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1LynnB
The original thread is getting too long...use this one!
The last post there was mine:
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
The last post there was mine:
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
3faceinbook
If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News From Small-Town Alaska by, Heather Lende
4careyi
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
7tropics
Falling Through The Earth: A Memoir - Danielle Trussoni
8Schmerguls
In the Shadows of War An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany, by Thomas Childers (read 20 Oct 2006)
9tropics
My War Gone By, I Miss It So - Anthony Lloyd
11shewhowearsred
The Art of Possibility by Zander and Zander
15tropics
The Cloud Atlas - Liam Callanan
18tropics
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
26xorscape
Planets, Other Worlds of Our Solar System, & Space Flight, The Coming Exploration of the Universe by Otto Binder
28tropics
Coming Of Age In Mississippi - Anne Moody
29Schmerguls
We are not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi, by Seth Cagin and Philip Dray (read 6 Dec 2000)
31tropics
Life On The Mississippi - Mark Twain
32DerBuecherwurm
Life with Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse--love it!
33LynnB
Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul
34tropics
Imperial Life In The Emerald City - Rajiv Chandrasekaran
37tropics
Shadow Of The Silk Road - Colin Thubron
46pamelad
Barry Mackenzie Holds His Own by Barry Humphries
49shewhowearsred
The Tale of the Rose: the Love Story Behind The Little Prince by Consuelo De Saint-Expuery
50Schmerguls
The Man Who Killed Rasputin: Prince Felix Yousoupov and the Murder That Helped Bring Down the Russian Empire, by Greg King (read 22 Jan 1997)
58tropics
The Mirror And The Mask: Portraiture In The Age Of Picasso - Paloma Alarco
60LynnB
Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire
64xorscape
Cat Among the Pigeons (Hercule Poirot) by Agatha Christie
No change it to 101 Favorite Wild Rice Recipes by Duane Lund
No change it to 101 Favorite Wild Rice Recipes by Duane Lund
66tropics
The Wild Trees: A Story Of Passion And Daring - Richard Preston
67Schmerguls
The Wild Ass of the Ozarks: Jeff Davis and the Social Basis of Southern Politics, by Raymond Arsenault (read 18 Jun 1995)
73LynnB
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
74faceinbook
I Hate To See The Evening Sun Go Down:Collected Stories by, William Gay
75LynnB
The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa
80LynnB
Venus as a Boy by Luke Sutherland
82LynnB
Well, I could say The Girl Who Played Go again and get us into some kind of loop!
So, instead, I'll say The Only Girl in the Car
So, instead, I'll say The Only Girl in the Car
83Schmerguls
Car Talk with Click and Clack: The Tarpet Brothers, by Tom and Ray Magliozzi with Terry Bisson (read 20 Jul 1993)
90Schmerguls
To Go Free: A Treasury of Iowa's Legal Heritage, by Richard, Lord Acton and Patricia Nassif Acton (read 3 Sep 1997)
91faceinbook
The Heritage of The Desert by, Zane Gray
93xorscape
Creatures of the Desert World (Pop-up Book) by National Geographic
94thebarnazi
The Creature from Jekyll Island
96thebarnazi
Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule (my girl)
100LynnB
What the Birds See by Sonya Hartnett
102Schmerguls
And No Birds Sang, by Farley Mowat (read 23 Nov 1986)
105poetreehugger
(At the Back of the North Wind) by ((George MacDonald))
111Schmerguls
The Power of the Dog, by Thomas Savage (read 25 Oct 1989)
112thebarnazi
The Power of Two by Susan Heitler
116thebarnazi
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118LynnB
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
120thebarnazi
Devil's Knot-The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt
121strandbooks
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
123LynnB
Mouthing the Words by Camilla Gibb
124siubhank
These is my Words:A Diary by Sarah Agnes Prime by Nancy Turner
125Schmerguls
We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition, by John Courtney Murray, S.J. (read 22 Aug 1964)
129xorscape
HARVARD CLASSICS Vol. 28, THE FIVE FOOT SHELF OF BOOKS: Essays, English and American edited by Charles W. Eliot
135xorscape
Animals Showing Off (A Pop-Up Book) a National Geographic Action Book
edit to try touchstones again..
edit to try touchstones again..
136Schmerguls
Chip off my Shoulder, by Thomas L. Stokes (read 2 Oct 1952)
137LynnB
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
145diwan
N.P.:a novel by Banana Yoshinoto
146Schmerguls
Blessed Are the Meek A Novel about St. Francis of Assisi, by Zofia Kossak (read 10 Aug 1944) (Book of the Year)
147LynnB
The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
151DerBuecherwurm
Death by Water by Kerry Greenwood
I've already used Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith previously
I've already used Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith previously
155diwan
I leave you my heart: A Visitandine Chronicle of the French Revolution: Mere Marie-Jeronyme Verot's Letter of 15 May, 1794 by Peronne-Marie Thibert
No, I don't own the book, published 2000, but I became a victime of translaters, because Excitable Speech by Judith Butler has been tranlated as Hass spricht, Hate talks, in German, it is the book I own and thought of.
No, I don't own the book, published 2000, but I became a victime of translaters, because Excitable Speech by Judith Butler has been tranlated as Hass spricht, Hate talks, in German, it is the book I own and thought of.
157Schmerguls
The Heart of Midlothian, by Sir Walter Scott (read 25 Mar 1967) (Book of the Year)
158thebarnazi
Heart Full of Lies by Ann Rule
159tropics
Into The Heart Of Borneo - Redmond O'Hanlon
167WholeHouseLibrary
The Devil's Cup : A History of the World According to Coffee
by Stewart Lee Alan
by Stewart Lee Alan
169WholeHouseLibrary
The Measure of All Things : The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
by Ken Alder
Touchstone's not loading ....
by Ken Alder
Touchstone's not loading ....
170goanna
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Has anyone read this? I have not been able to get past the first few pages - is is worth pursuing?
Has anyone read this? I have not been able to get past the first few pages - is is worth pursuing?
174Schmerguls
On the Other Side To My Children From Germany 1940-1945, by Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg translated and edited by Ruth Evans (read 25 Nov 1979)
175diwan
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, my book-titles in English are limited, so a little cheating is allowed?!
178tropics
The Working Poor: Invisible In America - David K. Shipler
182glaxona
Famous Chemists by William A. Tilden
184Schmerguls
Ship of Ghosts The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors, by James D. Hornfischer (read 9 Jan 2007)
194Mr.Durick
Why There is Something Rather than Nothing by Bede Rundle
The only touchstone with the single word Nobody in the title was totally unknown.
The only touchstone with the single word Nobody in the title was totally unknown.
195xorscape
Something Wicked by Jo Beverley
199Schmerguls
All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren (read 21 Sept 1958) (Book of the Year) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1947)
201DerBuecherwurm
All that remains by Patrica Cornwell
don't know why touchstones are stuffed
don't know why touchstones are stuffed
205elbakerone
The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy: The Lion, The Witch and The Worldview
edited by William Bassham
(touchstones still not working)
edited by William Bassham
(touchstones still not working)
210mybookcloset
Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy
211LynnB
Midnights: A Year with the Wellfleet Police by Alec Wilkinson
214strandbooks
A Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion
217Schmerguls
The Kensington Rune Stone: New Light on an Old Riddle, by Theodore C. Blegen (read 18 Apr 1982)
218diwan
The Stone Butch Blues: a novel by Leslie Feinberg
219LynnB
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
225WholeHouseLibrary
Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone or, The Plot Against Uncle Sam
by G. Harvey Ralphson
by G. Harvey Ralphson
227Schmerguls
Kate Chase Dominant Daughter The Life Story of a Brilliant Woman and Her Famous Father, by Mary Merwin Phelps (read 11 Dec 1945)
229LettaAvanell
First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover by Mitali Perkins
230siubhank
America goes to War by Bruce Catton
232WholeHouseLibrary
Thomas Payne : Prophet and Martyr of Democracy
by Mary Agnes Best
by Mary Agnes Best
233xorscape
Well, I was going to use The Problem of Pain by CS Lewis, but decided I would be booed...
Today I will nourish my inner martyr : affirmations for cynics by Sarah Wells
Today I will nourish my inner martyr : affirmations for cynics by Sarah Wells
236Schmerguls
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy (read 9 Apr 1952)
237xorscape
Bring on the Empty Horses by David Niven
238thebarnazi
Empty Promises by Ann Rule
239tropics
The Empty Ocean - Richard Ellis
240DerBuecherwurm
An Ocean Apart by Robin Pilcher
or The empty House by Rosamunde Pilcher
both in my library and I liked the symmetry.
what is the matter with the touchstones?
or The empty House by Rosamunde Pilcher
both in my library and I liked the symmetry.
what is the matter with the touchstones?
242WholeHouseLibrary
The House at Pooh Corner
by A.A. Milne
by A.A. Milne
244xorscape
How the Queen Cleans Everything : Handy Advice for a Clean House, Cleaner Laundry, and a Year of Timely Tips by Linda Cobb
245Schmerguls
Crazy '08 How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History, by Cait Murphy (read 25 May 2007)
246exnihilo35
Crazy Cock - Henry Miller
247xorscape
Crazy quilt odyssey : adventures in Victorian needlework by Judith Baker Montano
248seitherin
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
249exnihilo35
Lafcadio's Adventures - Andre Gide
250exnihilo35
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252exnihilo35
The Book of Questions - Edmond Jabes
253raggedtig
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
256exnihilo35
Twice -told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne
257Schmerguls
In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, by Ambrose Bierce (read 23 Apr 1951) (Book of the Year)
259exnihilo35
Everything in the Garden - Edward Albee
260thebarnazi
Everything She Ever Wanted by Ann Rule
261siubhank
She Walks These Hills by Sharon McCrumb
265siubhank
Shroud for A Nightingale by P.D. James
266Lman
The Eagle and the Nightingales by Mercedes Lackey
267Schmerguls
Forgotten Eagle: Wiley Post, America's Heroic Aviation Pioneer, by Bryan B. Sterling & Frances N. Sterling (read 8 Dec 2002)
269LynnB
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
270elbakerone
What Matters Most by Luanne Rice
271thebarnazi
What the Corpse Revealed; Murder and the Science of Forensic Detection by Hugh Miller
272raggedtig
The Murder on The Orient Express by Agatha Chrisite
273Pawcatuck
The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux
274DerBuecherwurm
These old shades by Georgette Heyer
275Schmerguls
The Old Jest, by Jennifer Johnston (read 5 Oct 1994) (Whitbread Book of the Year for 1979)
276readafew
Kane of Old Mars by Michael Moorcock
277Lman
Podkayne of Mars, her life and times by Robert A. Heinlein
279LettaAvanell
A Time to be flying by Stephanie Tolan
281raggedtig
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
282thebarnazi
SINGLE WIFE BY Nina Solomon
283Lman
The Animal Wife by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
284elbakerone
Animal Farm by George Orwell
285Schmerguls
Little Heathens Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression, by Mildred Armstrong Kalish (read 8 July 2007)
286raggedtig
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
287exnihilo35
A Spy in the House of Love - Anais Nin
289raggedtig
The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon
290Schmerguls
Like No Other Time The Two Years That Changed America, by Senator Tom Daschle with Michael D'Orso (read 8 Feb 2006)
291xorscape
Pistols for Two by Georgette Heyer
293exnihilo35
Cities of the Red Night - William S. Burroughs
294jkmansfield
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
295exnihilo35
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
297exnihilo35
Blues for Mister Charlie - James Baldwin
301Schmerguls
Where the Red Fern Grows: The story of two dogs and a boy, by Wilson Rawls (read 28 May 1994)
302tomcatMurr
The Plague Dogs Richard Adams
303januaryw
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
304exnihilo35
The Thief's Journal - Jean Genet
305LettaAvanell
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
306tropics
The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
307LynnB
The Scientist, the Madman, the Thief and Their Lightbulb, which LT calls "The Search for Free Energy" as that was the original title used in the UK.
308exnihilo35
The Diary of a Madman - Nikolai Gogol
309exnihilo35
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310LynnB
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
If you need the full title: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
If you need the full title: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
312exnihilo35
Murder in the Cathdral - T.S. Eliot
314exnihilo35
The Rules of the Game - Luigi Pirandello
315LettaAvanell
The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
317Schmerguls
A Very Long Engagement, by Sebastien Japricot translated by Linda Coverdale (read 16 Oct 1996)
318LettaAvanell
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
319elbakerone
Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman
320MyopicBookworm
Here be Dragons by David Koerner
321raggedtig
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
324DerBuecherwurm
Earthly delights by Kerry Greenwood
326Schmerguls
The Sweet Dove Died, by Barbara Pym (read 29 Nov 1999)
( I don't think "earth" and "earthly" are the same word, myself.)
( I don't think "earth" and "earthly" are the same word, myself.)
327tropics
A Taste Of The Sweet Apple: A Memoir - Jo Anna Holt-Watson
329elbakerone
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan :(
(the sad face is not for the book but because Robert Jordan recently died)
(the sad face is not for the book but because Robert Jordan recently died)
330LettaAvanell
Beyond World's End by Mercedes Lackey
331LynnB
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
332jkmansfield
Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home by Harry Kemelman
333Schmerguls
21 Stayed: The Story of the American GI's Who Chose Communist China--Who They Were and Why They Stayed, by Virginia Pasley (read 5 Nov 1967)
335tomcatMurr
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336faceinbook
Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight by, Alexandra Fuller
338raggedtig
Something Wonderful by Judith McNaught
340raggedtig
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
341tropics
A Three-Dog Life - Abigail Thomas
342thebarnazi
Three To Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
343LettaAvanell
Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs
345Schmerguls
The Great Influenza The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, by John M. Barry (read 20 Mar 2005)
347tropics
Ghost Wars: The Secret History Of The CIA - Steve Coll
348LettaAvanell
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
349LynnB
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
350elbakerone
The Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan
351LettaAvanell
The Sphere of Secrets: Book Two of The Oracle Prophecies by Catherine Fisher
353tropics
The Amateur Astronomer's Introduction To The Celestial Sphere - William Millar
357Schmerguls
My Cat Spit McGee, by Willie Morris (read 1 Dec 2002)
358DerBuecherwurm
Touch not the cat by Mary Stewart
359seitherin
No One Noticed the Cat by Anne McCaffrey
360tropics
The Quintessential Cat - Roberta Altman
362tropics
The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story - John Laurence
363LynnB
Story House by Timothy Taylor
364LettaAvanell
The Wish House by Celia Rees
365tropics
Wish I Could Be There: Notes From A Phobic Life - Allen Shawn
366LettaAvanell
A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life by Dana Reinhart
367Lman
Chapterhouse, Dune by Frank Herbert
369Schmerguls
George Sand A Biography, by Curtis Cate (read 30 Aug 1976)
371seitherin
King Arthur & the Grail: The Arthurian Legends and Their Meaning by Richard Cavendish
373tropics
The Hollow Hills - Mary Stewart
374Schmerguls
The Hollow Years: Europe in the 1930s, by Eugen Weber (read 27 Feb 1996)
375siubhank
The Hollow Crown: The Follies, Foibles and Faces of the Kings and Queens of England by John Barton
377tropics
Daughter Of The Queen Of Sheba - Jacki Lyden
379seitherin
Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint
381aviddiva
What Dreams May Come by Sherrilyn kenyon
382Schmerguls
Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson (read 11 Oct 2004)
383LynnB
Here They Come by Yannick Murphy
384elbakerone
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe - Bill Bryson
386tropics
Here Is New York - E.B. White
387januaryw
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
388jkmansfield
Sergeant York: An American Hero by David Lee
389raggedtig
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
390LettaAvanell
Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith
392twomoredays
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
393Schmerguls
The World's Living Languages: Basic Facts of Their Structure, Kinship, Location and Number of Speakers, by Siegfried H. Muller (read 26 Feb 1989)
396tropics
Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon - M.F.K. Fisher
397LynnB
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
399tropics
Last Child In The Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder - Richard Louv
401faceinbook
The Late Child: A Novel by Larry McMurtry
402Schmerguls
The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir, by John P. Marquand (read 29 Oct 1957) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1938)
404faceinbook
The Paris Review Book: of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex,
Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels......Else in The World 1953
Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels......Else in The World 1953
405faceinbook
Hm-m-m-m-m wonder why the touchstones didn't work on this one ??
406thebarnazi
The Practical Encylcopedia of Sex & Health by Stefan Bechtel
408Schmerguls
Mixed Blessings: An Almost Ordinary Life in Hitler's Germany, by Heinz R. Kuehn (read 28 May 1989)
409faceinbook
twomoredays.......
Did you read Rosenthal's book ? I LOVED that little book !
Did you read Rosenthal's book ? I LOVED that little book !
413Schmerguls
The British Empire Before the American Revolution Volume IX: The Triumphant Empire New Responsibilities Within the Enlarged Empire, 1763-1766, by Lawrence Henry Gipson (read 12 June 1982)
414LynnB
Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes
415seitherin
The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker