Alphabet of Authors' Last Names

[Leslie]

U: John Updike - contemporary author; I have read The Witches of Eastwick and a couple of his Rabbit books

[Amber]

Skipping V

W:Gene Wilder-I've read the books My French Whore
Something to Remember You By: A Perilous Romance
Woman Who Wouldn't

[Nicole]

Skipping X

William P. Young Read The Shack Would not recommend

[Eliana]

V: Kurt Vonnegut

I've read: Player Piano (my favorite!), Mother Night, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Slaughterhouse-Five Cat's Cradle, and the short story collection: Welcome to the Monkey House

X: Xenophon

I've read: The Persian Expedition and Apology of Socrates

[Leslie]

Next should be Z! Thanks Eliana for filling in the gaps!

[Alannah]

Z

Markus Zusak Read The Book Thief.

[Leslie]

A: Louisa May Alcott

Read Little Women, Little Men

[Amber]

Little women is a pretty good read. :-)
B
Clive Barker - I've read The Thief of Always The Hellbound HeartBooks of Blood, Vols. 1-3Abarat Days of Magic, Nights of WarMister B. GoneColdheart CanyonSacrament Absolute Midnight

[LauraT]

C
Wilkie Collins - read a lot of his books, famous such as The Woman In White, The Moonstone, No Name or less renown as After Dark, The Fallen Leaves, Jezebel's Daughter ...

[Leslie]

D: Dorothy Dunnett --

I have read both her historical fiction and a few of her mysteries. Strongly recommend the historical fiction, try Niccolo Rising

[LauraT]

Leslie wrote: "D: Dorothy Dunnett --

I have read both her historical fiction and a few of her mysteries. Strongly recommend the historical fiction, try Niccolo Rising"

Ok, I'll put this on my list as well... I'll have to live at least till 150 if I want to finish all the books you've suggested me!

E: George Eliot
One of my favourite woman writer, no one of my favourite author ever. She wrote some of the best books of victorian literature:Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, The Mill on the Floss - which I didn't like so much as some others - and many many more ...

[Dhanaraj]

F. Dario Fo - Read his play Abducting Diana recently and liked it.

[LauraT]

Dhanaraj wrote: "F. Dario Fo - Read his play Abducting Diana recently and liked it."

I think his works are definitly better on stage than reading on paper. Have you seen Mistero buffo. Giullarata popolare? He's great there. And it can also been appreciated by who can't understand italian: most of it is in "gramelot", an invented language of his which mixes italian, latin and several dialects of Lombardia. You have to "see" him to understand, but after that you never forget.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVg42...

[LauraT]

G: Elizabeth Gaskell
Great woman writer, North and South and Wives and Daughters my favourites

[Amber]

H:
Thomas Harris
I've read: The Silence of the LambsHannibalHannibal Rising
Red Dragon:

[Dhanaraj]

@ Laura T: I already understood that Fo's plays are more for performance than for reading and I had noted it down in my review of
Abducting Diana. And I have not seen any of his plays and I will check out the youtube link later. Thanks for the link.

[LauraT]

Dhanaraj wrote: "@ Laura T: I already understood that Fo's plays are more for performance than for reading and I had noted it down in my review of
Abducting Diana. And I have not seen any of his pla..."

Now he's too old to be much on stage, but I've seen him several times - as you'll see on youtube he was also a lot on "teaching" meeting in universities or theaters.
His son lives not far from here, in Santa Cristina di Gubbio where he runs an "agriturismo" - a place you stay to sleep or eat with most of their agricoltural products. He often organises courses there - the name of the place is "The free University of Alcatraz" - and really often his father was performing there.
http://www.alcatraz.it/index.php/engl...

[Dhanaraj]

@Laura T, How I envy you? It is true that in life some get all the gifts possible. Lol....

[Eliana]

I: Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day is a quiet, brilliant masterpiece. Never Let Me Go is a disturbing, dystopian tale. And The Unconsoled is a weird, disorienting story that didn't work for me at all.

[Eliana]

LauraT wrote: "Dhanaraj wrote: "F. Dario Fo - Read his play Abducting Diana recently and liked it."

I think his works are definitly better on stage than reading on paper. Have you seen [book:Miste..."

Oooh! Thanks for the link. I wish there were an archive of fabulous theatrical performances, even just excerpts, to give some better feeling for playwrights whose work can best be appreciated in production. Some plays (Arthur Miller's for example) are very accessible to readers...but there are others I suspect I wouldn't love as much if I hadn't seen productions... even shows from over 30 years ago echo in my mind when I reread the scripts.

But I have experienced something similar when all I've seen is a single scene... somehow that glimpse can give the key to the rest of the play.

What a very long-winded way to say 'thank you!'

[Leslie]

J: James Joyce -- read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man & Ulysses. The first is definitely easier reading!

[LauraT]

K: Stephen King
Only read Hearts in Atlantis even if it one of the favourite author of both my husband and son. Planning next year to read 11/22/63

P.S. You're welcome Eliana. Dario Fo is one of my love and I do agree, theater should be more represented on line

[Nicole]

L: C.S. Lewis I have only read Till We Have Faces but plan on reading much more of him in the future.

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M: Tahereh Mafi

- Author of one of my favourite YA series. I have read Shatter Me and Unravel Me, as well as the novella Destroy Me. I am counting the days until the final part of the trilogy, Ignite Me is released (66 days!) and until the novella Fracture Me is released (17 days!).

[Eliana]

N: Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet. I've read some of his poetry: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems, The Hands of Day, World's End, and a collection of his prose: Passions and Impressions

[Alannah]

O:

Helen Oyeyemi

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P: Stephanie Perkins

I have read Anna and the French Kiss and Lola and the Boy Next Door. Both excellent reads :)

[Leslie]

author with the last name starting with Q or R??

[Eliana]

Q: Thomas de Quincey best known for Confessions of an English Opium Eater, which is fascinating, but I prefer some of his other essays.

[LauraT]

R: Miss Read I LOVE her books, such as Village Affairs

[Leslie]

S: Dorothy L. Sayers -- one of my favorite mystery writers! As a teenager, I had a crush on her detective Lord Peter Whimsey! I think that is why I don't like the last few books as much - he meets & falls in love with someone else :(

LauraT wrote: "R: Miss Read I LOVE her books, such as Village Affairs"

Ha ha ha! I just got the 3rd Fairacre book from the library, Storm In The Village.

[LauraT]

Lovley that one!!!

[Eliana]

T: Marina Tsvetaeva I've owned her Selected Poems for several years, but only read a few of them. ...finally this year I read through the whole collection, and was delighted!

[Leslie]

U: Maia Underwood - never read her...

[Leslie]

W: Oscar Wilde - one of my favorite playwrights...

Pia wrote: "V: Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days"

How did you like that? I was a bit disappointed by Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

[Leslie]

Y: William Butler Yeats

[Eliana]

Z: Stefan Zweig

[Maggie]

B: Emily Brontë

[Leslie]

C: Catherine Coulter -- read a bunch of her FBI series...

[Leslie]

next should be an author whose last name starts with D...

[Amber]

D:Charles Dickens-A Christmas Carol

[LauraT]

E: T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets; The Waste Land; Murder in the Cathedral

[Leslie]

F: Robert Frost - association of ideas, since Laura played a poet :) The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

[Tweedledum]

G. Elizabeth Goudge
Just finished The Bird in the Tree
A beautiful lyrical writer.

[Leslie]

H: Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf, etc.

[Tweedledum]

I
Henrik Ibsen I've read A Doll's House

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J
Henry James--The Turn of the Screw

[LauraT]

K: Franz Kafka: The Trial

[Leslie]

L: Doris Lessing - currently reading The Golden Notebook

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M: Haruki Murakami--1Q84