Recently on 37days, I asked readers for book recommendations for our reading project. Here are the books they suggested - a fine list and one we will be dipping into liberally during the course of these twelve months of urgent reading:
Book Recommendations from 37days readers:
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Island Within - Richard Nelson
Club of Queer Trades - G. K. Chesterton
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
Parachute Infantry - David Kenyon Webster
Where the Heart Is - Billie Letts
A Wrinkle in Time -Madeleine L’Engle
Anansi Boys -Neil Gaiman
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -Dee Brown
The Trouble with Jenny's Ear -Oliver Butterworth
The Little Prince -Antoine de Saint Exupery
Places Left Unfinished at the Creation of Time -John Phillip Santos
The Poisonwood Bible -Barbara Kingsolver
Into The Forest -Jean Hegland
Crossing to Safety -Wallace Stegner
Daddy Long-Legs -Jean Webster
A Year in Provence -Peter Mayle
The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos -Joel Primack & Nancy Abrams
The Song of the Lark -Willa Cather
These Is My Words -Nancy Turner
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years -Elizabeth Wayland Barber
The Whole World Over -Julia Glass
Anil’s Ghost -Michael Ondaatje
Precious Bane -Mary Webb
Persuasion -Jane Austen
A Kingdom Lost for a Drop of Honey -Maung Htin Aung & Helen G. Trager
The New Testament
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Drinking the Rain -Alix Kates Shulman.
Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Object Lessons - Anna Quindlen
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
Vanishing Acts – Jodi Picoult
The Breakdown Lane – Jacqueline Mitchard
Cage of Stars – Jacqueline Mitchard
Something Rising (Light and Swift) - Haven Kimmel
The Solace of Leaving Early – Haven Kimmel
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
great list!
looks like I missed the opportunity to add to the list when you originally asked for input, but, i'd like to add a couple now anyway- if that's ok
Sula by Toni Morrison is a fave
and
So Big by Edna Ferber
Posted by: grace, Thomai Meta Hara | January 11, 2007 at 12:30 PM
to get in touch with your senses in 2007 try one of my favs: Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
Posted by: Vanessa | January 11, 2007 at 07:29 PM