Heather’s Comments (group member since Sep 01, 2010)

Heather’s comments from the Dementia - Reading Challenges group.

The following is a list that takes you throughout history through historical fiction stories. A lot of them didn't have authors listed so I appologize. (I'll add a few every couple of days as I find time.) They're listed by time period/region rather than ranking.

1.The Penelopaid: Margaret Atwood
2.Death Comes as the End: Agatha Cristie
3.The Clan of the Cave Bear: Jean M. Auel
4.Centennial: James Michener
5.The Secret Magdalene: Ki Longfellow
6.The Red Tent: Anita Diamant
7.Earth’s Children (series, includes Clan of the Cave Bear): Jean M. Auel
8.London: Edward Rutherfurd
9.Sarum: Edward Rutherfurd
10.The Bull from the Sea: Mary Renault
11.Pharaoh
12.The Egyptian
13.I, Claudius
14.The First Man in Rome: Colleen McCullough
15.Masters of Rome
16.The Deryni Novels: Katherine Kurtz
17.The Mists of Avalon
18.The Physician: Noah Gordon
19.Ivanhoe
20.Pope Joan
21.The Pillars of the Earth: Ken Follet
22.The Journeyer
23.The Name of the Rose: Umberto Eco
24.Katherine: Anya Seton
25.The Sunne in Splendor
26.The Agony and the Ecstasy: Irving Stone
27.Princess Mononoke
28.The Historian: Elisabeth Kostova
29.The Constant Princess: Philippa Gregory
30.The Queen’s Fool
31.The Boleyn Inheritance
32.The Other Boleyn Girl
33.The Last Light of the Sun
34.The Drawing of the Dark
35.The Scarlet Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne
36.Forever Amber
37.Year of Wonders
38.Shadows on the Rock: Willa Cather
39.City of Dreams
40.The Three Musketeers: Alexander Dumas
41.Mr. Tucket: Gary Paulsen
42.My Antonia
43.Cenceit
44.Silence
45.Girl with a Pearl Earring
46.Rob Roy
47.Roots
48.Outlander
49.The Talisman Ring
50.The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
51.Arthur & George
52.Henry Paget Flashman
53.Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
54.Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
55.Wuthering Heights
56.Alias Grace
57.Lonesome Dove
58.Les Miserables: Victor Hugo
59.The Count of Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas
60.The Last Empress: Anchee Min
61.City of Glory
62.Death Comes for the Archbishop: Willa Cather
63.One Thousand White Women
64.The Alienist: Caleb Carr
65.The Angel of Darkness
66.Teito Monogatari
67.The Good Earth: Pearl S. Buck
68.The Color Purple
69.Ragtime
70.Middlesex
71.A Thousand Splendid Suns
72.Snow Falling on Cedars
73.The Grapes of Wrath
74.The Joy Luck Club
75.A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
76.Water for Elephants
77.The Thorn Birds
78.Captain Alatriste: Arturo Perez-Reverte
79.Gone with the Wind
80.Slaughterhouse-Five
81.Sharpe: Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe
82.A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens
83.The Corps: WEB Griffin
84.Horatio Hornblower
85.War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy
86.The Book Thief
87.Memoirs of a Geisha: Arthur Golden
88.Tales of the Otori: Lian Hearn
89.King Rat:
90.Doctor Zhivago
91.The English Patient
92.The Killer Angels
93.Number the Stars
94.Cold Mountain
95.All Quiet on the Western Front
96.The Shadow of the Wind
97.The Fiery Cross
98.Like Water for Chocolate
99.World Without End: Ken Follett
100.Tales of the South Pacific: James A. Michener

Starzee, since you're the only other one working on this with me, or thinking about it...is there anything that you'd like to read in January from the list with me? It'll be the BBC Top 100 choice. You don't have to, but I thought I'd see if you were interested before I just picked.

Eek..I read one that would fit and then totally forgot what book it was and where it took place.

Haha. That was what I thought you needed help with... getting all the way to the end of the obnoxious amounts of series that have like 10-20 books. =) I didn't realize you had a lot of trilogies. Although, if you use Alpha for number six and take off Rogue it still means you have to read Rogue to get to Alpha. Put book 5 of Night Huntress since it'll be out in Feb, book 4 of Chicagoland since it'll be in May... and then it gets difficult. I would def. read Clare and Estep's series. Hexbound wasn't as good as Chicagoland. Esp. since each book of Chicagoland gets better. Hmm...

I totally caved and bought it. I was going to be strong and wait for my library, but that didn't work. Starzee, you'll have to let me know if I'm going to be mad while trying to read the book. I'm worried for Rose.

Hey Shera... (don't hit me) the idea is for you to read book 1 of a series for number 1, book2 from a diff series for number 2, 3 for 3.... Does that make any sense? There's also the series challenge where you just pick series you want to finish.

Well, you can always say you just want to read 20 or them or something. Pick however many you want. There are some that I just have absolutely no interest in and others I've always wanted to read.

It makes sense. My memory is good enough that I was able to read War and Peace over a 10 year period and still remember the first few chapters. There are a few books I can reread though because sometimes the small details are what makes the book. The little things that are easily forgotten... Other times, I can't do it.

It was okay. Just don't as great as I expected.

The Truth About Forever.

Thanks for asking. I'm reading it now. I forgot it was 365. I should have picked a better book.

I have to remind myself to come back and check every now and then because I'll forget. I seemed to slow down drastically in November.

Looks like you're doing well. =)

"Living in Kentucky is a mix of the ridiculous and the sublime. The same state that is home to top-shelf research hospitals, major manufacturers, and thoroughbred horse racing is a place where you can attend a schoolbus crash-up derby. (They do take the kids off the buses before they race them.) We have Opera Houses and Opry Houses. We have cities that are home to hundreds of thousands and towns like the Hollow, where one day, if the right couple gets engaged, the entire population will be related by marriage."

I was so excited that I'd finally found a Kentucky book and I've already gotten one. Dang it.

Booth and Bones would have been great names.
MacAlister writes silly stories so they're a little crazy. Fair warning.

Hmm... I'd start changing names. =) and the fantasy spinoff

All it took was 1 line for me too, but I didn't reread it all even though I wanted to. I'm going crazy because I want to.