NominationsList: A List of Books Nominated, but not yet selected for
reading and
discussion: Very randomly recorded:
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from 2007
Jan 2007 - Jan 21
17 13 The End of
Faith Sam Harris
10 The March
E L Doctorow
1 The God
Delusion Richard Dawkins
10 3 My Sister's
Keeper Jody Picoult
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Feb 2007 Feb 11
9 9 The March
E L Doctorow
5 Snow
Orhan Pamuk
3 Just above my
Head James Baldwin
11 6 White Teeth
Zadie Smith
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Nominations for March 2007 March 11
3 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
7 3 Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrow
17 11 Snow
Orhan Pamuk
2 The History of
Everything Bill Bryson
Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure
(Paperback) and seems to have been published in 1975-06-01.
Here's a bit of a description:
From the Publisher
This vivid diary of life in a Japanese internment camp during World War
II examines the moral challenges encountered in conditions of
confinement and deprivation.
About the Author
Langdon Gilkey was a young American teacher at Yenching University near
Peking, China, when the Japanese military under wartime pressure
rounded up all foreigners into an internment camp. Two and a half years
later they were released. Shantung Compound is based on a journal Dr.
Gilkey kept during his imprisonment.
The Faith Club by
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April 22
9 7 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
6 5 The Worst Hard Time by Timothy
Egan
5 Shantung Compound: The Story of
Men and Women Under Pressure (Paperback) by Langdon Gilkey
3 Julian by Gore Vidal
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May Nomination
3 Shantung Compound: The Story of
Men and Women Under Pressure (Paperback) by Langdon Gilkey
5 YeYe's House by Evelina Chow
6 4 The Year of Magical Thinking by
Joan Didion
4 The Worst Hard Time by Timothy
Egan
3 O Henry Prize Stories 2006
7 8 The History of Everything by
Bill Bryson
June Nominations
4 Will Eisner
Contract With God
8 8 Daniel
Woodrell Winter's Bone
8 9 6 Elif
Shafar The Bastard of Istanbul
17 12 Kurt
Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five
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from 2006
Nominations for January 2006
5 2 Off Center : The Republican
Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy by Jacob S. Hacker,
Paul Pierson
2 Stiffed : The Betrayal of the
American Man by Susan Faludi (Paperback)
10 8 Aging Well by George Vaillant
3 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
February Nominations
6 Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar
Nafisi
13 10 The Blind Watchmaker by
Richard Dawkins
7 5 White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Nominations for March 12 2006
March 12 Book
12 8 Collapse by Jared Diamond
2 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
16 10 Reading Lolita in Tehran by
Azar Nafisi
6 Stiffed by Susan Faludi
April nominations 23rd @
11 8 Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
9 7 Plot against America Philip Roth
7 White Teeth Zadie Smith
4 Julius Caesar William Shakespeare
May Nominations
9 5 White Teeth
Zadie Smith
11 6 Collapse
Jared Diamond
2 Plot against America Philip Roth
Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
June Nominations
14 9 Philip Roth
The Plot Against America
9 6 Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
6 Michael Walzer
Just and Unjust Wars
July Nominations
6 1 Jane Jacobs
Life and Death in American Cities
5 Michael Walzer
Just and Unjust Wars
Henry James The
Awkward Age
12 9 John
Steinbeck Cannery Row
August
Mark Twain The
Gilded Age
September
Books suggested from various sources for nominations:
let me recommend, A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional
Life Among the Baboons by Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford professor and
Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach,
another San Francisco Bay Area author. Both were
excellent and written in a lively and witty style.
Linda Brown
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The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the
Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by Thomas L. Friedman
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374292795/sr=1-1/qid=1154191752/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-6529627-4387254?ie=UTF8&s=books
Rebecca Pawel
Death of a Nationalist
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1569473447/ref=cm_plog_item_link/002-6529627-4387254?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
Naomi Ragen
http://www.naomiragen.com
September Nominations
5 The World Is
Flat Thomas Friedman
4 Dark Continent
Mark Mazower
10 10 Just and Unjust
Wars Michael Walzer
9 8 Wild Grass
Ian Johnson
8 Saturday
Ian McEwan
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October Nominations
9 5 Snowflower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See
8 6 Wild Grass
Ian Johnson
5 Fathers and
Sons Ivan Turgenev
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November Nominations 26th
15 10 The
Stranger Albert
Camus
5 The Dress
Lodger Sherruy Holman
14 7 Driving Mr
Albert Miachael Paterniti
Never Let Me Go
Isuguru
The March
E L Doctorow
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from 2005
Nominations
for Sept 18th
6 7 Lily Tuck Siam
4 Nadine Gordimer July’s People
4 The End of Poverty: Economic
Possibilities for Our Time (Hardcover)
by Jeffrey Sachs "It is still midmorning in Malawi when we arrive at a
small village, Nthandire,
11 8 Thomas Frank
What’s the Matter With Kansas
3 Joyce Carol
Oates The Falls
2 Bruce Murkuff
Water Born
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Nominations for Oct 23
16 15 Carlos
Fuentes Old Gringo
8 George Valient
Aging Well
7 Caryl Phillip
Distant Shore
10 9 Nadine
Gordimer July’s People
Nominations for Nov
4 My Traders Heart by Ryan Milan
8 6 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
15 11 Angels and Insects by A S
Byatt
7 Waterborne by Bruce Murkoff
Nominations for Dec
Author
Pinter, Harold, 1930-
Title
Celebration ; &, The room / Harold Pinter.
Published
London : Faber, 2000.
cf random house and modern library and counter culture 100 best novels
of 20th c (top several were Ayn Rand books)
Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny & criticism by Shaun Carroll
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Sunday, February 27, 2005 16:19:56
11 6 John Steineck Cannery Row
15 16 Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man
2 James Bradley Flyboys
7 Monica Ali Brick Lane
7 Hunter Thompson Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
BookClub Ideas
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/
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Nominations
Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman
Explorer in Tibet, China, and Mongolia 1921-1925 by Mabel
Cabot
[[[The Vanished Kingdom: Travels Through the
History of Prussia by James Charles Roy, Roy (Paperback)
Vanished Kingdoms: Irish in Australia and New
Zealand by Patrick O'Farrell ]]]
Same Sex Unions in PreModern Europe by John Boswell
The Fortress of Solitude : A
Novel by JONATHAN LETHEM
7 3 Everythiing is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Not yet Nominated, but mentioned
The Dress Lodger
(Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Sheri Holm
The Death and Life of Great
American Cities -- by Jane Jacobs
Hidden : A Novel by
Paul Jaskunas
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
by Lorna Landvik
http://www.randomhouse.com/BB/read/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0-345-44282-2
and its reading guide:
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0345472098&view=rg
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Sunday, November 14, 2004 15:42:50
for January 30
3 Flatland by Abbott
11 12 The Great Influenza by John M Barry
15 4 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark
Haddon
3 Corporate Warriors by P W Singer
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Sunday, December 12, 2004 16:46:57
nominations for February
13 9 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
13 12 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
8 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
7 Reporting the Universe by E L Doctorow
Augustan Magical Thinking;
E L Doctorow Reporting the Universe a work related to our
memories of favorite childhood books and reading; a politics and
metaphysic of our nation, a perceptive recall of some of our greatest
literature. a paperback now