Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Previously Suggested (and Rejected) Books

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann 541 pages (October 10, 2006)  4 in Library $$ Video 4.03

(F) 1984 by George Orwell 328 pages (July 1, 1950) $$ 9 in Library 4.25

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman 4.08

(F) A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 603 pages (2001)  3 in Library 4.33

(F) A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor  276 pages (August 23, 1977) 2 in LibraryAudio 4.27


(F) A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry 336 pages (November 30, 1966) $$ 2 in Library 4.32

(F) A Room With a View by E. M. Forster 240 pages (January 2, 2005) $$   4 in Library 3.91

(F) The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler 352 pages 3 in Library 3.89

Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges 608 pages (2000) $$$ 1 in Library 3.95


(F) All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky 272 pages (September 6, 2011) 1 in Library $ Video 3.82



(F) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 639 pages $$ 3 in Library  4.17

America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union by Fergus M. Bordewich 496 pages (April 17, 2012) 0 in Library $$ Video

(F) American War by Omar El Akkad 384 pages $$ 4 in Library 3.79


American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow 416 pages (2012) $$$ 1 in Library 4.06

American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World by David Baron 4.16 $$$$ 1 in Library 4.16

Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder 352 pages (September 1990) $ 0 in Library 3.87

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal 615 pages $$$$ 1 in Library 4.44





(F) The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin 417 pages 5 in Library 3.87

Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause by Tom Gjelten 413 pages (September 4, 2008)  1 in Library $$ Video 3.94

(F) The Beach by Alex Garland 436 pages $ 2 in Library 3.91

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein 688 pages (2002) $ 1 in Library 4.29

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo 256 pages $ 3 in Library 3.97


(F) Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie 465 pages (2012) $$ 2 in Library 4.15



Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall 304 pages (March 29, 2011) 3 in Library $$ Video 4.30


Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse by Eric Jay Dolin 560 pages $$$ 2 in Library 4.09

(F) Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel 432 pages  (May 8, 2012) 5 in Library $$ Video 4.28

(F) The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton, Marion Mainwaring 406 pages $ 4 in Library 3.85

(F) Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann 731 pages (1994) $ 0 in Library 4.13


Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama 976 pages (October 1990) $ 2 in Library 3.98

Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay 448 pages (December 30, 2003) 1 in Library $$ 3.81

Come, Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie Mallowan 207 pages (2002) $ 2 in Library 4.18

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson 352 pages (October 2, 2012) 1 in Library $$$ Video 3.68

(F) Contact by Carl Sagan 432 pages (1997) $ 4 in Library 4.05


(F) Different Seasons by Stephen King 560 pages $$$ 2 in Library 4.34

(F) Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler 303 pages (1996) $ 2 in Library 3.81

The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande 336 pages (2012) $$ 12 in Library 4.14



(F) Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 592 pages (1997) $ 5 copies in Library 4.03


Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon 560 pages (2009) $$ 1 in Library 4.02



(F) Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess 649 pages (May 2004) $$$ 0 in Library 4.16

(F) East of Eden by John Steinbeck 640 pages (1992) $ 5 in Library 4.32


Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner 537 pages (2013) $$ 2 in Library 3.86

(F) English Passengers by Matthew Kneale 446 pages (2000) $ 2 in Library 4.06

Equiano The African by Vincent Carretta 464 pages (2007) $ 1 in Library 3.56

Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and their Epic Escape Across the Pacific by Bill Lascher 408 pages $$ 2 in Library 3.91



(F) Excellent Women by Barbara Pym 256 pages  (December 26, 2006) 1 in Library $$$ Video 3.94

(F) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid 231 pages $$$$ 2 in Library 3.85


(F) The Fall: A Novel by Simon Mawer 400 pages (February 9, 2004) 1 in Library $ 3.82

The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South by Bruce Levine 464 pages (2013) $$ 1 in Library 4.02



(F) Flight Behavior: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver 464 pages (November 6, 2012) 15 in Library $$$ Video 3.76

(F) Forty Stories by Anton Chekhov 384 pages (1991) $$ 2 in Library 4.32

Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf 352 pages (2011) $ 1 in Library 3.96


(F) The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West 228 pages (1945) $ 3 in Library 3.91

The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency by Kathryn Smith 352 pages $$ 1 in Library 3.84

The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War by H.W. Brands 416 pages $$$ 1 in Library 4.14

The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman 352 pages $$$ 1 in Library 4.03

Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans by John M. Marzluff, Tony Angell 304 pages (2012) $$ 1 in Library 3.79



(F) The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley 326 pages (2002) $ 1 in Library 3.90

(F) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 321 pages (August 31, 1999) $$ 4 in Library 3.87





(F) The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing 375 pages (1985) $ 1 in Library 3.67

(F) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 455 pages (January 8, 2002) $ 3 in Library 3.85

(F) The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing 272 pages (March 6, 2000) $$ 1 in Library 3.79


(F) The Great World by David Malouf 336 pages (1999) $ 1 in Library 3.90

(F) The Grifters by Jim Thompson 189 pages (1963)  $ 0 in Library 4.03


(F) The Houseguest by Agnes Rossi 304 pages (2000) $ 2 in Library 4.36

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer by Sarah Bakewell 387 pages (February 2010) $$ 0 in Library 4.07

(F) Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow 487 pages (1994) $ 1 in Library 3.84



(F) The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 667 pages (2003) $ 0 in Library 4.16

(F) 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami 925 pages (October 25, 2011) $$$ 2 in Library 4.05

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman 304 pages (2011) $$ 1 in Library 3.93

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf 496 pages $$$ 1 in Library  4.25

The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks 336 pages (January 12, 1998) 1 in Library  $ Video 3.88

(F) It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis 416 pages $$ 2 in Library 3.85


(F) The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov 384 pages  (November 26, 2002) 0 in Library $$ Video 4.09

Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent 480 pages (May 30, 2011) $$ 4 in Library 3.86

Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine 256 pages (October 13, 1992) 1 in Library $ Video 4.30

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans 432 pages (April 1, 2008) 3 in Library  $$ 4.18

Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton N. Cohen 612 pages (1996) $$ 2 in Library 3.84

Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman 288 pages $$$$ 1 in Library 3.94 

(F) Lincoln: A Novel by Gore Vidal 672 pages $$ 2 in Library 4.19


(F) Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 343 pages $$$ 4 in Library 3.98


(F)  Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill 179 pages 3 in Library 4.06




Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel 707 pages (2011) $ 0 in Library 4.16

(F) The Light Between Oceans: A Novel by M. L. Stedman 352 pages (2013 $$ 13 in Library 3,96




(F) The Martian by Andy Weir 387 pages (2014) $$ 3 in Library 4.36


Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick 480 pages (May 2006) $ 3 in Library 3.85

The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible by Simon Winchester 496 pages (October 2013) $$$$ 2 in Library 3.70

Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog by Ted Kerasote 398 pages (July 2, 2007)  $3 in Library 4.15

(F) The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka 224 pages (2003) $ 4 in Library  3.98

Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto 464 pages  $$ 2 in Library 4.33

(F) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 647 pages (1995) $$ 2 in Library (one electronic) 4.00

(F) Mildred Pierce  by James M. Cain  288 pages (1941)  $$  1 in Library 3.91

The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio by Andrea Mays 368 pages $ 1 in Library 3.96



The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel 473 pages (2009) $$$ 5 in Library 3.80





Mortality by Christopher Hitchens 128 pages (2014)  $$ 2 in Library 4.09



Mortality by Christopher Hitchens 128 pages (2014)  $$ 2 in Library 4.09


My European Family: The First 54,000 Years by Karin Bojs 400 pages $$$$ 1 in Library 4.00

My Father's Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn 288 pages (2011) $ 1 in Library 3.87

My Life With Bob by Pamela Paul 256 pages $$$$ 2 in library 3.76



(F) My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer 277 pages (2005) $ 2 in Library 3.60

(F) The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco and Geoffrey Brock 480 pages  (June 5, 2006) 1 in Library $ Video 3.28

(F) Nana by Emile Zola 484 pages (July 26, 1973)  $ 2 in Library 3.84

Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba 370 pages (November 13, 2012) $$$ 0 in Library 3.74



Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover 352 pages (June 12, 2001) $ 0 in Library 3.95


(F) Old Filth by Jane Gardam 290 pages (2004) $$ 2 in Library 3.94

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane 432 pages  $$ 2 in Library 4.11

(F) On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry 256 pages (August 4, 2011) $$ 1 in Library  3.81

One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson 528 pages (October 1, 2013) $$$$ 6 in Library 4.09



One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus 464 pages (1999) $ 7 in Library  3.86

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen 592 pages (2014) $$$ 2 in Library 3.86



Or I'll Dress You in Mourning by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre 350 pages (1968) $ 0 in Library 4.33



The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw 896 pages (November 2012) 2 in Library 4.03

(F) Persuasion by Jane Austen 249 pages (2004) $ 7 in Library 4.12




(F)  The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver 576 pages (June 10, 2008)  5 in Library $ Video 3.94



(F) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 346 pages (April 12, 1995) 5 in Library $ Video 4.23

(F) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 150 pages (1961) $$ 2 in Library 3.76


(F) The Princess Bride by William Goldman 398 pages (2003) $ 5 in Library 4.24



Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools by Diane Ravitch 396 pages (September 2013)  $$$$ 0 in Library 4.25


(F) Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vásquez 193 pages $$ 1 in Library 3.71

The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox 363 pages (May 2013) $$$ 1 in Library 3.91

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry 524 pages (April 1998) $ 2 in Library 4.19

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit 320 pages (March 20, 2004) $$ 1 in Library 4.14

(F) The Road Home by Rose Tremain 320 pages (2007) $ 1 in Library 3.85 





Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 399 pages  (March 26, 2002) 7 in Library $ Video 4.12

 4.45

Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard 432 pages (April 30, 2013) 0 in Library  $$$$$ 3.64

Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne 496 pages (April 13, 2004) $$ 1 in Library 3.85

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas G. Carr 280 pages (June 6, 2011) 2 in Library $$ Video 3.80



A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 560 pages (2004) $$ 5 in Library 4.17


(F) Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser 409 pages (1927) $ 6 in Library 3.67
Some Luck by Jane Smiley 395 pages (2014) $$$ 1 in Library 3.64

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition (1914-1917) by Sir Ernest Shackleton 448 pages (January 1, 2009) 1 in Library $ Video 4.23

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre 368 pages $ 1 in Library 4.10






Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson 318 pages (November 15, 1998)  2 in Library $  Video 3.83

(F) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 251 pages (2006) $$ 8 in Library 3.82

(F) Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, translated by Lydia Davis 463 pages (November 20, 2004) 1 in Library $$$$ 4.13

Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival by Maziar Bahari 384 pages (2011) $$ 0 in Library 4.14

(F) The Third Man by Graham Green 160 pages (November 1, 1999)  $ 1 in Library 3.86



Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher  312 pages (2010) $$ 1 in Library 3.83



Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett 560 pages (2010) $$ 2 in Library  4.08




Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy by Christopher L. Hayes 304 pages (October 12, 2012) $$$  1 in Library 4.05



(F) The U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos 1312 pages (1996) $$$ 2 in Library 4.08

(F) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel by Rachel Joyce 320 pages (July 24, 2012) 5 in Library $$ 3.91




The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff 512 pages  $$ 3 in Library  3.20

Wolf: The Lives of Jack London by James L. Haley 400 pages (2010) $ 1 in Library 3.80

(F) Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel 604 pages  (August 31, 2010) 4 in Library $$  Video 3.81

Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa by Farley Mowat 380 pages (October 1, 1988) $ 0 in Library 4.13



Library 4.21


The World Without Us by Alan Weisman 324 pages (July 10, 2007) $ 2 in Library  3.78

The XX Factor: How Working Women are Creating a New Society by Alison Wolf 416 pages (October 2013) $$  1 in Library 3.26


Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma 384 pages (October 2013) $$$ 2 in Library 3.86

34 comments:

  1. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories

    Anton Chekhov 136 pages

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    1. Added to the list -- some difference of opinion among publishers whether it's The Lady with the Dog or The Lady with the Little Dog.

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  2. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas hardy

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  3. I think women authors are underrepresented. Let's think of more to add.

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    1. 100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women from Feminista!
      http://www.thebookescape.com/Feminista.html

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  4. Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

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  5. The Mandarin

    Simone de Beauvoir

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  6. Germinal

    Emile Zola

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  7. The Bone People: A Novel by Keri Hulme and Pepa Heller

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  8. Mrs. Dalloway

    Virginia Woolf

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  9. The Casual Vacancy by Rowling, J.K (f)

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  10. The Warmth of Other Sons by Isabel Wilkerson

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    1. We read this book last year and enjoyed it immensely -- there have been suggestions that we might revisit books we've read previously but this one is too fresh in our memories.

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  11. The poisonwood Bible : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.

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  12. F-Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
    F-The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
    F-The Orphan Train by Christine Kline
    NF-Seabiscuit by Laura Hillebrand
    NF-The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese
    NF-Serving Victoria by Kate Hubbard

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  13. Son of Old Man Hat

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  14. My Antonia by Willa Cather

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  15. America's Great Debate by Fergus Bordewich

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  16. South - Ernest Shackleton

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  17. Island of the Colorblind-Oliver Sacks

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  18. "And the Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini

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