I'm in a popular fiction class, and I need to pick one book out of each of the following categories to read. Help me out!
Book Genre
(timeframe it was published)
Historical Fiction
(Before 1981)
Westerns
(1981-1999)
Mystery / Detective Fiction
(After 1999)
Adventure
(Before 1981)
Romances
(1981-1999)
Science Fiction
(After 1999)
Fantasy
(Before 1981)
Horror
(1981-1999)
Christian Reading
(After 2000)
Comics
Any 3 (preferably one from each time period)
Tabloids
Any 2 current ones
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I'm already thinking about "Ragtime," "Blood Meridian" or "Lonesome Dove," and "Sin City" (reading now already!) or "Watchmen" (read already)...
So far,
ReplyDeleteHF - Ragtime, The Egyptian
West - All the Pretty Horses
Mys - Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone
Rom - Zane, Eric Jerome Dickey, or Ashley & Jaquavius, or Noire
Sci-Fi after 1999:
ReplyDeleteAltered Carbon - noirish, far-future, extreme violence, extreme sex.
Spaceman Blues - great, great book. One of my favorites. But very arty, very post modern. Likes to meander, but in a fun way and with lovely language.
Girl in Landscape (1999, so don't know if it counts) - J. Lethem, so you know it's good! Coming of age story about a preteen girl on an alien planet. Kind of a Western in space.
Sci - Children of Men
ReplyDeleteRomance - The Notebook
ReplyDeleteComix
ReplyDeleteY: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan
You probably already have Comic's filled but Persepolis is a good one that you might not have heard of: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9516.The_Story_of_a_Childhood
ReplyDeleteMystery: I used to love "The Cat who.." books.
Historical Fiction: The Good Earth
Thanks, Liz! I saw "The Good Earth" on a few "best of" lists too... why are historical fiction books so long?
ReplyDeleteAnd I always wondered if Persepolis was good. I heard about it from the movie... which I did not see.
ReplyDeletePersepolis was short but good.
ReplyDeleteThe Good Earth is one I read to read with my brother-in-law because it was on his summer reading list but he didn't want to discuss the book with me :( BUT I loved the book anyway. It's actually a short read.
Another historical read is "The girl with the pearl earring". They did a movie of it but I haven't seen it yet. I'm not usually a fan of books turned into movies anyhow.
For Christian Reading, I'd say "Blue Like Jazz" by Donald Miller is a good one or "Velvet Elvis" by Rob Bell.
ReplyDelete-Katie Beckmann