a list that looks back - part 1
Feb. 21st, 2006 07:47 pmFiction:
* "A Short History of a Small Place" A
"The Praise Singer" B,f
* "Alfie" B
"The Portable Voltaire" T
* "Debt to Pleasure" B
"Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" T
"Mr. Impossible" A,r,f
"How I Became Stupid" T
* "Breakfast at Tiffany's" A
* "Diary of a Provincial Lady" B,f
"Snobs" B, a
"The Big Sleep" A
"The Annotated Wizard of Oz" A,j
- "Titus Groan" B,sf
* "A High Wind in Jamaica" B
* "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" A,f
- "Quicksilver" A,sf
"The Clothes They Stood Up In" B
"Fahrenheit 451" A,sf
"Match Me If You Can" A,r,f
* "August Folly" B,f
"My Name Is Red" T
"Little Children" A
* "Ragtime" A
"Turing" A,sf
"风满楼" f
* "The Best of Everything" A,f
Non-fiction:
* "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" l
"Fermat's Enigma" s
"Theory of Moves" s
"Against the Gods" s
* "Life Stories: profiles from the New Yorker" p
"So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star" p
* "The Polysyllabic Spree" l
"Ask the Pilot" s
* "Stand Before Your God" p
"Happiness" s
* ""Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"" p,s
"The Virtuosi" p
"The Path to Rome" l,t
"Travels With Charley" l,t
"Reading Lolita in Tehran" l
"Freakonomics" s
"Mr. China" p,s
- "How To Dunk A Doughnut" s
"The Lost Painting" p,a
A:american; B:british; f:female; T:translated; j:juvenile; sf:sci-fi; r:romance; p:memoir; l:literary; t:travel; a:audio; s:non-lit; *:recommended
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