Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Good Modern Books

Michael Crichton


Congo


Jurrasic Park


Lost World


Prey


Sphere


Timeline




Neil Gaiman


American Gods


Anansi Boys


Coraline


Good Omens (along with Terry Pratchett)


Neverwhere


Stardust



Diana Wynne Jones



Archer's Goon


Castle in the Clouds


Charmed Life


Dogsbody


Fire and Hemlock


Hexwood


Howl's Moving Castle


The Eight Days of Luke



Christopher Paolini



Eragon


Eldest



J.K. Rowling



Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets


Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban


Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire


Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix


Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince


Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (not released or read yet)

Classics

Louisa May Alcott


Little Women (Note: Some versions of this book contain just the book Little Women, while others contain both Little Women and it's direct sequel Good Wives both under the title Little Women)


Little Men

Jo's Boys

Eight Cousins

Rose in Bloom

Jack and Jill



Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Halloween Tree
The Illustrated Man
Charles Dickens


David Copperfield

Great Expectaions

Hard Times

Oliver Twist


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Sherlock Holmes Casebook

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Sign of Four

Sir Nigel

The White Company

Alexander Dumas

The Black Tulip

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Three Musketeers

Twenty Years After

The Man in the Iron Mask

Victor Hugo

Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Les Miserables

Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hallow

Rip Van Winkle

Robert Lewis Stevenson

Catriona

Kidnapped

The Black Arrow

The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Weir of Hermiston

Treasure Island

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Huck Finn

Tom Sawyer Detective

Tom Sawyer Abroad


A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage (Note: This story was written around 1876, but due to a long legal battle over it's ownership it was first published in 2001)

Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

Jules Verne

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Around the World in 80 Days

From the Earth to the Moon (Note: This book is often published along with it's sequel Round the Moon either under the just the title From the Earth to the Moon or under the title From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon)

Michael Strogoff

Paris in the 20th Century (Note: This previously unpublished book was discovered in 1994 sealed away in a vault in Jules Verne's summer home along with several of his notes. While unfinished, it does have a suitable enough ending.)

The Master of the World

The Mysterious Island

H.G. Wells

The Complete Short Stories of H.G.Wells

The Invisable Man

The Time Machine

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Dr. Seuss books

Books I find notable by Dr. Suess



Butter Battle Book

500 Hats of Bartolomew Cubbins

Fox in Socks

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat Returns

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

The Lorax

The Sneetches

Green Eggs and Ham

Hop on Pop