Book 2: Zombicorns

Title: Zombicorns

Author: John Green

Genre: Fiction (Zombie Appocolypse Novella)

Favourite Quote/Fact: “You know who else used to be people?” she
asked me after a while. “We did. And they took that away from us.”

What's it about?: Mia is a teenaged girl in the post-apocalypse after a strain of disease stemming from corn has ridden most of the world "Z'ed up", this is her telling of the events that came to pass and as they were passing.

My Thoughts:
It always astounds me how amazing John Green really is, and it's not just because his project is the project from which mine springs. He really is just a very good writer, and I can't even describe it to you but despite only being 38 pages I tore through this down-loadable novella like so many bullets through a gaggle of zombies. Also he claims it's bad, well sir, your worst work still trumps all of mine put together. Every time I found a favourite quote another one popped out and was like "No no I'm more awesome" and when I did have to put down a favourite quote it was a frazzling experience.

I liked Mia a lot, she's smart and she's interesting and very much feels for the people that used to be zombies. Though my shining favourite in this would have to be Caroline, kind of crazy and almost seeming heartless she's a good contrast to Mia. I liked Caroline because she knows what she has to do and does it, despite the ramifications. Caroline with her bruised shoulders always going after the Z'ed with a sort of a fervour, an over zealous enjoyment.

I liked this novella because seamlessly in the middle of killing zombies and surviving Mia is talking to you about who we are and why we do things, and the desire to be remembered for the things worth remembering. It raises a philosophical debate in the ashes of what was once civilization. Which is so very human of us, it really is. We're complicated and irrational and will cling to an idea just to have something to cling to. In our bleakest hour when there is nothing but death we'll still contemplate the meaning of it all, and want things we have no business wanting. It raises a lot of good questions and makes you think. Also I teared up a bit, a perfect image painted in a scene that isn't so many words long.

*sighs* Oh John Green, you're that girl who says she's fat when she's about two inches wide. "Bad" is not a word I'd use to describe this novella at all.

If you're interested give 'er a download here: I'm a link!

But first thank to donaters here: and so am I!

Book 1: Catcher in the Rye

Title: Catcher in the Rye

Author: J.D. Sallinger

Genre: Fiction

Favourite Quote/Fact: "Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row."

What's it about?:  Holden is a troubled boy and is often described by many a reader as an unlikable character, but he's extremely human and knows himself. After flunking out of a long line of schools he finds himself, once again getting the boot. On a whim he goes off to New York to enjoy some peace and quiet before facing his parents, of course things don't go quite to plan.

My Thoughts:
To be perfectly honest I stole this book from my English room because our class was reading the Chrysallids instead and I was intrigued as to what all the fuss was about. I don't know what I was expecting but I was quickly disappointed and stopped before Holden had even made it to New York. "Nothing happens!" Complained tenth grade me.
Well tenth grade me you're right, nothing really happens in the story, but this isn't a story about the things that happen to Holden Caulfield it's about Holden Caulfield.

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.  Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me.  And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.  What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.  That's all I do all day.  I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.  I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be"

Holden is a boy who grew too tall over the rye too soon, he suffered a man's troubles as a boy in losing his younger brother and is still dealing with that loss. Several times he talks about not caring when he loses things, money, his jacket, things in general he's never made a big fuss about losing things - but he also describes the night he lost his brother smashing every window in the garage. It's hard to care about losing a couple bucks when you've lost a younger brother. The book is mostly about grief, Holden's grieving process and how he views the world without Allie in it. He doesn't talk about Allie directly all the time but a lot of the things he does talk about reference back to him. It's not the easiest book in the world to read but if you consider it less of something you should be interested in for being amazing and more of something you should be interested in for concern of a friend it's a good read. I'm still entirely baffled as to what the fuss is about though, I mean what with all these crazy people keeping mounds of copies in their house as they go off to shoot people in the face. Holden is sickened with the human condition and "phonies" yes I suppose that is true, but he doesn't want to hurt anybody. He's just frustrated and apathetic and misses his brother and wants the world to slow the heck down so he can get his head on straight! So quit blaming Holden ya jerks!

I liked Holden even though he was a little jaded about most things and often times seemed pessimistic, he's a very real character, he's sensitive and notices things average people don't but in the same breath he's very judgmental at times but also forgiving. People don't like Holden because you end up seeing a lot of yourself in him. You see how judgmental you can be, and how often you're jaded and pessimistic towards humanity. He's not perfect but that's what endeared him to me. 

I had a good laugh and enjoyed thinking about it. I'd go all book report on you because that's what this book lends itself to, it's an English Student's wet dream. So if there are any English students going how the hell do you write about this shit? Read it again! And pay attention, it's full of symbolism, even Holden growing so quickly, and being so tall for his age, and being prematurely grey...One of those books that remind us that all that "English-y garbage" is really important in reading and writing. Things do matter.

Thanks for reminding me.

326 - Any last words?

Today I am finally caught up on the Vlogbrother videos. The book count - as it stands now, is 326! Wow that's a lot of books! If each book takes me a week that'd be 2282 days! 6.5 years! Holy crap this is going to take a while! I'm oddly exhilarated at the prospect of reading these books. But I found in the making of this list wanting for strange programs. 1. A program that organizes a list of books into library categories 2. A list checker that checks for repeats in the list. But amazingly when you type in "Double Checker" it gives you a bunch of...Not that. So yep, get on that science. I have some reading to do - starting with books I have...Soooo Catcher in the Rye! Stay tuned for the review of said book. It should be up...Eventually. Yup.

Knowing my track record with projects, I don't know if I'll finish this, but I'd like to think I will...I'm hoping I will. (6 and a half yeeeears!)

Wish me luck!

Prologue: THE LIST

Welcome to my little piece of insanity, this is, THE NERDFIGHTER LIBRARY CHALLENGE...Yes it does always have to be in capslock.

WHAT?

During the course of the three years it's been running Vlogbrothers has brought together Nerdfighters across the globe, and of course has taught us to never forget to be awesome. If you're asking yourself what is Vlogbrothers? Then boy are you in for a treat, because you are about to find out what kind of person you are, a Nerdfighter...Or a Decepticon! Vlogbrothers is a vlog between Hank and John Green. Most of their videos are made in front of their own personal libraries and as such many a book has been mentioned! My quest? To read and review every single one!

If you're interested in finding out what it is to be a Nerdfighter: CLICK HERE!

WHO?

Myself, and whoever else wishes to join me. I'm curious to see if anyone else will, then again, it's mighty presumptuous of me to assume I'm the first one to do this and hence others would be joining me. I might very well be joining others.

WHY?

Ah, the golden question; Why? Why would I devote so much of my already minuscule time to a project with no instant gratification? Well...Because there's another question, one I haven't heard in a very long time. "Read any good books lately?" This is a dwindling question, and even if I was asked I wouldn't have an answer! As...Here comes the confession - I'm not a reader. There are a great many books that have changed that but in general I wasn't one to be reading, I fancied myself one, but I also fancied myself a good singer...This was made incredibly difficult by the fact I was born into a family of readers! Oh how they hoped for my inevitable hunger for literature and how they would sate it with the knowledge of ages written on pages! Hah. No. That didn't work out at all, the more they wanted me to read the more I hated the idea of it. It's something that is within my grasp to change, no one is pressuring me to read now, except myself. I want to be a reader, I want to love books the way my family has and still does, and the way I have in the few books that have caught me and hopefully this project will ignite a little bit of love in my heart for it. So asker of why...Read any good books lately?

THE RULES

If the book is mentioned, quoted (including title) shown (with a clearly visable title) It goes on the list. 

This INCLUDES books mentioned in a negative light, children's books, graphic novels, groups of books, books I have read previously and the Bible ; - ;

Edit: In the case of shown Biogrpahies (Lots of people wrote about Mark Twain who'da thought!) Though I will do my best to narrow down the biography, unless the author name is legible or at least kind of legible, I won't be able to add it to the list. 

This does NOT INCLUDE articles, the other books in a series if only one book is mentioned* (that bits gonna get confusing), magazines, books in other languages, Home-Made books, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Thesauri.

"The __________ Trilogy" "The ________ Series"  Are reasonable qualifiers for entire blocks of books. However, if it is mentioned as "______ book 1 of the _________ Trilogy" I can only put book one on the list. Rules...How do they happen?

If someone can identify a book on the vlog (for having read it before or having super human squinting capabilities), but does not see it on the list, feel free to comment on this post along with a link to the video and a time stamp of when you found it. I will add her on up. This also applies if I missed a book, to err is human.

I'd like there to be a rule about actually having to hold the book in my hand, as that is the main way I love books, I feel a great disconnect attempting to read a book on a screen, unable to hold it close, cordless and real. The smell of a book, the ink that has formed the letters - but that is the artist in me. And some books may be hard to procure, if not by the Internet or if I were to say get a Kindle or something it would be a waste of resource not to use it. So I merely tentatively put down this rule.

There is no time limit, as I am busy and an extremely slow reader but I do have to read them all before I die! If I die prematurely, feel free to berate me for my poor work ethic at my funeral.

I will not start until I am finished with the three years of vlogs, at the moment I am caught up begins the beginning. And then the list is closed, maybe, I'm not sure yet.

What happens when an author is mentioned but no book specifically? Alas though I would love to branch out into entire libraries of works, this challenge is to read books mentioned and shown. 

The Intended Outcome 

Mostly the intended outcome is that I will have read a bunch of really great books and will have formed opinions on them and have enriched my life and those lives around me. But what most likely will come of this is that I will find it hard to get through books that aren't about a boy wizard named Harry Potter or about the hazardous waters of adolecence. My boyfriend will have a lot of funny parts read out loud to him and hence ruined because my narrative voice does not do justice to the words on the page, and he'll never be able to get the funny that I just experienced. Despite me trying several times to share it with him. Also maybe a couple videos of me reading to you guys, (who ever you guys may be) it depends.We'll see how this goes.

THE VLOG LIBRARY


We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families – Philip Gourevitch
What Is The What – Dave Eggers
The Continuum History of Apocalypticism – Bernard McGinn, John J. Collins, Stephen J. Stein
Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone – J.K.Rowling
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
Looking for Alaska – John Green
An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter – Sue Monk Kidd
Present Moment, Wonderful Moment – Collection of authors I think
Stumbling on Happiness – Daniel Gilbert
The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K Le Guin
The Student Bible
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
Getting The Girl – Markus Zusak
The Mystery of the Golden Spheres – Tracy Harrison
Rabbit at Rest – John Updike
The Cheese Monkeys – Chip Kidd
Everyman – Philip Roth
The Stranger – Albert Camus
The Little Drummer Girl – John Le Carre
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
The Second Coming – Walker Percy
The Echo Maker – Richard Powers
Everything that Rises Must Converge – Flannery O'Conner
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? – The Carter Family
A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
The Naked and The Dead – Norman Mailer
Pooh Gets Stuck – The Winnie The Pooh Book
Everyone Poops – Tarp Gomi
Paper Towns – John Green
The Memory of Whiteness – Kim Stanley Robinson
Going Postal – Terry Pratchett
The Last Child in the Woods – Richard Louv
Feed – M.T. Anderson
Peace is Every Step – Thich Nhat Hanh
The Chalice and The Blade – Riane Eisler
Tithe – Holly Black
The Day Nobody Shared – Care Bears
Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde – Devin DeWeese
Ulysses – James Joyce
World Changing; A User’s Guide for the 21^st Century – Alex Steffen
The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
Deep Economy – Bill McKibben
Fates Worse Than Death – Kurt Vonnegut
The God of Animals – Aryn Kyle
How to be a Lady – Candace Simpson-Giles
Weetzie Bat – Francesca Lia Block
The Rules of Survival – Nancy Werlin
Tyrell – Coe Booth
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing – M.T. Anderson
Just in Case – Meg Rosoff
The Bermudez Triangle – Maureen Johnson
Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helena Fielding
The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
No Exit – Jean Paul Sartre
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Angels in America – Tony Kushner
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Fragile Things – Neil Gaiman
Everything you need to know about The Goth Scene – Kerry Acker
The Most Evil Women in History – Shelley Klein
Hero – Perry Noore
The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman
Rules – Cynthia Lord
The Bible
Guide to Organizing Your Home Library –The New York Times
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon
The Golden Rule – Ilene Cooper
How Did They Die? – Norman and Betty Donaldson
Regarding the Pain of Others – Susan Sontag
As You Like It – William Shakespeare
Early Poems - Robert Frost This Cover
The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Vol. 1 – Michael Chabon
Make Lemonade – Virginia Euwer Wolff
Peeps – Scott Westerfeld
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
Nancy Drew: The Clue in the Jewel Box – Carolyn Keene
Nancy Drew: The Silver Cobweb – Carolyn Keene
Nancy Drew: The Invisible Intruder – Carolyn Keene
Nancy Drew: The Silent Suspect – Carolyn Keene
Hardy Boys: The Twisted  Claw – Franklin W. Dixon
Hardy Boys: The Hooded Hawk Mystery – Franklin W. Dixon
Hardy Boys: The Masked Monkey – Franklin W. Dixon
Hardy Boys: The Shattered Helmet – Franklin W. Dixon
Hardy Boys: The Tower of Treasure – Franklin W. Dixon
Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Samurai Sword – Franklin W. Dixon
Hardy Boys: The Stone Idol – Franklin W. Dixon
Hardy Boys: The Four Headed Dragon – Franklin W. Dixon
Hardy Boys: The Swamp Monster – Franklin W. Dixon
Hardy Boys: Passport to Danger – Franklin W. Dixon
Hardy Boys: Trouble in the Pipeline – Franklin W. Dixon
Hardy Boys: Foul Play – Franklin W. Dixon
Hardy Boys: Lethal Cargo – Franklin W. Dixon
Hardy Boys: Dirty Deeds – Franklin W. Dixon
The Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. Le Guin
CSI: Miami; Heat Wave – Max Allan Collins
The Making of the Atomic Bomb – Richard Rhodes
Stiff – Mary Roach
Universe on a T-Shirt – Dan Falk
The Double Helix – James D. Watson
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer – Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism – Elizabeth Grosz
The Man Who Smiled – Henning Mankell
Heat – Bill Buford
Half Life – Shelley Jackson
The Girls – Lori Lansens
Ludmila’s Broken English – DBC Pierre
One of Us – Alice Domurat Dreget
Story of a Girl – Sara Zarr
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Let it Snow – John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle
13 Little Blue Envelopes – Maureen Johnson
TTYL – Lauren Myracle
Suite Scarlett – Maureen Johnson
Red Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
Blue Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Tales from an Eruption: Pompeii Herculaneum Oplontis – Pier Giovanni Guzzo
Collected Poems – Frederico Garcia Lorca This Cover
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Elsewhere – Will Shetterly
Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them – David Anderegg
Probability and Statistics for Engineering and The Sciences – Jay L. Devore
Solar Energy Project for the Evil Genius – Gavin Harper
The Gifted Kids’ Survival Guide: A Teen Handbook – Judy Galbraith M.A.
Maus – Art Spieglemen
The Iliad – Homer
The Odyssey – Homer
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Gin Tama Vol. 1 – Hideaki Sorachi
Gin Tama Vol. 2 – Hideaki Sorachi
Three Little Words – Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Moby Dick – H. Melville
Hamlet – Shakespeare
Devilish – Maureen Johnson
Kodocha Vol. 1 – Miho Obana
No God but God – Reza Aslan
Little Pea – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
God’s Fool – Mark Slouka
Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
Selected Poems – E. E. Cummings This Cover
The Portable Dorothy Parker – Dorothy Parker This Cover
Final Harvest – Emily Dickinson
My Dad’s a Birdman – David Almond
Shadows in the Twilight – Henning Mankell
Scruffy Teddy Likes to Play – Jill Harker
The Last Good Kiss – James Crumley
Mother Night – Kurt Vonnegut
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
In Dubious Battle – John Steinback
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian – S.C. Lewis
Blue’s Felt Friends – Blue’s Clues
Pyramids – Terry Pratchett
The Third Twin – Ken Follett
The Doctor’s Secret Child – Kate Welsh
Catcher in The Rye – J.D. Salinger
Girl at Sea – Maureen Johnson
Star Wars: X-Wing Starfighters of Adumar – Aaron Allston
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories – J.D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction – J.D. Salinger
Persuasion – Jane Austen
The Hidden Hitler – Lothar Machtan
Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
Encyclopaedia of an Ordinary Life – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Mystic Kingdoms: The Crumbling Towers – Michael B. George
Youtube: An Insider’s Guide to Climbing the Charts – Alan Lastufka
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks – E. Lockhart
River Teeth – David James Duncan
Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future – Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Hyperion – Dan Simmons
Gifts – Urusla K. Le Guin
Voices – Ursula K. Le Guin
Powers – Ursula K. Le Guin
The Official Smart Kids’ Joke Book – Larry Wilde
Interworld – Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves
Ringworld – Larry Niven
The Ringworld Throne – Larry Niven
The Truth – Terry Pratchett
Sorcery and Cencelia: The Enchanted Chocolate Pot – Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change – Bob Seidensticker
Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
Beowulf – Seamus Heanley
Politics – Hendrik Hertzberg
Star Wars: Vector Prime – R.A. Salvatore
The Grand Tour – Caroline Stevermer and Patricia C. Wrede
The Key to the Golden Firebird – Maureen Johnson
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression – Amity Shlaes
The Man Who Ate Everything – Jeffrey Steingarten
A Spot of Bother – Mark Haddon
The Neverending Story – Michael Ende
Funny Little Monkey – Andrew Auseon
Will Grayson, Will Grayson – John Green and David Levithan
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd – Holly Black
Bicycle Diaries – David Byrne
Hot For Words – Marina Orlova
The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
That Extra Half an Inch – Victoria Beckham
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
The Babysitters Club: Claudia and the Sad Good-Bye – Ann M. Martin
Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity Setbacks and Losses – Karen Salmansohn
What I know: Uncommon Wisdom and Universal Truths from 10-year-olds and 100-year-olds – Roger Fishman
Eragon – Christopher Paolini
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
1984 – George Orwell
The Last Hot Time – John M. Ford
Scarlett Fever – Maureen JohnsonHold Still – Nina LaCour
Beautiful Creatures – Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Before I Fall – Lauren Oliver
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling – Maryrose Wood
Rampant – Diana Peterfreund
Clockwork Angel – Cassandra Clare
Hush Hush – Becca Fitzpatrick
Mocking Jay – Suzanne Collins
Touch Blue – Cynthia Lord
Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters – Natalie Standiford
Marcelo in the Real World – Francisco X. Stork
Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs – Michael Gerard Bauer
White Cat – Holly Black
Ironside – Holly Black
A Giant Problem – Holly Black
City of Bones – Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes – Cassandra Clare
City of Glass – Cassandra Clare
Cast of Shadows – Kevin Guilfdile
Johnny Mad Dog – Emmanuel Dongala and Maria Louise Ascher
Tuff – Paul Beatty
Beautiful Children – Charles Bock
The Good Body – Bill Gaston
Good is Dead – ????????????
The Given Day – Dennis Lehane
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
The Witches of Eastwick – John Updike
Oscar Wilde – Richard Ellmann
James Joyce – Richard Ellmann
Dylan Thomas: A New Life – Andrew Lycett
Carry Me Home – Diance McWhorter
The Foxfire Book – Inc. Foxfire Fund and Eliot Wigginton
Foxfire 2 – Eliot Wigginton
Foxfire 3 – Eliot Wigginton
Foxfire 4 – Eliot Wigginton
Foxfire 8 – Margie Bennett and Eliot Wigginton
Foxfire 10 – Inc. Foxfire Fund and George P. Reynolds
Foxfire 12 – Kaye Collins and Angie Cheek
Cradle of Freedom – Frye Gaillard
Confederates in the Attic – Tony Horwitz
Don’t Get Above Your Raisin’ – Bill C. Malone
Tennessee’s Last Kingdom – ??????????
Harder than Hardscrabble – Thad Sitton
A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry – Charles K. Wolfe
One Writer’s Beginnings – Eudora Welty
The Infinite Book – John D. Barrow
Fleet Fire – L.J. Davis
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits – Ayelet Waldman
Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West
All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
Empire Falls – Richard Russo
Losing Battles – Eudora Welty
The Pale Blue Eyes – Louis Bayard
The Right Madness – James Crumley
The Constant Gardner – John Le Carre
Closing Arguments – Frederick Busch
Absolute Friends – John Le Carre
Outcast – Jose LaTour
The Man Who Smiled – Henning Mankell
Bleeding Heart Square – Andrew Taylor
Swan Peak – James Lee Burke
Black Dahlia Avenger – Steve Hodel
Bowman’s Store – Joseph Bruchac
Alma Mater – P.F. Kluge
One More Time – Mike Royko
Harry, A History – Melissa Anelli
Will in the World – Stephen Greenblatt
True Colors – Joyce Lamb
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Ringside – Budo Schulberg
Cut Time – Carlo Rotella
Cinderella Man – Jeremy Schaap
Two Ton – Joseph Monninger
Ringside – Budd Schulberg
Beyond Glory –David Margolick
Ring of Hate – Patrick Myler
The Greatest – Walter Dean Myers
The Greatest Fight of Our Generation – Lewis A. Erenberg
Frommer’s South Pacific – Bill Goodwin
An Island to Oneself – Tom Neale
Timothy of the Cay – Theodore Taylor
Castaway in Paradise – James C. Simmons
Five Against the Sea – Ron Arais
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann Wyss
Nature’s Gambit – David Henry Feldman and Lynn T. Goldsmith
Whatever Happened to the Quiz Kids? – Ruth Duskin Feldmen
On Death and Dying – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Last Words of the Executed – Robert K. Elder and Studs Terkel
With These Walls – Carroll Pickett and Carlton Stowers
The Sweaty Yeti – Roy Apps
The Ship Breaker – Paolo BacigalupiLast Words of Notable Famous People – William B. Brahms
Anna and the French Kiss – Stephanie Perkins
The Forge of God – Greg Bear
Dreadnought – Cherie Priest
The City and The City – China Mieville
Pump Six and Other Stories – Paolo Bacigalupi
The Lovers Dictionary – David Levithan
Those Extraordinary Twins – Mark Twain
Pudd’nhead Wilson – Mark Twain
Zombicorns – John Green
Tender Morsels – Margo Lanagan


Feel free to join me!

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