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'Valient'-Holly Black-General Fantasy
'Ironside'-Holly Black-General Fantasy

'The Umbrella Academy'-Gerard Way-Graphic Novels

Reply 41

cambo211

Ape Gone Insane

QFA

Graphic Novels and Comics.

Alex Ross and Mark Waid. (1996)

One of DCs best comics and yet is unheard of to those who don't look into comics past the mainstream and film tie ins.

And it has amazing cover art

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Reply 42

FormerlyHistoryStudent

Original post by Ape Gone Insane

I have added back the Non-Fiction section for the time being. If it starts (in later weeks) to get too convoluted, I'll take it out and put it in its own thread.

You can post the Non-Fiction books you wanted to add if you want (along with any further categories suggestions for the Non-Fiction section). :smile:

Yay! *Goes off to compile list*

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Reply 43

Louise_x

Bringing Down the House - Ben Mezrich.
The story is fiction, but it's based on true events. So good.

In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner.
Drama/romance. I know it's a bit girly, but it really is a good book. Far better than the film.

Reply 44

Escriba

Fantasy
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Classics
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Reply 45

Escriba

Original post by Charlesworth

My Best Friend's Girl (Dororthy Koomson) - Fiction
The Ice Cream Girls (Dorothy Koomson) - Fiction

neither really fit into any of the categories mentioned :redface:

Deja Dead (Kathy Reichs) - Crime Fiction
Death Du Jour (Kathy Reichs) - Crime Fiction

I can't help but boast a little. :colondollar:

Did you know (of course you didn't) that she's one of my dad's close friends sister? I haven't actually read any of her books myself yet but my sister has and she says they're good.

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Reply 46

Charlesworth

Original post by Escriba

I can't help but boast a little. :colondollar:

Did you know (of course you didn't) that she's one of my dad's close friends sister? I haven't actually read any of her books myself yet but my sister has and she says they're good.

wow, have you ever met her? And you should really read them, they are so good :smile:

Reply 47

Escriba

Original post by Charlesworth

wow, have you ever met her? And you should really read them, they are so good :smile:

I haven't no-I know-there are so many books I should read and I love reading but recently I've been procrastinating! :frown:

Don't know why-I'm going to try and get back on track though. Should definitely help my writing come along at any rate! :smile:

Reply 48

_vox_

Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie) - probably classics, but a kind of fantasy/history mix
Kingmaker, Kingbreaker (Karen Miller) - high fantasy
The Colour Purple (Alice Walker) - classics

Erm... what about books of poetry? Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife and W.B Yeats' The Rose are both worth reading. :rolleyes:

Reply 49

CrazyBeautiful

The Woman in White, (Wilkie Collins) - Classic (19th C)

The Master and Margarita, (Mikhail Bulgakov)- Classic (20th C)

Everything Is Illuminated, (Jonathan Safran Foer)- General fiction/contemporary? It is also quasi-magical-realist/fantasy, so put it where you want :tongue:

and though we're only allowed 3, since you want some that people may not have heard of, my favourite 'random' novel- and one that I highly doubt people have read but should- is:

Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, (Gary K. Wolf)- Mystery
(NB: Who Framed Roger Rabbit is based on it, but the novel is darker and more for adults!)

Please add it :biggrin:

Reply 50

thunder_cat

I definatly reccomend Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

It was made into Blade Runner the movie later on.

Awesome Sci Fi Book.

The BFG.

Mines the only one with such epic art :p:

Reply 53

FormerlyHistoryStudent

I think you will need to make a separate thread for non-fiction, I've got tons :biggrin:

Travel writing (some cross over between travel, history and adventure)

1900 - 1950

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Laurie Lee)
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Rebecca West)
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (John Steinbeck)
Arabian Sands (Wilfred Thesiger)
Between the Woods and the Water - On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland (Patrick Leigh Fermor)

1951 - 2001

The Shadow of the Sun (Ryszard Kapuskinski)
Notes From A Big Country - Bill Bryson
The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson
A Writer's World: Travels 1950 - 2000 (Jan Morris)
The Age of Kali (William Dalrymple)
An African in Greenland (Kpomassie Tete-Michel)
Travels With Charley: In search of America (John Steinbeck)
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Eric Newby)
In Patagonia (Bruce Chatwin)
The Songlines (Bruce Chatwin)
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft (Thor Heyerdahl)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Ernesto 'Che' Guevra)
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas (Paul Theroux)
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (Paul Theroux)
The Lost World of the Kalahari (Laurens Van der Post)

19th Century

Around the World on a Bicycle (Thomas Stevens)
The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches (Charles Darwin)
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour (Gustave Flaubert)
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Journals of Lewis & Clark

18th Century

James Cook: The Journals (Captain James Cook)
Ventures in the Interior of Africa (Mungo Park)
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (Henry Fielding)
A Tour Through The Whole Isle of Great Britain (Daniel Defoe)

Earlier

The Journey Through Wales (Gerald of Wales)
The Travels of Marco Polo

Reply 54

FormerlyHistoryStudent

History

Letters, diaries (non travel related), biography/autobiography

Children of the Killing Fields (Dith Pran)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
The Diary of John Evelyn
Journal of Emily Shore
The Lives of the Artists (Giorgio Vasari)
Letters on England (Voltaire)
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (Olaudah Equiano)
The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives (Sebastian Faulks)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
Journals and Letters (Frances Burney)
The London Journal 1762- 1763 (James Boswell)
Rural Rides (William Cobbett)
Diary of a Country Parson, 1758 – 1802 (James Woodforde)
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
The Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
The Life of Samuel Johnson (James Boswell)
The Pillow Book (Sei Shonagon)

Other

Taste: The Story of Britain Through its Cooking (Kate Colquhoun)
The Shocking History of Advertising (E S Turner)
London: The Biography (Peter Ackroyd)
Black Sea: The Birthplace of Civilisation and Barbarism (Neil Ascherson)
A History of Wales (John Davies)
Chronicles of the Crusades (Joinville & Villehardouin)
Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America (John Charles Chasteen)
On Sparta (Plutarch)
The Histories (Herodotus)
London Labour and the London Poor (Henry Mayhew)
Chronicles (Froissart)
Prehistory of Australia (John Mulvaney)
Made in America (Bill Bryson)
The Faber Book of Reportage (John Carey)

Reply 55

FormerlyHistoryStudent

Mythology/Anthropology/Folklore

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
The Mahabharata
The Vinland Sagas (Leif Eiricksson)
The Healing Land: The Bushmen of the Kalahari (Rupert Isaacson)
Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain (Ronald Hutton)
Tales of Hi and Bye: Greeting and Parting Rituals from Around the World (Torbjorn Lundmark)
King Harald’s Saga (Snorri Sturluson)
Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Sutton Companion to the Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain (Marc Alexander)
Early Irish Myths and Sagas (Jeffrey Gantz)
Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behaviour (Desmond Morris)
The Mabinogion (Sioned Davies)
The Prose Edda (Snorri Sturluson)
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Iona and Peter Opie)

Reply 56

FormerlyHistoryStudent

Photography

Through the Lens: National Geographic’s Greatest Photographs
Water Light Time (David Doubilet)
Frans Lanting: Jungles (Frans Lanting)
Empty Quarter: A Photographic Journey to the Heart of the Arabian Desert (George Steinmetz)
Guatemala Rainbow (Gianni Vecchiato)
The Photography Book (Phaidon Press)
Over India: Kite’s Eye Photographs of India (Nicolas Chorier)
African Ceremonies (Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher)

Reply 57

FormerlyHistoryStudent

Psychology

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Sigmund Freud) (I’m not saying that I particularly believe in what he says, but it’s still very interesting to read whether you think he’s right or not.)
Interpreting Dreams (Sigmund Freud) (Same as above.)
Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Explore the Minds of Killers (Dorothy Otnow Lewis)
Sybil: The True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities (Flora Schreiber)
Extraordinary People: Understanding Savant Syndrome (Darold A Treffert)
Twin Stories: Their Mysterious and Unique Bond (Susan Kohl)
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Oliver Sacks)

Reply 58

FormerlyHistoryStudent

Language/Literature/Linguistics

Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature (Humphrey Carpenter)
Mother Tongue (Bill Bryson)
I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ear and Other Intriguing Idioms from Around the World (Jag Bhalla)
The Story of English (Robert McCrum)
The Meaning of Tingo (Adam Jacet de Boinod)