Alphabet of Authors' First Names

[Tweedledum]

Jean wrote: "Tweedledum - "Alan Alexander". Was that a genuine question, or were you having an "Eggheads"(TV quiz programme) moment? LOL"

No I really didn't know. So thankyou!

[Tweedledum]

Terri wrote: "D

David Wong--This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It (a totally fun read!)"

Oooh scary!

[Nicole]

G

Gail Tsukiyama read 6 of her books. Really liked:

The Samurai's Garden: A Novel and Women of the Silk

[Leslie]

H: Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

[LauraT]

F:Filippo Timi actually an actor from Perugia, the town where I live. He is quite young, but has done some very nice things both at theatre and at the cinema, and also wriote some funny things as his autobiography Tuttalpiù muoio set of course in one of our outskirts - Ponte San Giovanni - which is particularly degraded, a sort of "bronx" of our parts!!!

[Anastasia]

I: Irène Némirovsky - Suite Française (beautiful) :)

[Leslie]

J: John Jakes - The Seekers and the rest of the Kent family Chronicles...

[Nicole]

K-

Khaled Hosseini- read A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner I recommend to all!

[Kristen]

Lionel Shriver : We Need to Talk About Kevin

Very dark book but well done IMO. Creepy movie too.

[LauraT]

M Michela Murgia an italian writer from my Sardina; her best book so far Accabadora

[Leslie]

N: Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House of the Seven Gables

[Nicole]

O: Oswald Chambers - My Utmost for His Highest - Updated

[Leslie]

P: Penelope Fitzgerald - Offshore

[Nicole]

Skipping Q

R: Rafael Yglesias - A Happy Marriage

[Leslie]

S: Susanna Kaysen - Girl, Interrupted

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T: Theodore Dreiser--An American Tragedy

[Leslie]

U: Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose

Terri wrote: "T: Theodore Dreiser--An American Tragedy"

Oooh maybe that will be my next audiobook! Thanks for the reminder :)

[Anastasia]

V: Vita Sackville-West - All Passion Spent (on my TBR!)

[Leslie]

W: William Faulkner - Light In August, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying

[Tweedledum]

X
Xenophon The Persian Expedition

The bbc are currently screening a wonderful documentary about the Greeks and the relationship between theatre and democracy. You can catch part 2 on http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscree...
Part 3 will be shown on Friday I think.

[Leslie]

Y: Yves Thériault - Ways of the Flesh

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Z: Zoë Ferraris--Finding Nouf

[Leslie]

A: Alice Munro - The Moons of Jupiter

[Anastasia]

B: Brunonia Barry - The Lace Reader

[Nicole]

C: Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

[Leslie]

D: Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Tweedledum]

E Edward Ardizzone Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain

[Anastasia]

F: Friedrich von Schiller - Wilhelm Tell

[Leslie]

G: Georgette Heyer - so many!! I will put one I will be rereading soon, Cotillion.

[Leslie]

H: ?

[LauraT]

H: Harry Bernstein The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers. Read this year and loved

[Nicole]

Iain Hollingshead- Twenty Something

[Leslie]

J: Jean M. Auel - the The Clan of the Cave Bear series

[Tweedledum]

K
Kingsley Amis The Alteration

[Leslie]

L: Laurie R. King - mystery writer, one of her series is about a young woman (Mary Russell) who becomes the pupil then partner of Sherlock Holmes

[LauraT]

M Michela Murgia a writer from Sardinia

[LauraT]

Leslie wrote: "L: Laurie R. King - mystery writer, one of her series is about a young woman (Mary Russell) who becomes the pupil then partner of Sherlock Holmes"

I've found the first of the serie ...

[Leslie]

N: Nicholas Sparks - never read anything by him! Anyone know if I should?

[Erica]

O: Owen Marshall (a kiwi)

[LauraT]

P Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.

[Leslie]

Skipping Q, R: Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land

[Tweedledum]

S
Susan Howatch author of the Penmaric stories but the only book of hers I have read is this one: Glittering Images the first in a series about power and temptation in the church.

[Tweedledum]

Erica wrote: "O: Owen Marshall (a kiwi)"

Book?

[Leslie]

T: Thomas B. Costain - wrote history and historical fiction, some of the best nonfiction I have ever read was Conquering Family and the rest of his history of the Plantagenet kings.

[Anastasia]

U: Ugo Foscolo - Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

[LauraT]

V: Vasily Grossman - Life and Fate great book, a bit tough though ...

[Leslie]

W: William Golding - Lord of the Flies

[Tweedledum]

X
Xavier Herbert Poor Fellow My Country

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Y: Yeri Na--Do Whatever You Want: Volume 5

[LauraT]

Z: Zora Neale Hurston- Their Eyes Were Watching God. We've read this not long ago ...