Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Other suggestions.

This post will be a list of books that I have read and really enjoyed some more then others but at least enough that if asked for suggestions I would recommend them.  I have tried to categorize them but probably could have done a better job.  And once again they aren't in any particular order.

Kids or jr. fiction

Crowfield curse - Pat Walsh
Stolen - Vivian Vande Velde
Crossroads and The hanging hill (series) - Chris Grabenstein
Maniac Mcgee - Jerry Spinelli
Peter and the starcatchers series - Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson


Youth Fiction

Red Riding Hood - Sarah Blakeley-Cartwright
Lost - Jacqueline Davies
Green Angel and Green Witch (series) - Alice Hoffman
Monstrumologist (series) - Richard Yancey
I am David - Anne Holm
Rotters - Daniel Kraus
Virtue - Amanda Hocking
Hollowland (series) - Amanda Hocking
Switched (series) - Amanda Hocking


Mystery

Mistress of the art of death (series) - Ariana Franklin
Bonemans daughter - Ted Dekker
Awakening - SJ Bolton
Blood Harvest - SJ Bolton
The Preacher - Camilla Lackberg
Dead Path - Stephen M Irwin


Historical Fiction

The countess and the King - Susan Hollaway Scott
(the countess of Dorchester and King James II)

Agnes Prine series - Nancy E Turner
(These is my words, Sarah's quilt, Garden star)

The Devils queen - Jeanne Kalogridis
(Catherine de Medici)

Hugh and Bess - Susan Higgonbotham
(story of Hugh le Despenser and Bess de Montacute)

Mistress of Nothing - Kate Pullinger
(story of Sally Naldrett, ladies maid to victorian author Lucie Duff Gordon)

Raven's Bride - Lenore Hart
(Virginia Clemm cousin and wife of Edgar Allen Poe)

Half broke horses - Jeanette Walls
The Bells - Richard Harvell
Follow the River - James Alexander Thom
Alice I have been - Melanie Benjamin
The diary of Mattie Spencer - Sandra Dallas
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The true story of Hansel and Gretel - Louise Murphy
The zookeepers wife - Diane Ackerman
The hiding place - Corrie Ten Boom
Night - Elie Wiesel

Other fiction
Anthem - Ayn Rand
The road - Cormac McCarthy
The travelers gift - Andy Andrews
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
A discovery of witches - Deborah Harkness
Wolves among us - Ginger Garrett
The reapers are the angels - Alden Bell
The physick book of Deliverance Dane - Katherine Howe
Blood and ice - Roert Masello
Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton Porter
Warm bodies - Isaac Marion
Forgotten garden - Kate Morton

That turned out to be a little lengthier then I thought.  I am hoping in the next couple of days to get both of the kids to come up with a list of their favorite books for me to post. 












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