Thanks, Bottle of Shine, for hosting 342,745 Ways To Herd Cats, which was really a fun idea for a challenge! I’m going to call this challenge complete, though I really do hope to read the last two books on this list (we only had to read three total) before it ends officially. I enjoyed The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Dracula the most and Oryx and Crake the least.
Here are the books I read, followed by the ones I recommended:
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Dewey) (Alison)
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Dewey)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (This Red Head Reads)
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Jazz Machine) (Framed)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Rhinoa) (Day Dream Muse) (Just a Reading Fool)
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (Just Add Books)
- Dracula by Bram Stoker (Corinne) (DayDreamMuse)
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (Bellezza)
- The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver (Corinne) (Blue Bicycle) (Daphne) (Joy)
The ones I recommended:
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Nicholas & Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
The book which continues to haunt me is The Life of Pi. Over and over I hear people talk about it, love it, review it, read it…I started it once, years ago, and I couldn’t bear it! It’s one of the few I’ve abandoned (along with The Red Tent). Now, I feel I should pick it up again. Like I’m missing out on something not having read it.
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