The attached list (PDF) contains recommended memoirs for 1st Quarter (honors) or 1st semester (non-honors). There are thousands of memoirs out there, so if there is something that youw ant to read that is not on this list, lease just let me know. Email me the name of the book and the author (following email protocol) for approval. Towards the end of 1st quarter (honors) and shortly after 1st quarter (non honors), you will give a brief presentation to the class on your reading.
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Post your recommendations and rants here.This is my all-time favorite of the recommendation web sites. You can easily create an account, input books you've read, find others who've liked the same books, join a group, post your recommendations . . . or rants. A wonderful, wonderful site for all readers. NY Times Bestseller List (I've specifically linked to their YA Bestseller list, but you can easily navigate to best selling fiction, non-fiction, e-reader, and paperback lists. Always up to date. Here is the Modern Library's list of top 100 classics. You just can't go wrong here (except maybe by trying Ulysses (#1) without a professor and maybe some Dublin ale to get you through. Missing from this list though is all the great classic chick lit: anything by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, or George Eliot; I don't recall Charles Dickens either. Bah! Find another Classics list. |
BooksThis blog is going to be all about books: books to read, books we have read, books you want to read. I will provide you with some good recommendation sites, as well as some of my own recommendations (either books I enjoyed or those I know that students have really enjoyed). I am also encouraging you to post comments. You can comments on book recommendations of mine, but what I'm really hoping is that you'll post your own favorites on here! Enjoy. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway Archives
August 2014
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