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Permalink Reply by Kamy Wicoff on June 26, 2009 at 6:15pm

Oh my gosh this was FUN and so interesting! KEY is to do it fast, like stream of consciousness or freewrite exercise, it's hard to do because you want to get it "right" somehow but I think it's so interesting what comes out...

Light in August
Pride and Prejudice
The Idiot
Mill on the Floss
The Situation and the Story
Dubliners
Boys of My Youth
Parting the Waters
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Middlemarch
The Brothers Karamazov
Don Quixote
The Selfish Gene
The Runaway
Anna Karenina
The Second Sex

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Permalink Reply by Laura Kranz on July 1, 2009 at 6:47am

1. In Search Of Lost Time
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
4. Crime and Punishment
5. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
6. Song of Solomon
7. Picture of Dorian Grey
8. The Monk
9. Our Man in Havana
10. Tell Me A Riddle
11. Clockwork Orange
12. Anna Karenina
13. House of Mirth
14. Portrait of a Lady
15. Les Miserables

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Permalink Reply by Claire Mysko on July 1, 2009 at 7:42am

OK, I'm doing this fast, no ruminating over responses. Here goes:

1. Betsy-Tacy and Tib
2. From the Mixed-Up of Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
3. Woman: An Intimate Geography
4. The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness
5. Ain't I a Woman?
6. The Phantom Tollbooth
7. Ramona Quimby, Age 8
8. White Women, Race Matters
9. Homecoming
10. Blubber
11. Can't Buy My Love /Deadly Persuasion when I read it
12. Crime and Punishment
13. Flowers in the Attic (for the creepy factor!)
14. Brave New World
15. Anne of Green Gables

Wow, quite a mix. Amazing how so many of the titles that immediately came to mind were ones I read first as a child.

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Permalink Reply by Amy Feldman on July 7, 2009 at 6:00pm

1-One Hundred Years of Solitude
2-Midnight’s Children
3-The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
4-The Year of Magical Thinking
5-The Writing Life
6-The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
7-Amphigorey
8-The Great Crash 1929
9-Eichmann in Jerusalem
10-The Sheltering Sky
11-Orientalism
12-In Cold Blood
13-Song of Solomon
14-Lolita
15-Life of Pi

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Permalink Reply by Jha Goh on July 9, 2009 at 4:59pm

.... But David and Leigh Eddings' Belgariad / Mallorean + 2 prequel books take up 12 of the 15 spots!! Can I count them as one?!

1) Beyond Power
2) Defy Not The Heart
3) The Color Purple
4) Lord of the Rings
5) Their Eyes Were Watching God
6) Redemption of Althalus
7) The Book of Saladin
8) Robot Dreams
9) The Prophet
10) Life of Pi
11) The Last Unicorn
12) The Stone Woman
13) Space Opera
14) When God Was A Woman
15) Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back

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Permalink Reply by Susan Bearman on July 12, 2009 at 10:29am

Numbered, but really in no particular order except Gatsby

1. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
2. Little Women (Alcott)
3. Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
4. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Konisgberg)
5. A Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving)
6. Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers (Lerner)
7. Writing Down the Bones (Goldberg)
8. Angle of Repose (Stegner)
9. Bird by Bird (Lamott)
10. On Writing Well (Zinsser)
11. A is for Annabelle (Tudor)
12. Picture Writing (Suen)
13. My Life and Hard Times (Thurber)
14. Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
15. Alexander and Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Viorst)

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Permalink Reply by Susan Bearman on July 12, 2009 at 10:32am

Several of my favorites were children's books, too, and I could have included all the children's books you did. Maybe this means I should read the other books on your list, as well.

Claire Mysko said:

2. From the Mixed-Up of Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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Permalink Reply by Susan Bearman on July 12, 2009 at 10:33am

Several of my favorites were children's books, too, and I could have included all the children's books you did. Maybe this means I should read the other books on your list, as well.

Claire Mysko said:

2. From the Mixed-Up of Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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Permalink Reply by Eileen Granfors on July 12, 2009 at 10:39am

I love these lists!

1. The Crying Tree
2. Dogs of Babel
3. Memory of Running
4. Speed of the Dark
5. Daughter of Troy
6. Sharp Objects
7. The Year of Fog
8. Gates of Fire
9. Eve: Novel of the First Woman
10. Sleep Towards Heaven
11. Shanghai Girls
12. Sons of Heaven
13. Good Grief
14. Eat Cake
15. Girls in Trouble

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Permalink Reply by Tanya Egan Gibson on July 12, 2009 at 6:12pm

1. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
2. Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)
3. The Confessions of Max Tivoli (Andrew Sean Greer)
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon)
5. Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
6. The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
7. The Keep (Jennifer Egan)
8. Songs for a Teenage Nomad (Kim Culbertson)
9. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
10. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
11. Waterland (Graham Swift)
12. The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
13. Sunnyside (Glen David Gold)
14. The Loss of Leon Mead (Josh Emmons)
15. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz)

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Permalink Reply by Kari O'Driscoll on July 13, 2009 at 3:50pm

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Secret Garden
Motherless Daughters
Where the Heart Is
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Zookeeper's Wife
Cherry
The Language of Baklava
The Name of the Rose
Song of Solomon
Every Living Thing
A Tale of Two Cities
The Grapes of Wrath

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Permalink Reply by Judy Myers Anderson on July 14, 2009 at 4:45am

1. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
2. A Separate Peace (Knowles)
3. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardy)
4. Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
5. In Search of Excellence (Peters)
6. Nicholas and Alexandra (Massie)
7. Dune (Herbert)
8. Chaos (Gleik)
9. The White Album (Didion)
10. All the President's Men (Woodward/Bernstein)
11. Pentimento (Hellman)
12. The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (Steinbeck)
13. Woodstock Nation (Hoffman)
14. The New New Thing (Lewis)
15. The Women's Room (French)

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