Tuesday, November 01, 2005

What the Readers are Reading: Part the Fourth

Here is the fourth entry in What The Readers are Reading, but it won't be the last. Yes, there are a few more to do, and I will get back to it soon. Once again, your lists include some of my favorite books and authors, but also introduce several that are completely unknown to me. What a prize.

Happy reading!


Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick

Audubon's Field Guide to the Pacific Northwest

The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century by Harry Turtledove (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)

Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

The Children's Homer by Padraic Colum

Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

City of God by Augustine

Confessions by Augustine

The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship with Recipes by Amanda Hesser

Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America by Amy Sutherland

Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design by Barbara Forrest, Paul R. Gross

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Discarded Image by C.S. Lewis

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Famous Men of Greece by John Haaren, A.B. Poland

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt

Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner

Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

The one down-side of reading this book is that my oldest child is now bugging us to move to a delapidated castle with a moat. She seemed less keen when I told her that she couldn't bring along the computer.

The Iliad of Homer

Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Miss Julia Throws a Wedding by Ann Ross

A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda

A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey by Brian McLaren

On a Night Like This by Ellen Sussman (novel set in S.F.)

Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie

Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education by James Taylor (why do I always hear, "Sweet Baby James" when I see this author? Nope, not that James Taylor!)

Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary

Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda (the first in a series.)

Saplings by Noel Streatfeild

"Before writing children's books, Streatfeild wrote a number of adult novels mostly written from a child's perspective. I am interested in reading about every-day life during war and this book is about the effect of evacuation and death on a close family unit in London during World War II. So far, it is engaging and well-written and I have trouble putting it down. The book was also published by my favourite London bookshop, Persephone, who specialise in little-known works by female authors from the last century."


The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb

St. Dale by Sharyn McCrumb

The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin (wonderful, wonderful nove)

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

To Kingdom Come by Will Thomas (mystery)

Very Good Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse

What Would Socrates Do?: History of Moral Thoughts and Ethics (Portable Professor Series) by Peter Kreeft

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill by Mark Bittner

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