sparks (sparks) wrote in 50bookchallenge,
@ 2008-01-16 09:54:00

We need to get this community going! The 50 book challenge is worth it, in my opinion.

1. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut !
2. The Most Evil Women In History - Shelley Klein *
3. Hope Was Here - Joan Bauer *r
4. Naked - David Sedaris !c
5. Sula - Toni Morrison !h
6. Queen of Babble - Meg Cabbot -c
7. The Plug-In Drug - Marie Winn -ri
8. Make Lemonade - Virginia Euwer Wolff *r
9. Life Of Pi - Yann Martel !
10. The Vulnerable Child - Richard Weissbourd *ri
11. Jesus Land - Julia Scheeres !t
12. The Window - Michael Dorris *r
13. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger *
14. Pictures of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff !rt
15. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer !th
16. America - E.R. Frank *r
17. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini !t
18. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri !
19. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls !ct
20. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer !c
21. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides !
22. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen !h

Starting date: September 28
Books to date: 22
Pages to date: 5657
Average pages/book: 257

! = I would recommend this book
* = no opinion
- = I would not recommend this book
r - required for school
i - intellectual novel, not for casual readers
c - comedic
t - tearjerker
h - historical fiction

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	solar 2008-01-16 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	The Glass Castle, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, and Water for Elephants were all absolutely fantastic. In fact, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer is a book to check out also. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	solar 2008-01-16 07:04 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, and Naked. David Sedaris is one of the funniest men on the planet. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sparks 2008-01-16 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	Do you know if Jonathan Safran Foer has written anything else? I've enjoyed his writing style so much. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

solar
2008-01-17 04:58 am UTC (link)

I'm pretty sure those are his only two by himself. I do know that he wrote a book called The Fixer with Bernard Malamud & The Future Dictionary of America with a few other authors. I was iffy on checking out Malamud at first but now that I found out he has worked with Foer it's an absolute must! Foer's one of my favorites; probably because he's Jewish or because he's best friends with Natalie Portman!

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	sparks 2008-01-17 07:54 am UTC (link)
	I'll have to look into those. I was astonished by how wonderfully Foer mangled the English grammar/story-telling and how genius that makes him. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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