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I really want to say thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway and for listing your favourite books and recommendations. I have a pretty hefty list of books now, which I will post. But first the winner!
I really do want to say thank you to everyone. It has been fun.
Here is the list of books that were recommended. Some were listed a few times so I will just mention them once. It's listed in order of comments. I've also tried to look for authors so hopefully I have the right ones. Let me know if it's the wrong author (if it's a book you recommended).
* Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
* Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho
* The Bell Jar - Sylvia Path
* Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
* Polly - Freya North
* Kartography - Kamila Shamsie
* Beer in the Snooker Club - Waguih Ghali
* A map of Love - Ahdaf Souief
* On the Road - Jack Kerouac
* The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
* The Perks of being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
* Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
* Little Children - Tom Perotta
* Nerd in Shining Armor - Vicki Lewis Thompson
* Pages for you - Sylvia Brownrigg
* The Orion Series - Ben Bova
* Conversations with the Fat Girl - Liza Palmer
* Mr Maybe - Jane Green
* Percy Jackson Series - Rick Riordan
* The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
* Perfume - Patrick Suskind
* Company - Max Barry
* Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
* Jennifer Government - Max Barry
* Adopted Jane - Helen Fern Daringer
* April Fool's Day - Bryce Courtnay
* Hunting and Gathering - Anna Gavalda
* Hannah's Dream - Diane Coplin Hammond
* The Doomsday Conspiracy - Sidney Sheldon (and other Sidney Sheldon books)
* John Grisham novels
* The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
* Eat, Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
* Why Women should Rule the World - Dee Dee Myers
* Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
* The Kind Diet - Alicia Silverstone
* Skinny Bitch - Rory Freedman
* Bitter is the New Black - Jen Lancaster
* To Sir with Love - E.R. Braithwaite
* The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
* Can you hear the Nightbird Call - Anita Rau Badami
* Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
* The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Memoirs of a Geisha - Authur Golden
* The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
* Twilight Saga - Stephenie Meyer
* Southern Vampire Mysteries - Charlaine Harris (I've read the first few in the series)
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* The Giver - Lois Lowry
* Mandy - Julie Andrews Edward and Joanna Westerman
* Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
* The Curious incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
* She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
* Ender's Games - Orson Scott Card
*Emma - Jane Austen
* Paul Arden books
* Seth Godin books
* Love Walked in - Marisa De Los Santos
* A Year in the World - Frances Mayes
* Dead Sleep - Greg Iles
* The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
* PS...I love You - Cecelia Ahern
* Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
* Last Olympian - Rick Riordan
* Lost Colony - Eion Colfer
* Until You - Judith McNaught
* Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
* Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
* Griffin and Sabine Trilogy - Nick Bantock
* The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (currently reading)
* Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris
* Karen Kingsbury books
* The Knife of Never Letting go - Patrick Ness
* Maze Runner - James Dashner
* Homeland - RA Salvatore
* Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
* A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
* And God created the Au Pair - Benedicte Newland and Pascale Smets
* A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
* The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
* Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
* A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
* The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
* Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
* Because of Winn Dixie - Kate DiCamillo
* Jane Austen Books
* Before you know Kindness - Chris Bohjalian
* Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
* A Womans Place - Lynn Austin
* Handle with Care - Jodi Picoult
* The Double Bind - Chris Bohjalian
* The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
* Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
* The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
* Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
I've highlighted ones I've read (which isn't many). Maybe next time I will list all my favourite books and other recommended ones. I will let you know how I go. And please comment or email me (gracienne.nancy@gmail.com) if there is a book on this list that you try and really enjoy.
23 comments:
OMG I'm so happy she won!!
Thanks for this giveaway!
And for the list! I'm adding some of those to my book list as well!
Congrats to the winner! I'm a total bookworm so I'm going to check out a few that caught my eye.
Thats a lot of books! i'm gonna check some of them out too.
aw yay for Belen!!! i love that she won and i know how she will feel because i was SO excited when i won your giveaway for the year journal :)
Right now i'm reading "The Glass Castle" after enjoying "Half Broke Horses" by the same author for the slow readers book club. Before this one, i finished "Her Fearful Symmetry" by Audrey Niffenegger, same author of my beloved "The Time Travelers Wife."
i like your list, esp. the Austen.
Reading (esp classics) is always sexy! xo
Congrats to the winner!
That is a great book list be sure to let us know how they go :)
I just finished The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks and it was really good - giveaway is going on for it over at my blog too :)
goodness!!! Look at that list! I'll have fun reading em all if only there's no thesis to be finished! (which is the reason why I read a "narratology" books instead of those fun ones :S
and congrats to the winner! :D
This list is wonderful!! Congrats to the winner! xo
Yay Belen is definately a deserving winner!
Looks like you have lots of reading to do, so many great suggestions. Thanks so much for the tag as well :-)
congratulations to belen!!!
and THAT, well, THAT IS ONE LONG LIST!!! i heart it --- i just might steal some titles and get myself reading again!!!
thanks for putting all that up!
Sweeeeet! I'm so excited! Thanks Gracie. ^_^
You know what's funny? I was out shopping just earlier today and was going through the books section and this giveaway didn't come to mind. I was this close [ ] to buying a copy of this today! Good thing I didn't! Yayyyy!!!! And I'm excited about getting a different cover.. from Austraaaaliaaaa. :) You know how much I want to go there. Hehe.
Again, thank you! I can't wait to read it!
I simply must get reading. I haven't read a lot on this list...
Thank you for your sweet blog comment:)
What a pity I missed this giveaway.. I currently have one on my blog at the moment if you'd like to enter:)
That is quite a list! How fulfilling it would be to be able to finish reading everything. Have a great time, love.
And I received your e-mail, dearest, thank you! :) By the way, it looks as if UQ is really coming to pass. Thanks so much for all your support and advice all this while. I shall take you up your suggestion for tea and shopping together as soon as I'm there! Hee, it's gonna be wonderful. <3
Liked your post. Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
:-)
Nikki
Congrats to Belen!
That is a very long list of books to get through Gracie!
xx
PS: I have a little surprise for you on my blog Gracie xx
Perfect for after exams, when all i have to do is finish one book after another. Too bad I have ages till when the exams get over!
WOW,that is one extensive list. I need to get reading!
What a great list darlin - many of these books look so good and I have read a few too. :) Congrats to the winner!
What a lovely list!! I should try to read all those books as well!
Congrats to your winner! And I think I need to add some of these books to my Must Read list!
Exciting! I love giveaways! And what a lovely idea you had for this one. Sorry I missed it. Love your blog.
p.s. I am holding a Peruvian Feather Earring Giveaway at itssimplelove.blogspot.com DOn't forget to check it out!
Rachael
boy oh boy thats a mighty long list!! Im going to get googling them all now!
awe, i missed it!
i am having a ruffled inspired giveaway.. i do hope you stop by and join in :)
http://lolasgirl.blogspot.com/2010/03/with-gratitude.html
I was just trying to think of a new book to read and remembered this list!!
I'm off to the library now :)
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