Re: [talkies] Summer reading

[theteach <theteach@theteachonline.net>]

> also i didnt see my contributions or mention of the mystery writers, 
> which was fascinating, given that propensitiy by most of us esp in these 
> off days from school and the need for these diversions of intellect and 
> mystery....

Thanks Ted, Mysteries are on the list. I expect I may have missed some 
contributions. As I said, I simply collected titles, authors, and titles 
with authors. I print and carry to the library or refer to when 
downloading books from the library.

I have added yours to the list.
alex

Tsotsi by Athol Fugard 
The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre.

Living Large in a Smaller Space, Culbertson and Decker,

Midnight in Scily: On Art, Food, History, Travel, and La Cosa Nostra, 
Peter Robb,

The History of Love, Nicole Kraus, 
Digging in American, Anne Tyler 
The Places in Between, Rory Stewart

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. 
The Dance of Death by Preston Douglas and Lincoln Child

Fountas and Pinnell's Teaching for Comprehension and Fluency
Wilhelm's Going with the Flow
Probst's Response and Analysis.

Brian Vaughan's Y: The Last Man.
John Barry's The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest
Plague in History .

Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett, the third adventure of Tiffany Aching
and the Wee Free Men.

The Prophet of Yonwood, the prequel to City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau.

Tony Romano's book on multi genre research.


Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks

Two books on the life and works of Carl Jung. (no title given)

Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride by Marion Woodman

Ismael by Daniel Quinn

The Dream Weaver by Jack Bowen.

Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams and Pigs in Heaven

The Cat Who Went to PAris
Marley and Me

How to Read Literature Like a Professon by Foster
Lolita in Tehran
Barak Obama's memoir/autobiography

A Tale of Two Cities 
The Sun Also Rises 
Joy Luck Club, 
Separate Peace, 
Catcher in the Rye.


Kite Runner 
Reading Lolita in Tehran


Reading Lolita in Tehran

Barak Obama's memoir/autobiography

School stuff:

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Catcher in the Rye.by JD Salinger

Digging to America by Anne Tyler 
Saturday by Ian McEwan. 
Jane Smiley in 1000 Acres. 
Truth and Consequences by Alison Lurie 
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by CArolyn Mackler. 
Salem Falls by J. Picoult, 
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, 
On Beauty by Zadie Smith, 
The Accidental by Ali Smith, 
The Man of my Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld


Anne George, Murder on a Bad Hair Day. 
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Alexander McCall Smith's *The Girl Who Married a Lion.*

Lolita_ by Nabakov,
In Cold Blood_ by Truman Capote
Sophie's World_ by Jostein Gaarder.

Reading for Understanding_,
Situations: A Casebook of Virtual Realities for the English
Teacher_, and _The Secondary Teacher's Discipline Survival Kit

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.

Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs, 
The First to Die by  James Patterson 
Wicked
Gilead
The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph M. Marshall

Map of Bones 
The Historian 
The Poe Shadow
A Thread of Grace, Forever and The Sparrow. 
Anna Karenina, 
Marley and Me,
Devils Teeth

The Historian,
Gilead 
Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
The Children of Willesden Lane,

The Beatles by Bob Spitz 
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Gatsby's Girl
The Secret Life of Bees
Prey
Got Game by Ward & Beck 
What Video Games Have to Teach us about Literacy & Learning by
James Gee

_On Beauty_, 
Annie Proulx's short story collection "Bad Dirt" 
_Wintering_ by Kate Moses.
_Little Fugue_ by Robert Anderson

Amy Tan:  Saving Fish from Drowning 
Dave Eggers: You Shall Know our Velocity

Lisa See:  Snow FLower and the Secret Fan
Sam Pickerin: Letters to a Teacher
Romano's Clearing the Way
Kooser's The Poetry Home Repair Manual

ELizabeth Berg -- We Are All Welcome Here.

DaVinci Code.
Sharon Penman books

Colleen McCullough's books, not just the Thorn  Birds, but her Masters of 
Rome

The Eight by Katherine Neville.

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
	 _March_ for which she was
	_Nine Parts of Desire_

Jodi Picoult's The Tenth Circle
Mary Kay Andrews' Savannah Breeze 
Cathy Holton's Revengs of the Kudzu Debutantes
Marilynne Robinson's Gilead 
Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife 
Margaret Maron Judge Deborah Knott 
Bob Probst's Response and Analysis 
Megan McCafferty's Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings and Charmed Thirds
Zapped

Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
Timothy Tyson's Blood Done Sign My Name

Nevada  Barr's work

Diane Mott Davison's "Goldie" mystery paperbacks

*Currently reading-Living Large in a Smaller Space, 
*Culbertson and Decker, 
*Midnight in Scily: On Art, Food, History, Travel, and La Cosa Nostra, 
*Peter Robb,
*The History of Love, 
*Nicole Kraus, 
*Digging in American, *Anne Tyler 
*The Places in Between, 
*Rory Stewart

 _The Road_ - McCarthy
 _Mr. Touch_ Bosse
 _Island_ - MacLeod
 A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga - Whittey
 _A River out of Eden_ - Hockenberry
 _Sisters of the Earth_ - Anderson (ed.)
 When Rain Clouds Gather - Head
 Green Days by the River - Anthony
 Light in the Crossing - Meyers

 Trouble at Marsh Harbor -Sharpe
 Chemo Kid  - Lipsyte
 Hoot & Flush ~V (both by Carl Hiassen)
 Sniper ~V Taylor
 Shadows in the Water - Lasky
 Jaguar - Smith

 Deep Dream of the Rain Forest ~V Bosse
 The Highest Tide ~V Lynch
 Winter in the Heart  - Poyer
 Shadows on the Pond -Herzig
 Green Thumb  - Thomas
 Peace, O River - Garden
 The Weirdo - Taylor
 Downriver -Hobbs
 I pledge allegiance to the earth
 And all the life which it supports,
 One planet in our care,
 Irreplaceable,
 With sustenance and respect for all.

Meeting  Jesus Again for the First Time_, Borg; 
The Historian_ by what's her  name; 
The Year of Magical Thinking_, Didion;
God Has a Dream,_ Tutu; 
The Mercy of Thin Ai_r, Domingue; 
Booked to Die_, Dunning; 
The Rural > Life_, Klinkenborg; 
End of Faith_, Harris;
Secrets in the Dark: A Life  in Sermon_s, Buechner;
 _Ethics_, Bonhoeffer.

Robert B. Parker mysteries

Prodigal Summer   Barbara Kingsolver   fiction
Small Wonder	Barbara Kingsolver	essays

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle  Barbara Kingsolver  memoir
http://www.kingsolver.com/bookshelf/miracle.asp

Amelia Peabody Mystery Series  Elizabeth Peters 
mystery http://www.ameliapeabody.com/

Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in
Peace and War  Edward J. Renehan  history

Frankin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an  Epic
Friendship  Jon Meacham  history

Anna Pigeon series by  Navada Barr mystery
http://www.nevadabarr.com/

The Tender Bar -- J.R Moehringer -- autobiography

The Road -- Cormac McCarthy  fiction (Pulitzer this
year)

Case Histories -- Kate Atkinson 
Behind the Scenes at the Museum -- Kate Atkinson
A Sudden Country -- Karen Fisher (fiction; highly

 _The Road_
 _Mr. Touch_
 _Wolf of Shadows_

The Happy Journey from Camden to Trenton by Thornton Wilder (short play)
Driving Miss Daisy by A. Uhry (play)
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor (short story)
TheHobbit, et al by JRRTolkien
Their Eyes Were WAtching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lyddie Newton by Jane Smiley
The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn (non-fiction)
What is the What? by Dave Eggars  (non-fiction novel)
The Only Road There Is by Rebecca Bailey

Their Eyes Were WAtching God by Zora Neale Hurston


What Came Before He Shot Her 
With No One as Witness;
Thomas Lynley/Barbara Havers series:
	> A Great Deliverance (1988)
	> Payment in Blood (1989)
	> Well-Schooled in Murder (1990)
	> A Suitable Vengeance (1991)
	> For the Sake of Elena (1993)
	> Missing Joseph (1994)
	> Playing For the Ashes (1995)
	> In the Presence of the Enemy (1996)
	> Deception on His Mind (1997)
	> In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (1999)
	> A Traitor to Memory (2001)
	> With No One As Witness (2005)

Stand-Alone Novels:
	A Place of Hiding (2003)
	What Came Before He Shot Her (2006)

Short Story Collections:
	The Evidence Exposed (1999)
	I, Richard (2002)

Nonfiction:
	Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life (2004)

Editor:
	A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women (2004)
>
Agatha Cristie
Dorothy Gilman 
PD James

Revenge of the Paste Eaters, by Elizabeth George
The Whistling Season

Peter Tremayne - 18 books on Sister Fidelma, 
Henning Mankell - the Kurt Wallander mystery series -

Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca,
Sally Beauman's Rebecca's Tale.

Ian Rankin (Scottish)
Peter Robinson (English)
Ken Bruen (Irish)
Henning Mankell (Swedish) -- Kurt Wallander

Robert Crais (US) -- LA Elvis Cole
Michael Connelly (US)
John Lescroart (US) -- SF Dismas Hardy

Sharyn McCrumb,

Kathy Reichs Temperance Brennan mysteries


Henning Mankell's books
Patricia Cornwell
Donna Leon

Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey series

Josephine Tey--"Daughter of Time"

Kate Atkinson's Case Histories

Anne Perry myteries

Margaret Maron's Judge Deborah Knott series

Kathy Reichs Temperance Brennan mysteries

"you suck" by christopher moore
_alternatives to sex_ 
_Glengarry Glen Ross_ 
_white tiger_
_up in honey's room_ by elmore leonard
_quite honestly_ by john mortimer. 
_This I believe_ npr essays wonderful resource for teaching.
_memiors of a muse_ lara vapnyar 
_Saving the world_ julia alvarez 
_Eat, pray, and love_
_on beauty_ by zadie smith

_Death of the Mystery Writer_ by Robert Barnard.
Lawrence Block 
_The burglar in the  Library_.