Holmes Series
Beekeepers Apprentice
Justice Hall
The Game
Oh! Jerusulum
So many more but those are my absolute favorites.
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Oct 26, 2009 - 03 42
hm, favorite books is always a toughie for me. but let's see ...
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by jonathan safran foer
the Underworld, by don delillo
Book of Illusions, by paul auster
the Human Stain, by philip roth
Norwegian Wood, by haruki murakami
i don't really read genre stuff, sorry (so i tend to feel a bit like an outsider at local nano functions), though i am reading stephen king right now (stories: Just After Sunset) and a marge piercy sci-fi novel (Woman on the Edge of Time).
i'm also reading a nonfiction book about how americans' conceptions of death altered during the civil war, a book called This Republic of Suffering.
a few weeks ago i read a new novel called Beat the Reaper (the blubs called it "House meets the Sopranos," and it fit), which had the single most stomach churning violent scene i believe i have ever read.
alex
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Oct 27, 2009 - 01 05
favorite books on writing:
How to write Scoence Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
So you want to write a novel by Lou Willett Stanek, PhD
Writing down the bones by Natalie Goldberg
reading books:
Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
Friday by Robert Heinlein.
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Arena by Karen Hancock
Firebird trillogy by Kathy Tyers
really there are too many to list. but it's a start.
----------Trilli
ML for Tacoma/Pierce County Region
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Oct 27, 2009 - 10 15
Hmmm... favorite books. That's a tough one. My memory can be quite the sieve for titles, but here's a few:
Writing How-To Books
Story Structure Architect
No Plot No Problem
Fiction
Anything Austin (hooked since I was 10)
Most things Oscar Wilde (started when I ran out of the fore mentioned)
Stormy Weather- Paulette Jiles
The Little White Bird- Barrie
Llttle Women- Alcott
Bronte sisters works
Love in the Time of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Go Ask Alice
Speak
Non Fiction
Letters to a Young Poet- Rainier Rilke
India's Love Lyrics- Laurence Hope
The Slippery Year- Melanie Gideon
Byron, Longfellow, Plath, Pope, etc... etc...
I'm sure I've left out many. Oh well, that's a good start.
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On writing:
Strunk and White (of course)
Aspects of the Novel - E.M. Forster
On Writing - Stephen King
Zen in the Art of Writing - Ray Bradbury
SF/F:
The Pastel City - M. John Harrison
More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
Prince Ombra - Roderick MacLeish
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Mystery/Crime:
The Bone Collector - Jeffrey Deaver
Fer-de-lance - Rex Stout
A Deadly Shade of Gold - John D. MacDonald
Ice - Ed McBain
"Literary":
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
There Should Have Been Castles - Herman Raucher
Lamb - Christopher Moore
Plainsong - Kent Haruf
Non-Fiction:
A Night to Remember - Walter Lord
----------The Civil War: A Narrative - Shelby Foote
Issac's Storm - Eric Larson
Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
-CMS
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Oct 30, 2009 - 09 44
There are just so many great ones it's hard to narrow it down
Fiction:
The Wolf Of Masada - John Fredman
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart
Anything by Bernard Cornwell
Non-Fiction
On War - Carl Von Clausewitz
The Prince - Machiavelli
A History of the English Speaking People- Winston Churchill
A Story of Civilization - Will/Ariel Durant
Inspirational/Spiritual
The Prophet - Gibran
The Consolation of Philosophy - Boetheus
Siddharta - Hesse
Leaves of Grass - Whitman
The Four Agreements - Ruiz
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Okay here is a truncated list; I have read so many and have so many favorites that it would be hard to list them all.
Writing Books:
Bird by Bird Anne Lamot
On Writing Stephen King
Writing for the Soul Jerry Jenkins
NonFiction
Common Sense 101 Dale Ahlquist
The Life You Save May Be Your Own Paul Elie
Fiction
The Left Behind Series Jerry Jenkins and Timothy LeHaye
Dragons In Our Midst and Oracles of Fire series Bryan Davis
Lord of the Rings Trilogy JRR Tolkein
Narnia series C.S. Lewis
Legend of the Seeker series Terry Goodkind
There's my short list, I'm sure I could put a hundred more on there, but this will just have to do for now.
Go NANO's
Chris (angelsformymuse)
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