Post by Dominique on Jul 15, 2007 5:53:17 GMT -5
Ok sorry this is not very neat, but this is the list I have so far for the contemporary section. I thought I would post it up in case anything wants to suggest anything additional (as more contemporary stuff pops up all the time)
contemporary
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
All God's Children Need Walking Shoes by Maya Angelou
The Blind Assasin by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Scarecrow of Oz L Frank Baum
Forgotten Fire: Adam Bagdasarian
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Linda Berdoll
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
March by Geraldine Brooks
-Distant Land of My Father: Bo Caldwell
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey
Postcards from No Man's Land: Aidan Chambers
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Middlesex-Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides
Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Memoirs of a geisha- Arthur Golden
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
A Painted House, John Grisham
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
"Snow Falling on Cedars" by David Guterson
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
Venetia - Georgette Heyer
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
the kite runner--Khaled Hosseini
The Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki
The secret life of bees -Sue Monk Kidd
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
The Historian: Elizabeth Kostova
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The namesake- Jhumpa Lahiri
Confessions of an ugly stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
So Many Books, So Little Time, Sara Nelson
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Fear and Trembling, Amélie Nothomb
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
My sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elizabeth Robinson
Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Idlewild: Nick Sagan
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaetan Soucy, 1998
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
The Snow Flower and The Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
The Electric Cool-Aid Test by Tom Wolfe
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
The shadow of the wind- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
contemporary
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
All God's Children Need Walking Shoes by Maya Angelou
The Blind Assasin by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Scarecrow of Oz L Frank Baum
Forgotten Fire: Adam Bagdasarian
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Linda Berdoll
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
March by Geraldine Brooks
-Distant Land of My Father: Bo Caldwell
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey
Postcards from No Man's Land: Aidan Chambers
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Middlesex-Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides
Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Memoirs of a geisha- Arthur Golden
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
A Painted House, John Grisham
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
"Snow Falling on Cedars" by David Guterson
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
Venetia - Georgette Heyer
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
the kite runner--Khaled Hosseini
The Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki
The secret life of bees -Sue Monk Kidd
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
The Historian: Elizabeth Kostova
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The namesake- Jhumpa Lahiri
Confessions of an ugly stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
So Many Books, So Little Time, Sara Nelson
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Fear and Trembling, Amélie Nothomb
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
My sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elizabeth Robinson
Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Idlewild: Nick Sagan
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaetan Soucy, 1998
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
The Snow Flower and The Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
The Electric Cool-Aid Test by Tom Wolfe
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
The shadow of the wind- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak