Goodreads Recommends--British Isles!
Dec. 27th, 2013 10:26 amBeen a while since the last one. This time, we'll look at the books Goodreads is suggesting based on my British Isles shelf. Here I place books that either take place in Great Britain and Ireland, or have authors from those lands. Since it isn't a genre as such, there should be a wide variety of books, some good.
The Antipope by Robert Rankin
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley
A Christmas Carol, the Chimes and the Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Doctor Mirabilis by James Blish
The Door Within by Wayne Thomas Batson
Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
Drinking at the Movies by Julia Wertz
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton
Essential Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Firefox by Craig Thomas
Foxe's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits by Garth Ennis
King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales by Thomas Malory
Kingdom's Dawn by Chuck Black
Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway by Mike Carey
Mairelon the Magician by Patricia C. Wrede
The Mansion by Henry van Dyke
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint
Night of the Fox by Jack Higgins
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Raising Dragons by Bryan Davis
Rocannon's World by Ursula K. LeGuin
Selected Stories by O. Henry
Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street by William S. Baring-Gould
Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye by Frank Miller
Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street by Warren Ellis
The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories by Nicholas Gurewitch
The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre by John William Polidori
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Kind of an emphasis on Vertigo Comics there.
As always, let me know if you've read any of these, have heard interesting buzz, or just have something to say. Also, check out http://www.skjam.com for reviews of books I've actually read.
Happy Holidays,
SKJAM!
The Antipope by Robert Rankin
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley
A Christmas Carol, the Chimes and the Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Doctor Mirabilis by James Blish
The Door Within by Wayne Thomas Batson
Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
Drinking at the Movies by Julia Wertz
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton
Essential Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Firefox by Craig Thomas
Foxe's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits by Garth Ennis
King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales by Thomas Malory
Kingdom's Dawn by Chuck Black
Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway by Mike Carey
Mairelon the Magician by Patricia C. Wrede
The Mansion by Henry van Dyke
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint
Night of the Fox by Jack Higgins
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Raising Dragons by Bryan Davis
Rocannon's World by Ursula K. LeGuin
Selected Stories by O. Henry
Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street by William S. Baring-Gould
Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye by Frank Miller
Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street by Warren Ellis
The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories by Nicholas Gurewitch
The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre by John William Polidori
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Kind of an emphasis on Vertigo Comics there.
As always, let me know if you've read any of these, have heard interesting buzz, or just have something to say. Also, check out http://www.skjam.com for reviews of books I've actually read.
Happy Holidays,
SKJAM!