Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Literature: Biggles

{edit} This list covers the whole year, not just the next six weeks!

In addition to our Gileskirk discussion titles:

Silas Marner, by George Eliot
Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Book of the Dun Cow, by Walter Wangerin
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexandre Solzhenitzen

I'm adding:
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (finished in August)
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
The Complete Father Brown Mysteries, by G.K. Chesterton
The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan

I'm pre-reading the following to evaluate their appropriateness:
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, translated and abridged by Walter Starkie (as recommended in Honey for a Woman's Heart)
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackery
Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy

Any other suggestions?

Literature: Middles

{edit} This covers ideas for the whole year, not just the next six weeks!

The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Pilgrim's Inn, by Elizabeth Goudge
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madelaine L'Engle
The Good Master and The Singing Tree, by Kate Seredy
Good-bye, Mr. Chips, by James Hilton
How Green Was My Valley, by Richard Llewellyn
An Episode of the Sparrow, by Rumer Godden
The Book of Three, by Alexander Lloyd

Additional ideas, not in any particular order:
Many Moons, by James Thurber
Indian in the Cupboard, by Lynne Reid Banks
Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell
Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank Gilbraith and Ernestine Carey
A Means of Grace, by Edith Pargeter
"A Modest Proposal" and Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana
Mama's Bank Account, by Kathryn Forbes

Literature: Littles

Eliza:
Island Boy, by Barbara Cooney
Babar and His Children, by Jean de Brunhoff
Mr. Popper's Penguins, by Richard Atwater
The Complete Tales, by Beatrix Potter

Melody:
Winnie the Pooh, by A. A. Milne
The Saturdays, by Elizabeth Enright
Favorite Animal Stories, by Thornton Burgess

More ideas for the future, in no particular order:
Yellow and Pink, by William Steig
The Little House books, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Twenty-One Balloons, by William Pène du Bois
Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden
Miss Pickerell books, by Ellen MacGregor
The Complete Peterkin Papers, by Lucretia P. Hale
Roller Skates, by Ruth Sawyer
Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink
What Katy Did, by Susan Coolidge
Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling
Heidi, by Joanna Spyri
Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame