December, Day 18 (a little late)
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grundyscribblingWhat are you talking about?
I've gotten a bit behind. The silly part is I checked on the 17th, got excited to think about the topic for the next day...and then promptly forgot on the 18th.
independence1776 asked for Favorite nonfiction and fiction books (excluding Tolkien).
Nonfiction is actually quite tricky, because I read a lot of non-fiction, and of late I've gotten quite sloppy about putting my read books into GoodReads, which is usually how I keep track. I've paged through the past few years and pulled the five star non-fiction. In no particular order, The Color of Law, Hidden Figures, Ida: A Sword Among Lions, Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, A London Year, Spacesuit, Digital Apollo, Design of Everyday Things, Envisioning Information, Popular Justice: A History Of Lynching In America, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, A Few Bloody Noses: The American War of Independence, The Chocolate Connoisseur, Of Sugar and Snow: A History of Ice Cream Making, Salt Fat Acid Heat, and Maus (I & II). On the German side, Der Pakt: Stalin, Hitler, und die Geschichte einer mörderischen Allianz, Eva Braun: Leben mit Hitler, and Die Büchse der Pandora: Geschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs, and (this one is really just me) Hanau im Dritten Reich, Band I. (I can provide links to GoodReads or publisher's pages if there is interest, and will be happy to talk more about any specific book if requested.)
Fiction If you want the all-time list, I would say the Harry Potter books (but only the books, I ignore all utterances from JKR's direction in the past 5+ years), the LM Montgomery books (not just Anne - also Emily, Jane, and Marigold), Anne McCaffrey's Pern books - particularly the Harper Hall trilogy (she's another one who had funny ideas, though they also showed somewhat in the books, but I like dragons, so please just let me be sentimental about them), Terry Pratchett's Nation and Hogfather (also Night Watch), Good Omens, Jane Austen (except Northanger Abbey, which I've never really gotten into), Neverwhere, the Northern Lights trilogy (reserving judgement about the Book of Dust books...), The Martian, and Sherlock Holmes.
Not sure if they're on the all-time list, but I really like them: the Hunger Games books, the Rivers of London series, the Bryant & May books, City of Brass, the Ember in the Ashes books, and the Akata books (I think it's going to be a trilogy?). Oh, and I almost forgot Momo and Die unendliche Geschichte. (Basically, I walked into my bedroom and looked at my bookshelves. But those are only the English books.)
I've gotten a bit behind. The silly part is I checked on the 17th, got excited to think about the topic for the next day...and then promptly forgot on the 18th.
independence1776 asked for Favorite nonfiction and fiction books (excluding Tolkien).Nonfiction is actually quite tricky, because I read a lot of non-fiction, and of late I've gotten quite sloppy about putting my read books into GoodReads, which is usually how I keep track. I've paged through the past few years and pulled the five star non-fiction. In no particular order, The Color of Law, Hidden Figures, Ida: A Sword Among Lions, Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, A London Year, Spacesuit, Digital Apollo, Design of Everyday Things, Envisioning Information, Popular Justice: A History Of Lynching In America, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, A Few Bloody Noses: The American War of Independence, The Chocolate Connoisseur, Of Sugar and Snow: A History of Ice Cream Making, Salt Fat Acid Heat, and Maus (I & II). On the German side, Der Pakt: Stalin, Hitler, und die Geschichte einer mörderischen Allianz, Eva Braun: Leben mit Hitler, and Die Büchse der Pandora: Geschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs, and (this one is really just me) Hanau im Dritten Reich, Band I. (I can provide links to GoodReads or publisher's pages if there is interest, and will be happy to talk more about any specific book if requested.)
Fiction If you want the all-time list, I would say the Harry Potter books (but only the books, I ignore all utterances from JKR's direction in the past 5+ years), the LM Montgomery books (not just Anne - also Emily, Jane, and Marigold), Anne McCaffrey's Pern books - particularly the Harper Hall trilogy (she's another one who had funny ideas, though they also showed somewhat in the books, but I like dragons, so please just let me be sentimental about them), Terry Pratchett's Nation and Hogfather (also Night Watch), Good Omens, Jane Austen (except Northanger Abbey, which I've never really gotten into), Neverwhere, the Northern Lights trilogy (reserving judgement about the Book of Dust books...), The Martian, and Sherlock Holmes.
Not sure if they're on the all-time list, but I really like them: the Hunger Games books, the Rivers of London series, the Bryant & May books, City of Brass, the Ember in the Ashes books, and the Akata books (I think it's going to be a trilogy?). Oh, and I almost forgot Momo and Die unendliche Geschichte. (Basically, I walked into my bedroom and looked at my bookshelves. But those are only the English books.)
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Date: 2019-12-21 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-22 01:38 pm (UTC)The Harper Hall trilogy was my first introduction to Pern; Dragonsong was printed in its entirety in my high school freshman literature book. Cue my sister and me reading it pretty much as soon as we realized it was there.
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Date: 2019-12-22 01:45 pm (UTC)Seriously? It was in the textbook?? (This is part 2138 in my 'Why did everyone else have cooler literature/reading assignments or textbooks than my schools did?' series... They've gotten better. Now that those of us in my age cohort are grown and picking the texts/designing the curriculum.)
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Date: 2019-12-22 01:51 pm (UTC)I read quite a bit of non-fiction, but nearly all of it comes from the library, either directly from my local or county libraries or via ILL. I should think most of these would be available in e versions - the obvious exceptions that spring to mind would be Maus and one of the German ones that's put out by the local historical society.
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Date: 2019-12-22 02:09 pm (UTC)