Friday, July 3, 2009

ABC Book Meme

ABC Book Meme

For this meme, you list a favorite book that starts with each letter of the alphabet. If you don't have a book for a letter (such as Z or X) than you can substitute a favorite book that simply has that letter in the title (ex. The Lost City of Z or Hot Six by Janet Evanovich). However, you can only do this a maximum of 3 times. (Z, X, and Q. But not Z, X, Q, and V.) Books can be of any genre from fiction to non-fiction to poetry to textbooks.

A: Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
B: Breadfruit, by Celestine Vaite
C: City of Thieves, by David Benioff
D: The Death of Ivan Ilych and other stores, by Leo Tolstoy
E: Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer
F: Frangipani, by Celestine Vaite
G: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
H: Howards End, by E.M. Forster
I: In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
J: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
K: Kaaterskill Falls, by Allegra Goodman
L: Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
M: Monumental Propaganda, by Vladimir Voinovich
N: Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
O: Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey
P: Possession, by A.S. Byatt
Q: Queen of the Oddballs, by Hillary Carlip
R: The Robber Bride, by Margaret Atwood
S: The Secret History of Moscow, by Ekaterina Sedia
T: Tomcat in Love, by Tim O'Brien
U: U and I, by Nicholson Baker
V: The Virgin in the Garden, by A.S. Byatt
W: A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson
X: The X-Files Book of the Unexplained, by Jane Goldman
Y: Yolk, by Josip Novakovich
Z: Zagat 2008 New York City Restaurants

This meme brought to you by Rebecca at Lost in Books!

2 comments:

Sandra said...

A good idea for finding some new reading recommendations. I've read City of Thieves
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Great Expectations
Never Let Me Go
Possession
I enjoyed them all. I'll definitely try The Virgin in the Garden since you like it so much. I have Alias Grace and Jane Eyre on my shelves-glad to know you they are favourites of yours. And I see a couple of names that are new to me. Celestine Vaite, Hillary Carlip, and Josip Novakovich, I'll have to look them up. Thanks.

Literary Feline said...

This is a fun meme! I'm not sure how far I'd get with it though. Jane Eyre and Everything is Illuminated are two of my favorites as well.