Posted by MaggieH (admin)
Oct 1, 2009 10:56 am

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• Born to Run by Christopher MCDougall; The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood; Breakfast With Budda by Roland Merullo; The Moral Animal by Robert Wright; Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby

  Oct 1, 2009 2:36 pm
  by dreamdust

• Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. (And try to forget the terrible movie)
  
  Anything by Neil Gaiman or Douglas Coupland
  
  Also, how about James Elroy's new novel? I am waiting to hear the outcome of the contest before I go and buy my copy.

  Oct 1, 2009 2:52 pm
  by cresswga

• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, Netherland by Joseph O'Neill, How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins, The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

  Oct 2, 2009 7:06 am
  by dreamdust

• Pat Conroy's new book - South of the Bend? Can't quite remember the title.

  Oct 2, 2009 11:14 am
  by laureltree1

• The Dracula Tape by Fred Saberhagen. Dracula's rebuttal to his story as told by Bram Stoker.

  Oct 2, 2009 1:15 pm
  by Golem100

• Oooh I hadn't heard of that Golem. I am reading Dracula at the moment and I could see how that could work really well. I shall have to check it out. (Hopefully it is better than Wicked was for the Wizard of Oz)

  Oct 4, 2009 9:02 am
  by cresswga

• Something by John Muir, since PBS is doing the national parks on T.V. I find myself wanting to read something by him. Plus some nonfiction would be welcome for variety.

  Oct 4, 2009 12:17 pm
  by dreamdust

• Cresswga: Much better. There are sequels but I haven't read them.

  Oct 5, 2009 8:32 am
  by Golem100

• @Cresswga There is an excerpt of Blood's a Rover available on the publisher's website here. We didn't include it in DailyLit Selects because of its strong language, which increases the possibility that our emails will be flagged as spam.

  Oct 8, 2009 12:44 pm
  by MaggieH (admin)

• Thanks Maggie. I had not thought that possibility. I will bear it in mind for future recommendations.
  
  I am so used to reading the classics through Daily Lit that I rarely come across anything stronger than an exclamation of "My goodness!"

  Oct 9, 2009 10:48 am
  by cresswga

• A new one that sounds like a good read-Goddess of the Market, the life of Ayn Rand.

  Oct 22, 2009 3:22 pm
  by dreamdust

• Broken Horses by Jeanette Walls. The Glass Castle was an amazing read, and I would really enjoy learning more about the author's family. Broken Horses is a fictionalized memoir, but so were The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Please consider my request.

  Nov 6, 2009 8:09 am
  by hellohello

• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls.

  Dec 7, 2009 7:26 pm
  by hellohello

• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, anything by Jonathan Carroll, or Abraham Verghese (Cutting for Stone for Fiction or The Tennis Partner for memoir).

  Dec 8, 2009 4:18 pm
  by jjhanson

• Just Kids by Patti Smith and/or Design Revolution by Emily Pilloton-(very cool).

  Jan 25, 2010 10:49 pm
  by dreamdust

• I must say your post is fabulous. thanks for telling all this to us.

  Jan 29, 2010 5:50 am
  by mickey24smith

• Eden's Outcasts; the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father by John Matteson

  Feb 21, 2010 8:12 am
  by dreamdust

• Thanks for all of your suggestions, folks--we really appreciate them. Just wanted to let you know that we do pay attention to them all, even if we can't always include them in the book channel. Keep them coming!

  Feb 22, 2010 11:59 am
  by MaggieH (admin)

• Something from Bach - just reading bridge across forever ;)

  Feb 22, 2010 12:43 pm
  by wraptextaround

• Agatha Christie's endless night, 13 problems , orient express, pale horse etc could be included.

  Feb 28, 2010 5:31 am
  by nalinib

• ODYSSEYA
  An Epic Journey from Russia to Australia
  ISBN 978-0-646-48901-8
  Available on Amazon.com
  The effects of the arrival of the Viking warriors and how this can be traced and understood to have lead to the fall of the Romanov Empire are excellently drawn together. Spanning Old Russia to the Russian Diaspora, the content provides much historical information sourced from a diverse collection of Russian chronicles and history. However the human interest of Alex’s family of Russian colonists is continually brought to the fore through the interweaving of personal accounts, reflection and, as the author attests, an anthropological and forensic application to what he recalls and has been told.

  Jun 28, 2010 11:27 pm
  by ODYSSEYA

• I would enjoy seeing an excerpt from The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender.

  Jun 29, 2010 5:33 am
  by dreamdust

• One other book-Parisians, An adventure history of Paris by Graham Robb-an excerpt from that would be wonderful.

  Jul 4, 2010 12:07 pm
  by dreamdust

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