Wednesday, December 5, 2007

A "Few" Good Books; Our Mass Collaboration


I admit it--I'm compulsive, or I wouldn't be a librarian. I couldn't leave well enough alone and just had to go through your comments on the Looking for a Few Good Books post and put everything in alphabetical order. Here they are--all 68 titles (so far) that we recommended to each other. If you want to read the original comment, I have included the name of the person who recommended the book. Just go to Looking for a Few Good Books and scroll down to the comments section.

-Baker: Mezzanine (Benjamin)
-Barry: History of the Millennium (So Far) (brassring)
-Beyond Brokeback; the Impact of a Film (j)
-The Bible (j)
-Bin Laden: Inside the Kingdom (photokeeper)
-Blight: A Slave No More; Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (Anonymous/JL)
-Boonshaft: Teaching Music with Passion (brassring)
-Box: Books featuring the character Joe Pickett [Savage Run, Trophy Hunt, for example] (photokeeper)
-Brashares: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (jacksonrnnr)
-Brown: I'm Just Here for the Food (Benjamin)
-Colbert: I am America (and So Can You) (clairz)
-Counselor: Wild, Woolly, and Wonderful (lin)--This book is out of print. Ask your librarian for a copy. Note: Lin originally posted the title for this book over on La Casa de Towanda. Because she is living off the grid and has electricity for just a short time each day, I was glad to copy and paste it here for her.
-Crystal: Seven Hundred Sundays (ameriaussie)
-Dante: The Divine Comedy (brassring)
-Denton (editor) : Plays and Playwrights 2006 (Benjamin)
-Diaz: Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (clairz)
-Dyer: Real Magic (brassring)
-Enright: The Gathering (clairz)
-Esquith: Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire (This title was recommended twice--by Anonymous/jl and clairz)
-Feinstein: Winter Games (b)
-Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love (Anonymous/JL)
-Greenlaw: Slipknot (brassring)
-Gruen: Water for Elephants (ameriaussie)
-Horgan: Rational Mysticism, Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment (j)
-Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns (clairz)
-Iggulden: Dangerous Book for Boys (clairz)
-IIibagiza: Left to Tell; Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan (Anonymous/jl )
-Joyce: Ulysses (b)
-Junge: Until the Final Hour (jacksonrnnr)
-Kakalios: Physics of Superheroes (Benjamin)
-King: Cell (brassring)
-King: Lisey's Story (brassring)
-Kitchell: Coyote Speaks (j)
-Kitchell: Get a God (j)
-Kitchell: God's (j)
-Kline: Shock Doctrine (S)
-The Koran (j)
-Kuo: Tempting Faith, An Inside Story of Political Seduction (j)
-Lao Tsu: Tao Te Ching [available online] (brassring)
-Mabry: Twice as Good: Condoleeza Rice and Her Path to Power (b)
-Mahoney: Down the Nile; Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff (Anonymous/jl)
-McCarthy: No Country for Old Men (b)
-McKay: Saffy's Angel (brassring)
-Miller: The Crucible (j)
-Montgomery: The Good, Good Pig (photokeeper)
-Moore: Lamb (S)
-Obeidi: The Bomb in My Garden (photokeeper)
-Ohler: What Next (ridin' geeky)
-Oliver: Why I Wake Early (j)
-Pica: Jump into Literacy (ameriaussie)
-Pratt: Radical Hospitality; Benedict's Way of Love (j)
-Preston: The Wild Trees; a Story of Passion and Daring (Anonymous/jl)
-Pullman: Golden Compass (jacksonrnnr)
-Saunders: The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil (jacksonrnnr)
-Schultz: 1000 Places to See Before You Die (jacksonrnnr)
-Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty Some Day (Benjamin)
-Sedaris: Naked (Benjamin)
-Taleb: Black Swan;Impact of the Highly Improbable (clairz)
-Tapscott: Wikinomics; How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (clairz)
-Tolstoy: War and Peace (brassring)
-Toole: Confederacy of Dunces (ridin' geeky)
-Tracy: Eat That Frog (Anonymous/jl)
-Troost: The Sex Lives of Cannibals (jacksonrnnr)
-Tsukiyama: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (ameriaussie)
-Twitchell: Shopping for God; How Christianity Went from in Your Heart to in Your Face (b)
-Ung: First They Killed My Father (jacksonrnnr)
-Walter: The Zero (ridin' geeky)
-Weiner: Legacy of Ashes; the History of the CIA (b)

1 comment:

Lin said...

Clairz, thanks for putting up the "Wild, Woolly and Wonderful" title for me! I wish it weren't such a pricey out-of-print book to own. Thank God for librarians!