ÿþ<html> <head> </head> <title>Classics & Cheese - Intelligent Discussion about Books, Movies, and TV</title> <body BGCOLOR="#C0C0C0" LINK="maroon" VLINK="maroon" ALINK="maroon"> <body> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" width="61%"> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.classicsandcheese.com/index.html"><img src="http://www.classicsandcheese.com/graphics/Logo.gif" border="0" /></a></div> </td> <td align="right" valign="top" width="39%"> <div align="right"><a href="http://www.classicsandcheese.com/index.html"><img src="/graphics/dragon1.gif" border="0" /></a></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr width="100%" /> <p><br /> <span style="color: #000000; font-size: large;">Recently Read Books<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"...The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing."</i><br /> - "Franny and Zooey" J.D. Salinger<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <table border="5"> <tbody> <tr> <td size="5" color="#000000" align="center" width="50%"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Fiction</span></b></span></td> <td size="5" color="#000000" align="center" width="50%"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Non-Fiction</span></b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td size="3" color="#000000" align="left"> <B>Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter</b> - Tom Franklin<br> <b>Major Pettigrew's Last Stand</b> - Helen Simonson<br> <b>The Fixer </b>- Bernard Malamud<br /> <b>The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society </b>- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows<br /> <b>The Imperfectionists </b>- Tom Rachman<br /> <b>Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet</b> - Jamie Ford<br /> <b>The Help</b> - Kathryn Stockett<br> <b>The Falcon Killer</b> - L. Ron Hubbard<br /> <b>Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant</b> - Anne Tyler<br /> <b>Pride and Prejudice</b> - Jane Austen<br /> <b>The Stranger</b> - Albert Camus<br /> <b>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</b> - Mark Twain<br /> <b>The Lost Symbol</b> - Dan Brown<br /> <b>Short Girls</b> - Bich Minh Nguyen<br /> <b>The Water Method Man</b> - John Irving<br /> <b>The House on Mango Street</b> - Sandra Cisneros<br /> <b>The Thirteenth Tale</b> - Diane Setterfield<br /> <b>Watchmen</b> - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons<br /> <b>The Last Theorem</b> - Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl<br /> <b>The Reader</b> - Bernhard Schlink<br /> <b>Call of the Wild</b> - Jack London<br /> <b>Deja Dead</b> - Kathy Reichs<br /> <b>Hercules: The Wrath of Poseidon</b> - John Gregory Betancourt<br /> <b>My Gun Is Quick</b> - Mickey Spillane<br /> <b>Brides of the Impaler</b> - Edward Lee<br /> <b>I, The Jury</b> - Mickey Spillane<br /> <b>A Streetcar Named Expire: <i>A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery</i></b> - Mary Daheim<br /> <b>Any Given Doomsday</b> - Lori Handeland<br /> <b>The Genesis Machine</b> - James P. Hogan<br /> <b>The Tragedy of Richard III</b> - William Shakespeare<br /> <b>The Grays</b> - Whitley Strieber<br /> <b>Animal Farm</b> - George Orwell<br /> <b>Skinny Dip</b> - Carl Hiaasen<br /> <b>Congo</b> - Michael Crichton<br /> <b>Digital Fortress</b> - Dan Brown<br /> <b>Heart-Shaped Box</b> - Joe Hill<br /> <b>The Colorado Kid</b> - Stephen King<br /> <b>A Canticle For Leibowitz</b> - Walter M. Miller, Jr.<br /> <b>The Book Thief</b> - Markus Zusak<br /> <b>Area 51</b> - Robert Doherty<br /> <b>Wither</b> - J. G. Passarella<br /> <b>Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West</b> - Gregory Maguire<br /> <b>Cell</b> - Stephen King<br /> <b>Fahrenheit 451</b> - Ray Bradbury<br /> <b>Sunshine</b> - Robin McKinley<br /> <b>A Scanner Darkly</b> - Philip K. Dick<br /> <b>Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence: After the Long Goodbye</b> - Masaki Yamada<br /> <b>The Princess Bride</b> - William Goldman<br /> <b>The Historian</b> - Elizabeth Kostova<br /> <b>From A Buick 8</b> - Stephen King<br /> <b>Mary, Queen of France</b> - Jean Plaidy<br /> <b>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</b> - Philip K. Dick<br /> <b>Memoirs of a Geisha</b> - Arthur Golden<br /> <b>Franny and Zooey</b> - J. D. Salinger<br /> <b>Warrior Queen</b> - Alan Gold<br /> <b>Lolita</b> - Vladimir Nabokov<br /> <b>Night In The Lonesome October</b> - Richard Laymon<br /> <b>Low Red Moon</b> - Caitlin R. Kiernan<br /> <b>The Mists of Avalon</b> - Marion Zimmer Bradley<br /> <b>Deception Point</b> - Dan Brown<br /> <b>Still Life With Woodpecker</b> - Tom Robbins<br /> <b>The House of the Seven Gables</b> - Nathaniel Hawthorne<br /> <b>The Lord of the Flies</b> - William Golding<br /> <b>I, Robot</b> - Isaac Asimov<br /> <b>Lady Chatterley's Lover</b> - D.H. Lawrence<br /> <b>lost boy lost girl</b> - Peter Straub<br /> <b>Belinda</b> - Anne Rice<br /> <b>Slob</b> - Rex Miller<br /> <b>The Great Gatsby</b> - F. Scott Fitzgerald<br /> <b>Cat's Eye</b> - Margaret Atwood<br /> <b>Threshold</b> - Caitlin R. Kiernan<br /> <b>The Da Vinci Code</b> - Dan Brown<br /> <b>The Bell Jar</b> - Sylvia Plath<br /> <b>Ethan Frome</b> - Edith Wharton<br /> <b>'Salem's Lot</b> - Stephen King<br /> <b>The Haunting of Hill House</b> - Shirley Jackson<br /> <b>Mystery</b> - Peter Straub<br /> <b>The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty</b> - Anne Rice<br /> <b>Angels and Demons</b> - Dan Brown<br /> <b>Wyrd Sisters</b> - Terry Pratchett<br /> <b>The Path</b> - Richard Matheson<br /> <b>The Secret History</b> - Donna Tarrt<br /> <b>Here Be Dragons</b> - Sharon Kay Penman<br /> <b>Lies &amp; Ugliness</b> - Brian Hodge<br /> <b>Frankenstein</b> - Mary Shelly<br /> <b>The Book of the Damned</b> - Tanith Lee<br /> <b>Lucky You</b> - Carl Hiaasen<br /> <b>Snow Falling on Cedars</b> - David Guterson<br /> <b>Starship Troopers</b> - Robert Heinlein<br /> <b>Watership Down</b> - Richard Adams<br /> <b>Dracula</b> - Bram Stoker<br /> <b>Wild Horses</b> - Brian Hodge<br /></p> </td> <td valign="top"> <b>At Home: <I>A Short History of Private Life</I></b> - Bill Bryson<br /> <b>My Reading Life</b> - Pat Conroy<br /> <b>The Mother Tongue: <i>English and How It Got That Way</i></b> - Bill Bryson<br /> <b>Losing My Cool: <i>How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture</i></b> - Thomas Chatterton Williams<br /> <b>Stuff: <i>Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things</i></b> - Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee<br /> <b>The Man Who Loved Books Too Much</b> - Allison Hoover Bartlett<br /> <b>Superfreakonomics</b> - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner<br /> <b>My Life in France</b> - Julia Child with Alex Prud'Homme<br /> <b>American On Purpose: <i>The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot</i></b> - Craig Ferguson<br /> <b>Creative Journal Writing</b> - Stephanie Dowrick<br /> <b>Julie &amp; Julia</b> - Julie Powell<br /> <b>Diary of an Exercise Addict</b> - Peach Friedman<br /> <b>Giving Up: <i>The Last Days of Sylvia Plath</i></b> - Jillian Becker<br /> <b>Dewey</b> - Vicki Myron<br /> <b>Marley and Me</b> - John Grogan<br /> <b>The Last Lecture</b> - Randy Pausch<br /> <b>Brainiac: <i>Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs</i></b> - Ken Jennings<br /> <b>Oval Office Occult: <i>True Stories of White House Weirdness</i></b> - Brian M. Thomsen<br /> <b>Obscene In The Extreme: <i>The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'</i></b> - Rick Wartzman<br /> <b>If Chins Could Kill: <i>Confessions of a B-Movie Actor</i></b> - Bruce Campbell<br /> <b>Compulsive Acts: <i>A Psychiatrist's Tales of Ritual and Obsession</i></b> - Elias Aboujaoude, M. D.<br /> <b>Till Death Do Us Part: <i>Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse</i></b> - Dr. Robi Ludwig and Matt Birkbeck<br /> <b>Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex <i>(and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)</i></b> - Jeffrey Kluger<br /> <b>Baa Baa Black Sheep</b> - Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, Col., U.S. Marine Corps, Ret.<br /> <b>Travels with Charley <i>(In Search of America)</i></b> - John Steinbeck<br /> <b>Reading Lolita in Tehran</b> - Azar Nafisi<br /> <b>The Planets</b> - Dava Sobel<br /> <b>Too Far From Home</b> - Chris Jones<br /> <b>Secrets of the Widow's Son</b> - David A. Shugarts<br /> <b>Playing With Trains: <i>A Passion Beyond Scale</i></b> - Sam Posey<br /> <b>The Pedant's Revolt: <i>Know What Know-It-Alls Know</i></b> - Andrea Barham<br /> <b>While Europe Slept</b> - Bruce Bawer<br /> <b>The Tipping Point</b> - Malcolm Gladwell<br /> <b>Under the Banner of Heaven</b> - Jon Krakauer<br /> <b>The Serpent and The Moon</b> - HRH Princess Michael of Kent<br /> <b>Freakonomics</b> - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner<br /> <b>The Know-It-All</b> - A. J. Jacobs<br /> <b>So Many Books, So Little Time</b> - Sara Nelson<br /> <b>Holy Blood, Holy Grail</b> - Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln<br /> <b>Salinger: A Biography</b> - Paul Alexander<br /> <b>The Fog</b> - Rob MacGregor and Bruce Gernon<br /> <b>Bringing Down the House</b> - Ben Mezrich<br /> <b>Alien Agenda</b> - Jim Marrs<br /> <b>The Key</b> - Whitley Strieber<br /> <b>The Secret School</b> - Whitley Strieber<br /> <b>The Philadelphia Experiment</b> - William Moore and Charles Berlitz<br /> <b>Historical Deception</b> - Moustafa Gadalla<br /> <b>Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed</b> - Patricia Cornwell<br /> <b>How The Irish Saved Civilization</b> - Thomas Cahill<br /> <b>On Writing</b> - Stephen King<br /> <b>1066: The Year of the Conquest</b> - David Howarth<br /> <b>First Light</b> - Richard Preston<br /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br /> <br /> <br /> Don't forget my page of <a href="/books/series.html">Series</a> reads, <a href="/books/sharedrecent.html">Shared Universe</a> reads, or <a href="/books/mysteries.html">classic Mysteries</a>.<br /> You don't want to skip my <a href="/books/recentantho.html">Recently Read Anthologies and Collections</a> page.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <i>Last Update: 12-27-2011</i> <br /></span></span></p> </body> </html>