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Another Trixie Belden fan! 

The Wall (John Hersey); The Diary of Anne Frank; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou); Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom), and  quick read, "chick lit" by Nora Roberts.

Joty, I definitely remember the Trixie Belden books (read them in the mid-50's, as well as Nancy Drew); don't know how some of the stories would hold up in this day and age, however, they were wholesome, entertaining, and age-appropriate, way back when (in the covered-wagon days (LOL/smile).

A good book/read always trumps a good t.v. show/movie, any time, unless it interferes with "Mad Men" on AMC; great series, IMHO.

I know everyone is familiar with Nancy Drew...does anyone remember Trixie Belden? Laura Ingalls Wild is another great author for young girls.

I am joining "Bookies", the reading club in town. For July, the book selection is People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. It hooked me from the first page... 

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I recommend Boy as well.  I suppose we couldn't have expected Dahl's books to have been the result of a normal childhood!  The part I remember the best is his descriptions of the family outings among the fiords in the rowboat...

The Stone Raft - Jose Saramago

The Ground Beneath Our Feet - Salman Rusdie

Nexus - Henry Miller

Man Walks Into A Room - Nicole Krauss

High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

lol no, but we have that one hehehe sounds good :)

Yaso have you read Boy by Ronald Dahl?  It's great!  How about the part when his mom takes him to the dr office and remove his tonsils then he walks several blocks home!

and with my kids i have been reading aloud  all the Roald Dahl books starting with Matilda, they find it fascinating.

My sister used to tell me "The Invalid's Story" by Mark Twain!  I haven't read "The Diary of Adam and Eve" though.  Another one I'll have to try!

Reminds me of one of my favorite poems: "the birth of language" by Lucille Clifton.  It's so good it gives me shivers when I hear it!

hahah i remember the dirty duck, but ya its true i have read some great stuff in playboy, i think i even learned how to cook a special type of salmon and how to pick a certain wine :)

im currently reading short stories of mark twain, very interesting. especially the story about "the diary of adam and eve"

and isnt hustler consider a picture "book" hehehe

My mom always used to tell me that Playboys weren't that bad to read.  And she was right!  I used to read them because they had some funny stuff in there.  It's sort of like reading car magazines.  I don't really care about what's in them, but they're still interesting.  (Although what is up with the Dirty Duck cartoon??  It's never funny!)

Ooh, Stranger in a Strange Land was wonderful!  And 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 are usually required reading for everyone in high school, as they well should be. 

The only Ayn Rand I ever read was Anthem.  I was really surprised by how compact a story it was.  I've heard Altas Shrugged was very interesting too, but I've never tried it.  I don't exactly get to read much these days. 

My all-time nemesis is Crime and Punishment.  I have tried to read it so many times.  But I feel a little better that my sister, who is an English professor, found it nearly impossible to get through The Brothers Karamazov.

I just read a blip that said that Anne of Green Gables is turning 100 soon.  That is a great book for young girls.  And how about I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?  Or The Color Purple and Posessing the Secret of Joy?  All great for girls to read.

Trouble--Hustler is a magazine-not a book.  It doesn't count!

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Yaso, you can only pick 5.

Thinking of each book rekindled so many things, of what, or how I was doing when I read it. I wonder, what will remind me of this time in my life? I better start reading again!

No Flying in The House   by; Betty Brook                     

Where the Red Fern Grows   by; Wilson Rawls                                                 'Webster's Dictionary'

Clan of The Cave Bear   by; Jean Auel

The Stand  by; Stephen King

The Chronicles of Narnia by;   C.S. Lewis

do comic books count, i have over 10,000 of those since i was a little kid

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I don't think I've read five books in my whole lifetime!  Except of course textbooks and technical manuals!  Wait a minute, I read some great books in high school, I took a class called Literary Science Fiction or something like that.  

"1984"

"Fahrenheit 451"

"Childhood's End"

"Stranger in a Strange Land"

"The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag"

Wow that is five!

The Outsiders was first released in 1967--yes I'm that old!  I was 12 or 13 when I read it.

Oh, Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee was good too.  And So Long A Letter by Mariama Ba.

And we can't forget the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy of five parts"!

A sad sign of the lack of progress...

Madkow did you know when the Outsiders was first released they listed the author as S. Hinton because the publisher was afraid that boys wouldn't read it if it was written by a woman.

I'm starting off with my favorite anthology: Compemporary American Poetry.  I probably read from it about once or twice a week.  And it has most of my favorites: Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, Lucille Clifton, Ai, John Berryman, Bill Knott...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Every single book by Sandra Cisneros!  House on Mango Street, Caramelo, Woman Hollering Creek...

The Outsiders by Susan Hinton ties with The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett for childrens books.  The Outsiders has never failed to get a non-reader reading again.

I'll have to figure out the last one.  Possibly Jane Eyre...

No excuse Greg...ever heard of audio books? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I'd add to this list, but I can't read.

oohchild I read the Plague Dogs about 20 years ago and it was sad but realistic from what I remember.  I will have to see if I can get that book and I too was intrigued by the Army Survival Manual and just ordered one off Ebay.  A great place to get books is half.com, a division of Ebay. 

OOOOhhhhh, sistachild!!! I'm not going to even read your post!, I don't want to be influenced by other peoples choices, how fun.

What abou t a 'Chronicle?'  I did scan the post, can I take that? I just saw that I could , ok.

"The Power Of Now" by Eckert Tole

This is hard - I am such an avid reader. I have top five favorites in almost all genres, but here goes, these are my favorite novels, read for entertainment:

Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (I recently read Rhett Butler's People, an excellent sequel to GWTW  - much better than Scarlett - which sucked imho)

Fried Green Tomatos At The Whistle Stop Cafe - Fanny Flagg (have read all her books - all wonderful)

The Stand - Steven King (have read all his books/short stories, including the first version of The Stand)

The World According To Garp - John Irving

Angels & Demons/The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown (have read all his books)

Watership Down, excellent book! Did you read The Plague Dogs by the same author?

Funny how Gone with the Wind ends up on both lists. I'll bet The Wizard of Oz does, too.

I'll have to pick up a copy of the US Army Survival Manual from Amazon....

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One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - My camp name is Nurse Ratchet

The Grapes of Wrath

Watership Down

Black Boy by Richard Wright

Gone With the Wind

Another great blog...plus it will give me a list of books to read!

Liber ABA - Aleister Crowley

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Illusions - Richard Bach

US Army Survival Manual - Department of Defense