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Suggestions: May 2011

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Libra

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I was thinking we choose the following 3 months.
May,June and July.

Your opinions and suggestions.:)
 
No,I mean choose the next three books for the next three months.:)

I still want to read Thomas Jefferson.
 
Well, I'm looking through my TBR pile and I will select:

The Religion, by Tim Willocks
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown
Louise de la Valliere, by Alexandre Dumas
 
My nominees:

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Swan Song by Robert McCammon

ETA: just thought of a third! The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
 
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

The Messenger - Markus Zusak (Author of "The Book Thief")

The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
 
eldog, The Picture Of Dorian Gray was already BOTM in November 2005.
You can find the list of discussed books here.

I'm gonna nominate three books too, I just have to give it some thought...
 
My suggestions:
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
 
Busted! :blush: :lol:

Another excuse for me to buy new books,then I remembered my TBR pile...lol

I have read the first two on your list,did not enjoy the first,loved the second and would really want to take a crack on the third,with company,lol

I was thinking :Kafka ,Reading Lolita In Tehran....
 
My three:

Reading Lolita in Tehran:Azar Nafisi
Eleanor of Aquitaine-ALife:Alison Weir
The Case for God:Karen Armstrong
 
This is what we have up to now:

The Religion, by Tim Willocks
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown
Louise de la Valliere, by Alexandre Dumas
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
The Messenger - Markus Zusak (Author of "The Book Thief")
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
Reading Lolita in Tehran:Azar Nafisi
Eleanor of Aquitaine-ALife:Alison Weir
The Case for God:Karen Armstrong


We have 15 titles,we have to bring them down to 10.
 
This is what we have up to now:

The Religion, by Tim Willocks
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown
Louise de la Valliere, by Alexandre Dumas
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
The Messenger - Markus Zusak (Author of "The Book Thief")
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
Reading Lolita in Tehran:Azar Nafisi
Eleanor of Aquitaine-ALife:Alison Weir
The Case for God:Karen Armstrong


We have 15 titles,we have to bring them down to 10.

Is the theme or genre for the coming months "Text Books"?

I have never heard of any of those books or authors
 
naw just bustin' chopsI've heard of Virginia Woolf, McCammon, Wilde

Wanna take it outside?:cool:

New list:

The Religion, by Tim Willocks
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown
Louise de la Valliere, by Alexandre Dumas
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
The Messenger - Markus Zusak (Author of "The Book Thief")
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
Reading Lolita in Tehran:Azar Nafisi
The Case for God:Karen Armstrong

Landslide reminded me that
Dorian Gray was already a BOTM and I am removing Eleanor of Aquitaine.
So,13 titles.
 
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