"Something About Me" Reading Challenge: Leslie's Picks

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Leslie's Picks

Here are the books I'm going to read:
Cheaper by the Dozen (Raidergirl3's List)
Good Grief (Chasida's List)
Uglies (Faith's List)
We Need to talk about Kevin (Dewey's List)
84, Charing Cross Road (Historia's List)
Time Traveler's Wife (HeatherBird's List)
Christy (HeatherBird's List)
Operating Instructions (Nattie's List)

Very excited!!

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BOOKS TO CHOOSE FROM

Holly's List
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (F)
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (F)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Poet)
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (JuvF)
Six Memos for the Next Millenium by Italo Calvino (NF)
HeatherBird's List
Christy by Catherine Marshall (F)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling (F)
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (F)
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (JuvF)
Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan (JuvF)
Julie's List
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler (JuvF)
The Dogs Who Found Me by Ken Foster (NF)
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall (F)
The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (JuvF)
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farm (JuvF)
Andrea's List
Long Quiet Highway by Natalie Goldberg (NF)
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner (F)
Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston (F)
Expecting Adam by Martha Beck (NF)
The Thornbirds by Colleen McCullough (F)
Gracie's List
Persuasion by Jane Austen (F)
Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks (NF)
Beowulf trans. by Seamus Heaney (Poet)
Time and Again by Jack Finney (F)
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery (JuvF)
Karlene's List
Dune by Frank Herbert (F)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (F)
Saints/Woman of Destiny by Orson Scott Card (F)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (F)
Harriet the Spy by Loise Fitzhugh (F)
Historia's List
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (NF)
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Baigent, Leigh, Lincoln (NF)
Runaway Jury by John Grisham (F)
Sahara or Treasure by Clive Cussler (F)
I Am Spock and I Am Not Spock by Leonard Nimoy (NF)
Juli's List
Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O'Dell (JuvF)
The Talisman by Steven King & Peter Straub (F)
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley (NF)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (F)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle (JuvF)
Trish's List
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (F)
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (F)
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery (F)
Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding (F)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (F)
EnnaVic's List
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery (F)
Three Men In a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (NF)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (F)
Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King (NF)
Baden-Powell by Tim Jeal (NF)
Valentina's List
The Never Ending Story by Michael Ende (F)
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (F)
Fairies: Real Encounters with Little People by Janet Bard (NF)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (F)
A Tiger in the Well by Philip Pullman (F)
Alyson's List
The Archivist's Story by Travis Holland (F)
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (F)
Great Books by David Denby (NF)
The Iliad by Homer (F)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (F)
Faith's List
Grimm's Grimmest by Brothers Grimm (F)
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (F)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (F)
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (F)
Adopted Jane by Helen Fern Daringer (JuvF)
Janet's List
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (F)
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (JuvF)
Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg (F)
Rumors of Peace by Ella Leffland (F)
My Last Days as Roy Rogers by Pat Cunningham DeVoto (F)
Lucca's List
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (F)
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (F)
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (F)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishigiro (F)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (F)
SheReads (Diane)'s List
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (JuvF)
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (JuvF)
Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock (JuvF)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (F)
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (JuvF)
Beachreader's List
The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton (F)
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris (NF)
Folly by Laurie King (F)
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (NF)
Sea Glass by Anita Shreve (F)
Library Lady's List
Sea Glass by Anita Shreve (F)
Nantucket Nights by Erin Hilderbrand (F)
The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg (F)
An Inconvenient Wife by Megan Chance (F)
Feline Mystique by Cleo Simon (NF)
Sarah Miller's List
Zel by Donna Jo Napolilt (F)
The Red Tent by Anita Diamante (F)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (F)
The View from Saturday by EL Konigsburg (JuvF)
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum (NF)
Soleil's List
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Poe.)
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler (NF)
I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles (NF)
Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block (F)
Le Petit Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery (JuvF)
Booklogged's List
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (JuvF)
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate diCamillo (JuvF)
From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz (F)
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis (F?)
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading by Maureen Corrigan (NF)
JMC's List
Beach Music by Pat Conroy (F)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (F)
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz (F)
The Redhead Handbook (NF)
Stick Kid by Peter Holwitz (JuvF)
Chasida's List
Beach Music by Pat Conroy (F)
Chocolat by Joanne Harris (F)
Good Grief by Lolly Winston (F)
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (F)
The World According to Garp by John Irving (F)
Becky's List
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (JuvF)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (F)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (F)
Anne of the Islands by L M Montgomery (F)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (F)
Kelly's List
The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards (F)
Seeing by Jose Saramago (F)
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (NF)
Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman (F)
A Transplanted Yooper by Tina Lonski (NF)
Judith's List
The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup (NF)
Postsecret by Frank Warren (NF)
Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich (NF)
Because it is Bitter and Because it is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates (F)
The End of Faith by Sam Harris (NF)
Margo's List
Chocolat by Joanne Harris (F)
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews (F)
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory (F)
The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella (F)
Shrine by James Herbert (F)
Jill's List
The March by E.L. Doctorow (F)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (NF)
I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak (F)
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris (F)
Christ the Lord by Anne Rice (F)
alisonwonderland's List
Girl from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (NF)
All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor (JuvF)
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (YA)
Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix (F)
Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker (F)
Rhinoa's List
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (F)
The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop (F)
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice (F)
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (F)
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien (F)
Kathrin's List
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (F)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (F)
To Be A Jew by Rabbi Hayim Halevi Donin (NF)
Can You Keep A Secret by Sophie Kinsella (F)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling (F)
Vasilly's List
Blindness by Jose Saramago (F)
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott (NF)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (F)
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson (NF)
Living Judaism by Rabbi Wayne Dosick (NF)
Bookworm's List
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (F)
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (F)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (F)
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (F)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling (F)
Dewey's List
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (F)
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (F)
The World According to Garp by John Irving (F)
March by Geraldine Brooks (F)
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle (F)
Tiny Librarian's List
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik (F)
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (F)
Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding (F)
The Gallery of Regrettable Food by James Lileks (NF)
Lucy Crocker 2.0 by Caroline Preston (F)
A Book in the Life's List
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (F)
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (F)
So Many Books, So Little Time (NF)
The Stand by Stephen King (F)
Educating Esme by Esme Raji Codell (NF)
Athena's List
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (Juv.F)
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maughan (F)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (F)
A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain (NF)
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby (NF)
Kristin's List
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (F)
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie (NF)
Coming to Term: Uncovering the truth about Miscarriage by Jon Cohen (NF)
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (F)
Citizen Vince by Jess Walter (F)
Maryanne's List
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (F)
The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago (F)
How to Walk in High Heels by Camilla Morton (NF)
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostava (F)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (F)
Stephanie's List
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (NF)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin (F)
Oh My Goth by Gena Showalter (F)
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (F)
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (F)
Suey's List
The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (F)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (F)
Papa Married a Mormon by John D. Fitzgerald (NF)
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud (JuvF)
Megan's List
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (NF)
Boys and Girls Forever by Alison Lurie (NF)
Nothing But the Truth by Avi (Juv.F)
The Black Book: Diary of a Teenage Stud by Jonah Black (Juv.F)
The Country of Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett (F)
Nattie's List
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel (NF)
Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins (NF)
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler (F)
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott (NF)
Fool's Puzzle by Earlene Fowler (Mys)
Ellen's List
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (F)
Nothing but the Best by Judith Kogan (NF)
No Coins, Please by Gordan Korman (Juv.F)
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (F)
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Play)
Heather's List
Lolita by Vladmir Nobokov (F)
Everybody Wants to go to Heaven But Nobody Wants to Die by David Crwoder/Mike Hogan (NF)
Seven Blessings by Ruchama King (F)
Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult (F)
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (F)
Lynne's List
Marley and Me by John Grogan (NF)
When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us by Jane Adams, Ph.D. (NF)
Ida Mae Tutweiler and the Traveling Tea Party by Ginnie Siena Bivona (F)
Down the Jersey Shore by Russell Roberts/Richard Youmans (NF)
Close to Shore by Michael Capuzzo (NF)
Pattie's List
Fresh Brewed Life by Nichole Johnson (Chr.NF)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (F)
SAHM I Am by Meredith Efken (Chr.F)
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl (NF)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (F)
Raidergirl3's List
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (NF)
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth (NF)
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman (F)
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy (F)
Anne of Windy Poplars by LM Montgomery (F)
3M's List
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland (F)
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (NF)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (F)
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers (F)
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (JuvF)
Think Pink Dana's List
The Five Gifts of Illness by Jill Sklar (NF)
The Talisman by Stephen King (F)
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott (NF)
The Essays of E.B. White (NF)
Dispatches from the Land of Flowers by Jeff Klinkenberg (NF)
Christina's List
Parenting your Only Child by Susan Newman (NF)
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (F)
The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes (NF)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (F)
In the Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (F)
Kookiejar's List
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (F)
Raptor Red by Robert Baaker (F)
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo (F)
Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan (NF)
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut (NF)
Heidijane's List
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Wall Jumper by Peter Schneider and Ian McEwan (F)
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (Mys)
Heidi by Johanna Spyri (Juv.F)
Wendy's List
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving (F)
Place Last Seen by Charlotte McGuinn (F)
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (NF)
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall (NF)
The Borrowers by Mary Norton (Juv.F)
Sally's List
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson (NF)
Grumpy Old Women by Judith Holder (NF)
Hazel's Journey by Sue Peters-Hawke (NF)
My Desert Kingdom by Jill Koolmees (NF)
The Naughtiest Girl in School by Enid Blyton (Juv.F)
Twiga's List
The Happy Room by Catherine Palmer
The Childless Revolution: What it Means to be Childless Today by Madelyn Cain
Making Work Work for the Highly Sensitive Person by Barrie Jaeger (NF)
The Atonement Child by Francine Rivers (F)
Biblioholism by Tom Raabe (NF)
Bonnie's List
Evensong by Gail Godwin (F)
On Tap by J. Frances Alexander (F)
Booked to Die by John Dunning (Mys)
Go Out in Joy! by Nina Hermann Donnelley (NF)
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd (NF)
Lisa's List
Living your Yoga by Judith Lasater (NF)
Lying on the Couch by Irvin Yalom (F)
Tracon by Paul McElroy (F)
The Gate Seldom Found by Raymond Reid (NF)
The Man with the Beautiful Voice by Lillian Rubin (NF)
Holly's List
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (F)
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (F)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Poet)
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (JuvF)
Six Memos for the Next Millenium by Italo Calvino (NF)