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Last Updated:
June 25, 2004
Enjoyable Books
(Categories:
Art, Children's,
Fiction, Humor,
Non-fiction, Politics,
SciFi, Travel,)
Grade |
Title |
Author |
Category |
Comments |
9 |
Portrait in Sepia | Allende, Isabel | F |
great storytelling contd. |
9 |
Burning Marguerite | Innis-Brown, Elizabeth | F |
beautiful, love&loss+ |
9 |
Small Wonder | Kingsolver, Barbara | N |
essays |
9 |
Life of Pi | Martel, Yann | F |
surreal, man & tiger on boat |
9 |
Leaving Mother Lake | Namu, Yang Erche + Mathieu | N,T |
Moso Chinese matri-lineal culture, Autobio. |
9 |
Bel Canto | Patchett, Ann | F |
opera, hostages, Peru?, love, satire |
| 9- |
Feast of Love | Baxter, Charles | F |
Michigan |
9- |
River Town | Hessler, Peter | T |
Chin |
| 9- |
Secret Life of Bees | Kidd, Sue Monk | F |
2 runaways, South, beekeeper sisters, |
9- |
Folly | King, Laurie | F |
NW psych.mystery |
9- |
Namesake | Lahiri, J | F |
Indian boy/teen in US |
9- |
Mother Dance | Lerner, Harriet | N |
Mothering |
9- |
Stupid White Men | Moore, Michael | H/P |
too real |
9- |
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood | Wells, Rebecca | F |
Friends |
8+ |
Reading Lolita in Tehran | Nafisi, Azar | N |
Oppression of Women, Power of Literature, Iran |
8+ |
Sixpence House | Collins, Paul | N/T |
Humorous attempt to join booksellers, Wales |
8+ |
Regeneration | Barker, Pat | F |
war psychiatrist |
8+ |
Opposite of Fate | Tan, Amy | N |
A/musing, family, writer's struggles |
8+ |
Earth Moved | Stewart, Amy | N |
Earthworms, Darwin, Gardening |
8+ |
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Chabon, Thomas | F |
Comic book creation, NY, anti-Nazi |
8+ |
Hours, the | Cunningham, Michael | F |
V. Woolf +2 modern women |
8+ |
Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress | Dai, Sijie | F |
Chinese, magic of lit. |
8+ |
Tale of Murasaki | Dalby, Lisa | F |
Japanese courts, poems |
8+ |
Nickel and Dimed | Ehrenreich, Barbara | N |
low income jobs |
8+ |
Swift as Desire | Esquivel, Laura | F |
modern fable |
8+ |
Monk Downstairs | Farrington, Tim | F |
San Francisco Love Story |
8+ |
Bridget Jones – Edge of Reason | Fielding, Helen | H/F |
Light Fiction, Love |
8+ |
Flight of the Maidens | Gardam, Jane | F |
Yorkshire 3 pre-college women, 1946 |
8+ |
Kissing the Virgin’s Mouth | Gershten, Donna | F |
Latina |
8+ |
Orchid Fever (not Thief) | Hansen, Eric | N |
orchid collectors etc. |
8+ |
Round Ireland with a Fridge | Hawks, Tony | H/T |
Goofy Travel |
8+ |
Sea Biscuit | Hillenbrand, Laura | F |
Horse, underdog,dreams, SF & US early 1900s |
8+ |
She’s Come Undone | Lamb, Wally | F |
survivor, healing, love |
8+ |
Piano Tuner | Mason, Daniel | F |
1st trip to Burma 19thc |
8+ |
Book Borrower | Mattison, Alice | F |
2 tales, womenfriends, trollies, anarchist |
8+ |
Take Me With You | Newsham, Brad | T |
Intl. Travel -Asia, Africa etc. |
8+ |
Dive from Clausen’s Pier | Packer, Ann | F |
Intense, love |
8+ |
Botany of Desire | Pollan, Michael | N |
Plants |
8+ |
Primate’s Memoir | Sapolsky, R | N/T |
Baboons+ |
8+ |
Lovely Bones | Sebold, Alice | F |
unusual |
8+ |
It’s Only Too Late If You Don’t Start Now | Sher, Barbara | S |
Do It! |
8+ |
White Teeth | Smith, Zoe | F |
London Inter-Racial Families |
8+ |
Down to a Soundless Sea | Steinbeck, Thomas | F |
Big Sur tales |
8+ |
Driving Over Lemons | Stewart, Chris | T |
Spain, living in countryside |