Nomination lists

[whichwaydidshego, the sage of sass]

We nominate currently from the Original WB List of Rory's books. Below the list is separated into the modern half of the list and the classics half of the list. To be sure you are not nominating something we have already read as a group, please look at the thread entitled "Monthly Book Selections" also in this folder. Thank you.

[whichwaydidshego, the sage of sass]

Modern:

• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
• Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
• Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Brick Lane by Monica Ali
• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• Extravagance by Gary Krist
• Fat Land by Greg Critser
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
• How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
• How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
• Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen
• Old School by Tobias Wolff
• Oracle Night by Paul Auster
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Property by Valerie Martin
• Quattrocento by James McKean
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
• Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
• Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
• Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
• Small Island by Andrea Levy
• Songbook by Nick Hornby
• Stiff by Mary Roach
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
• The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
• The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
• The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
• Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
• Unless by Carol Shields
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire

[whichwaydidshego, the sage of sass]

Classics:

• 1984 by George Orwell
• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
• Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• On The Road by Jack Kerouac
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos by Julia De Burgos
• Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
• Sybil by Flora Schreiber
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Time and Again by Jack Finney
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray