Recent recommendationsholly_golightly recommends The Victim of Prejudice. by Mary Hays for The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (Dec 21, 2009) holly_golightly recommends The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë for The Victim of Prejudice. by Mary Hays (Dec 21, 2009) infiniteletters recommends Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank for Arslan, or A Wind from Bukhara by M. J. Engh (Dec 21, 2009) infiniteletters recommends Arslan, or A Wind from Bukhara by M. J. Engh for Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (Dec 21, 2009) gonzobrarian recommends Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman for The Gates by John Connolly (Dec 21, 2009) owen1218 recommends How Children Fail by John Holt for Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn (Dec 21, 2009) owen1218 recommends Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn for How Children Fail by John Holt (Dec 21, 2009) EatSleepChuck recommends The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester for Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (Dec 21, 2009) EatSleepChuck recommends Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks for The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester (Dec 21, 2009) EatSleepChuck recommends Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card for The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold, "Both main characters are kids who make up for their meek physical stature with cleverness and perception to rise up the ranks of military. Ender's Game (see more) is noticeably darker, however." (Dec 21, 2009) EatSleepChuck recommends The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold for Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, "Both main characters are kids who make up for their meek physical stature with cleverness and perception to rise up the ranks of military. Ender's Game (see more) is noticeably darker, however." (Dec 21, 2009) foggidawn recommends An Abundance of Katherines by John Green for Going Bovine by Libba Bray (Dec 20, 2009) foggidawn recommends Going Bovine by Libba Bray for An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (Dec 20, 2009) foggidawn recommends Deadline by Chris Crutcher for Going Bovine by Libba Bray (Dec 20, 2009) foggidawn recommends Going Bovine by Libba Bray for Deadline by Chris Crutcher (Dec 20, 2009) diskit recommends The Neverending Story by Michael Ende for Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman (Dec 20, 2009) sietsmareadinglist recommends The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley for Saving Endangered Birds: Ensuring a Future in the Wild (Cincinnati Zoo Book) by Thane Maynard (Dec 20, 2009) sietsmareadinglist recommends Saving Endangered Birds: Ensuring a Future in the Wild (Cincinnati Zoo Book) by Thane Maynard for The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley (Dec 20, 2009) nsblumenfeld recommends Everland and Other Stories by Paul Witcover for The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford, "Both strong collections of timeless stories, well-written, biting mélanges of realism, fantasy and horror, often with a dollop of nostalgia that never (see more) descends to mawkishness." (Dec 20, 2009) nsblumenfeld recommends The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford for Everland and Other Stories by Paul Witcover, "Both strong collections of timeless stories, well-written, biting mélanges of realism, fantasy and horror, often with a dollop of nostalgia that never (see more) descends to mawkishness." (Dec 20, 2009) BookLizard recommends Red-Headed Stepchild by Jaye Wells for Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost (Dec 20, 2009) BookLizard recommends Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost for Red-Headed Stepchild by Jaye Wells (Dec 20, 2009) Maiasaura recommends Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar for The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga (Dec 20, 2009) lordbored recommends Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman for I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President by Josh Lieb (Dec 20, 2009) Betinna recommends Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman for Death: The Time of Your Life by Neil Gaiman (Dec 20, 2009) Betinna recommends Death: The Time of Your Life by Neil Gaiman for Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman (Dec 20, 2009) SugarCreekRanch recommends A Walk in the Woods (abridged audio) by Bill Bryson for Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen, "Both books recall a adventurous outdoor challenge (hiking the Appalachian trail, or running the Iditarod), told with an wonderful sense of humor. Entertaining (see more) reads for the armchair adventurer!" (Dec 20, 2009) SugarCreekRanch recommends Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen for A Walk in the Woods (abridged audio) by Bill Bryson, "Both books recall a adventurous outdoor challenge (hiking the Appalachian trail, or running the Iditarod), told with an wonderful sense of humor. Entertaining (see more) reads for the armchair adventurer!" (Dec 20, 2009) pyrocow recommends Kurt Vonnegut's crusade; or, How a postmodern harlequin preached a new kind of humanism by Todd F. Davis for Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (Dec 20, 2009) simon_carr recommends Flashman by for Coward on the Beach by James Delingpole (Dec 20, 2009) Busifer recommends The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved (Studies in the Evolution of Language) by Robbins Burling for The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco (Dec 20, 2009) Busifer recommends The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco for The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved (Studies in the Evolution of Language) by Robbins Burling (Dec 20, 2009) Gemmifer recommends A Walk in Wolf Wood by Mary Stewart for The Ghosts by Antonia Barber (Dec 20, 2009) yokai recommends American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis for Killer on the Road by James Ellroy (Dec 20, 2009) yokai recommends Killer on the Road by James Ellroy for American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (Dec 20, 2009) enrique_molinero recommends Dead Eye: Pennies for the Ferryman by Jim Bernheimer for Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (Dec 20, 2009) TheFlamingoReads recommends The Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett for Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd (Dec 19, 2009) KimB recommends The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas for The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher, "Another very well written novel with a familial tension base. Set in Australia." (Dec 19, 2009) arethusarose recommends Faery Moon by C. J. Cherryh for Faery in Shadow by C. J. Cherryh, "Faery Moon is an ebook - a revised version of Faery in Shadow, rewritten to make it the book Cherryh wanted it to be. The ebook is available from the author (see more) at http://www.closed-circle.net/" (Dec 19, 2009) Tanglewood recommends Leaves in Myth, Magic & Medicine by Alice Thoms Vitale for Meetings with Remarkable Trees by Thomas Pakenham (Dec 19, 2009) Tanglewood recommends Leaves in Myth, Magic & Medicine by Alice Thoms Vitale for The Trees in My Forest by Bernd Heinrich (Dec 19, 2009) Tanglewood recommends Black: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau for Colour : Travels Through the Paintbox by Victoria Finlay (Dec 19, 2009) Tanglewood recommends Alexander Von Humboldt and the Botanical Exploration of the Americas: The Botanicals of America by H. Walter Lack for Botanicals: Butterflies & Insects by overstreetleslie (Dec 19, 2009) Betinna recommends Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman for Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips (Dec 19, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland for Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve (Dec 19, 2009) steven03tx recommends The Sea by John Banville for Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, "The Sea is also a story about a man's life twisted by his memories of a childhood romance by the sea. The outcome is quite different, but the language (see more) and themes of memory are similar." (Dec 19, 2009) steven03tx recommends The Sea by John Banville for Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Dec 19, 2009) fhilo01 recommends Daughter of the Flames by Zoë Marriott for Sisters of the Sword 3: Journey Through Fire by Maya Snow (Dec 19, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends Princess Alyss of Wonderland by Frank Beddor for Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin (Dec 19, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends White Stone: The Alice Poems by Stephanie Bolster for Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin (Dec 19, 2009) loriephillips recommends Medicine Road by Charles De Lint for The Wood Wife by Terri Windling (Dec 19, 2009) loriephillips recommends The Wood Wife by Terri Windling for Medicine Road by Charles De Lint (Dec 19, 2009) ladybug74 recommends The Jigsaw Man by Gord Rollo for Dead and Alive by Dean Koontz (Dec 19, 2009) JessicaGentz recommends A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel by Gaurav Suri for Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery by Arturo Sangalli (Dec 19, 2009) simon_carr recommends The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for The Tangled Skein by David Stuart Davies (Dec 19, 2009) simon_carr recommends The Tangled Skein by David Stuart Davies for The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Dec 19, 2009) simon_carr recommends Dracula by Bram Stoker for The Tangled Skein by David Stuart Davies (Dec 19, 2009) kochanneo recommends First Test by Tamora Pierce for Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce (Dec 19, 2009) Sukisue7 recommends Evermore (The Immortals) by Alyson Noël for Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick (Dec 19, 2009) strangeinfatuation recommends The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc: A Novel by Loraine Despres for The Reconstruction by Claudia Casper (Dec 19, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder for Cutting for Stone: A novel by Abraham Verghese (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar for The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel by Yoko Ogawa (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends Mudbound by Hillary Jordan for The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends Before I die by Jenny Downham for Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated by Steve Jones for Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Iain McCalman (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends Choke by Chuck Palahniuk for Beat the Reaper: A Novel by Josh Bazell (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends Cutting for Stone: A novel by Abraham Verghese for Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson for Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends Atonement by Ian McEwan for The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor for Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson for Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends Birds of America by Lorrie Moore for Too Much Happiness: Stories by Alice Munro (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends If I Stay by Gayle Forman for How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford (Dec 18, 2009) linedog1848 recommends Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis for Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg, "Founding Brothers has a good chapter on the Burr-Hamilton duel as well as more ancillary stories about Hamilton's character." (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis for Abigail Adams by Woody Holton (Dec 18, 2009) bertilak recommends Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses by Theodore Dalrymple for We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism by John Derbyshire (Dec 18, 2009) bertilak recommends We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism by John Derbyshire for Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses by Theodore Dalrymple (Dec 18, 2009) TheLibraryhag recommends Like a Charm by Candace Havens for Would-Be Witch by Kimberly Frost (Dec 18, 2009) TheLibraryhag recommends Would-Be Witch by Kimberly Frost for Like a Charm by Candace Havens (Dec 18, 2009) TheLibraryhag recommends Like a Charm by Candace Havens for Barely Bewitched by Kimberly Frost (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl for The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris for You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks for Atonement by Ian McEwan (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co. by Jeremy Mercer for An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World of Books by Wendy Werris (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends The Sister by Poppy Adams for The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin (Dec 18, 2009) BookshelfMonstrosity recommends The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan for Making Toast: A Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt (Dec 18, 2009) thewalkinggirl recommends Jean-Christophe by Romain Rolland for Requiem by Shizuko Go (Dec 18, 2009) thewalkinggirl recommends Requiem by Shizuko Go for Jean-Christophe by Romain Rolland (Dec 18, 2009) artturnerjr recommends 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke for Voice Of The Fire by Alan Moore (Dec 18, 2009) simon_carr recommends The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope for Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair by David Stuart Davies (Dec 18, 2009) simon_carr recommends Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair by David Stuart Davies for The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope (Dec 18, 2009) artturnerjr recommends Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes for Voice Of The Fire by Alan Moore (Dec 18, 2009) artturnerjr recommends A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess for Voice Of The Fire by Alan Moore (Dec 18, 2009) simon_carr recommends Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser for Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair by David Stuart Davies (Dec 18, 2009) simon_carr recommends Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair by David Stuart Davies for Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser (Dec 18, 2009) range3 recommends Winter Is the Warmest Season by Lauren Stringer for Brave Bitsy and the Bear by Angela McAllister (Dec 18, 2009) range3 recommends Where's My Teddy? by Jez Alborough for Brave Bitsy and the Bear by Angela McAllister (Dec 18, 2009) range3 recommends Too Many Toys by David Shannon for The Boy Who Wouldn't Share by Mike Reiss (Dec 18, 2009) range3 recommends Museum Trip by Barbara Lehman for Bow-Wow Bugs a Bug by Mark Newgarden (Dec 18, 2009) range3 recommends Tuesday by David Wiesner for Bow-Wow Bugs a Bug by Mark Newgarden (Dec 18, 2009) range3 recommends Math Curse by Jon Scieszka for Bean Thirteen by Matthew McElligott (Dec 18, 2009) range3 recommends The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone for All for Pie, Pie for All by David Martin (Dec 18, 2009) range3 recommends All in Just One Cookie by Susan E. Goodman for All for Pie, Pie for All by David Martin (Dec 18, 2009) meggyweg recommends The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy for Fires in the Dark: A Novel by Louise Doughty (Dec 18, 2009) meggyweg recommends Fires in the Dark: A Novel by Louise Doughty for The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy (Dec 18, 2009) meggyweg recommends Weeping Violins: The Gypsy Tragedy in Europe by Betty Alt for Fires in the Dark: A Novel by Louise Doughty (Dec 18, 2009) meggyweg recommends Fires in the Dark: A Novel by Louise Doughty for Weeping Violins: The Gypsy Tragedy in Europe by Betty Alt (Dec 18, 2009) meggyweg recommends A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes for Bible Stories for Adults by James Morrow (Dec 18, 2009) meggyweg recommends Bible Stories for Adults by James Morrow for A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes (Dec 18, 2009) liao recommends Plum Wine by Angela Davis-Gardner for The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery (Dec 17, 2009) LitPeejster recommends The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X for Black Magic Poetry 1961-1967 by Amiri Baraka (Dec 17, 2009) fugitive recommends The Two Kings: Jesus & Elvis by A. J. Jacobs for Bubba Ho-Tep by , "For Elvis Presley completists." (Dec 17, 2009) fugitive recommends Bubba Ho-Tep by for The Two Kings: Jesus & Elvis by A. J. Jacobs, "For Elvis Presley completists." (Dec 17, 2009) Bookwormbiz recommends The Rage of Achilles by Terence Hawkins for The War at Troy by Lindsay Clarke, "This book is like the Saving Private Ryan version of The Iliad. Its realistic and raw and bloody and gory, like reading a memoir about the Trojan war." (Dec 17, 2009) sweetbug recommends The Center of Winter: A Novel (P.S.) by Marya Hornbacher for The Weight Of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf, "The two books have a similar feel, although The Center of Winter is not a suspense/thriller type book." (Dec 17, 2009) sweetbug recommends The Weight Of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf for The Center of Winter: A Novel (P.S.) by Marya Hornbacher (Dec 17, 2009) Ross.Farnsworth recommends Lyman Pistol & Revolver Reloading Handbook. by for Handloader's Digest by John T Amber (Dec 17, 2009) Ross.Farnsworth recommends Handloader's Digest by John T Amber for Lyman Pistol & Revolver Reloading Handbook. by (Dec 17, 2009) Ross.Farnsworth recommends Lyman reloading handbook by for Handloader's Digest by John T Amber (Dec 17, 2009) Ross.Farnsworth recommends Handloader's Digest by John T Amber for Lyman reloading handbook by (Dec 17, 2009) collsers recommends Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë for Silent Governess, The by Julie Klassen (Dec 17, 2009) ginger8 recommends Resistance by Owen Sheers for Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam (Dec 17, 2009) edwinbcn recommends Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China by Bill Porter for The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen (Dec 17, 2009) edwinbcn recommends The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen for Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China by Bill Porter (Dec 17, 2009) Midnightdreary recommends Power Of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville by Harry Levin for The flowering of New England, 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks, "This is the other side of the flowering of the American renaissance - one which is a little less, well, flowery." (Dec 17, 2009) ZechariahStover recommends Great is Thy Faithfulness by Linda Moore for Autumn with the Moodys by Sarah Maxwell, "I found "Great is Thy Faithfulness" to be very similar in style to Ms. Maxwell's books. It is written by a Christian homeschool mother for her children. (see more) I have only been able to find it on Lulu.com but it does not seem to be available there any more." (Dec 17, 2009) Midnightdreary recommends Elsie Venner by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. for The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Similar exploration of the question of sin, inherited or otherwise." (Dec 17, 2009) Midnightdreary recommends The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne for Elsie Venner (Signet Classic, CT78) by (Dec 17, 2009) chazzard recommends The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester for Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier (Dec 17, 2009) chazzard recommends Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier for The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester (Dec 17, 2009) MyriadBooks recommends The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come by John Bunyan for The Book of the Dun Cow by Jr., Walter Wangerin (Dec 17, 2009) MyriadBooks recommends The Book of the Dun Cow by Jr., Walter Wangerin for The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come by John Bunyan (Dec 17, 2009) sdtay recommends A Home For Christmas by Deborah Grace Staley for A Home For Christmas by Deborah Grace Staley, "Awesome book. I was a little skeptical at first, because this is not a book I would go pick up.
It's a very classy book, that kept my attention through (see more) it all. Love at Christmas, how could you ask for anymore!" (Dec 17, 2009) Hibou8 recommends The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey for The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion by Edward Gorey (Dec 17, 2009) Hibou8 recommends The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion by Edward Gorey for The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey (Dec 17, 2009) geitebukkeskjegg recommends Operation Snehvide by Eirik Wekre for Goliat : thriller by Ørjan Nordhus Karlsson (Dec 17, 2009) geitebukkeskjegg recommends Goliat : thriller by Ørjan Nordhus Karlsson for Operation Snehvide by Eirik Wekre (Dec 17, 2009) geitebukkeskjegg recommends Operation Snehvide by Eirik Wekre for Haukene by Stein Morten Lier (Dec 17, 2009) geitebukkeskjegg recommends Haukene by Stein Morten Lier for Operation Snehvide by Eirik Wekre (Dec 17, 2009) geitebukkeskjegg recommends Goliat : thriller by Ørjan Nordhus Karlsson for Haukene by Stein Morten Lier (Dec 17, 2009) geitebukkeskjegg recommends Haukene by Stein Morten Lier for Goliat : thriller by Ørjan Nordhus Karlsson (Dec 17, 2009) pyrocow recommends Kurt Vonnegut's crusade; or, How a postmodern harlequin preached a new kind of humanism by Todd F. Davis for Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (Dec 16, 2009) pyrocow recommends Kurt Vonnegut's crusade; or, How a postmodern harlequin preached a new kind of humanism by Todd F. Davis for Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Dec 16, 2009) psybre recommends Radio Freefall by Matthew Jarpe for The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, "Lunar mayhem, and not just due to rock and roll, either." (Dec 16, 2009) psybre recommends Radio Freefall by Matthew Jarpe for Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (Dec 16, 2009) simon_carr recommends Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk by Len Deighton for Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (Dec 16, 2009) simon_carr recommends Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore for Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk by Len Deighton (Dec 16, 2009) simon_carr recommends The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World by Jenny Uglow for Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World 1776-1914 by Gavin Weightman (Dec 16, 2009) simon_carr recommends Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World 1776-1914 by Gavin Weightman for The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World by Jenny Uglow (Dec 16, 2009) fugitive recommends Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen for Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, "Duh!" (Dec 16, 2009) fugitive recommends Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen, "Duh!" (Dec 16, 2009) fugitive recommends Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban for Lanark by Alasdair Gray (Dec 16, 2009) fugitive recommends Lanark by Alasdair Gray for Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban (Dec 16, 2009) girlunderglass recommends Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger for The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt, "More child prodigies one falls head over heels with." (Dec 16, 2009) girlunderglass recommends The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt for Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger, "More child prodigies one falls head over heels with." (Dec 16, 2009) fugitive recommends Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-up Adaptation by Lewis Carroll for Alice in Pop-up Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Dec 16, 2009) fugitive recommends Alice in Pop-up Wonderland by Lewis Carroll for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-up Adaptation by Lewis Carroll (Dec 16, 2009) paradoxosalpha recommends Gödel’s Proof by Ernest Nagel for Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, "A brief explanation of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem for the lay reader, recapitulating some of the history of logic included in Logicomix." (Dec 15, 2009) ldelprete recommends Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater for Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, "this story has the same romantic ideas and envoked the same feeling i had when reading the twilight saga. Life after twilight leads to shiver!" (Dec 15, 2009) Cecilturtle recommends Le métier de lire by Bernard Pivot for Le prix Nobel by Kjell Espmark (Dec 15, 2009) bertilak recommends The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation by W.Y. Evans Wentz for The Last Museum by Brion Gysin (Dec 15, 2009) bertilak recommends The Last Museum by Brion Gysin for The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation by W.Y. Evans Wentz (Dec 15, 2009) caju recommends Tent of Miracles by Jorge Amado for Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado (Dec 15, 2009) caju recommends Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado for Tent of Miracles by Jorge Amado (Dec 15, 2009) caju recommends The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier for Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo (Dec 15, 2009) caju recommends Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo for The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier (Dec 15, 2009) caju recommends Sagarana by João Guimarães Rosa for Grande Sertão: Veredas by João Guimarães Rosa (Dec 15, 2009) caju recommends Grande Sertão: Veredas by João Guimarães Rosa for Sagarana by João Guimarães Rosa (Dec 15, 2009) caju recommends Vila dos Confins by M Palmério for Chapadao Do Bugre by Mario Palmerio (Dec 15, 2009) caju recommends Chapadao Do Bugre by Mario Palmerio for Vila dos Confins by M Palmério (Dec 15, 2009) PhoenixTerran recommends Tarot Tales by Rachel Pollack for Tarot Tales by Rachel Pollack (Dec 15, 2009) PhoenixTerran recommends Tarot Tales by Rachel Pollack for Tarot Tales by Rachel Pollack (Dec 15, 2009) PhoenixTerran recommends Tarot Tales by Rachel Pollack for Tarot Fantastic by Martin Harry Greenberg (Dec 15, 2009) cransell recommends Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder for The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (Dec 15, 2009) cransell recommends The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich for Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Dec 15, 2009) infiniteletters recommends The Night of the Scorpion by Anthony Horowitz for The Gathering by Isobelle Carmody (Dec 15, 2009) infiniteletters recommends The Gathering by Isobelle Carmody for The Night of the Scorpion by Anthony Horowitz (Dec 15, 2009) pitjrw recommends Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte for Life and Fate by Vasili Grossman (Dec 15, 2009) sawaki recommends Moyashimon, Volume 8 by Masayuki 雅之 Ishikawa 石川 for Moyashimon, Volume 8 by Masayuki 雅之 Ishikawa 石川 (Dec 15, 2009) Aerulan recommends Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls by Jane Lindskold for A Red Heart of Memories by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Dec 15, 2009) Aerulan recommends A Red Heart of Memories by Nina Kiriki Hoffman for Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls by Jane Lindskold (Dec 15, 2009) MikeOnTheTrail recommends Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store by Robin Sloan for The Writer & The Witch by Robin Sloan (Dec 15, 2009) MikeOnTheTrail recommends The Writer & The Witch by Robin Sloan for Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store by Robin Sloan (Dec 15, 2009) DieFledermaus recommends Adolphe and the Red Notebook by Benjamin Constant for Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust (Dec 15, 2009) KenJenningsFan74 recommends Unwind by Neal Shusterman for The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Dec 15, 2009) KenJenningsFan74 recommends The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins for Unwind by Neal Shusterman (Dec 15, 2009) KenJenningsFan74 recommends The house of the scorpion by Nancy Farmer for Unwind by Neal Shusterman (Dec 14, 2009) KenJenningsFan74 recommends Unwind by Neal Shusterman for The house of the scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Dec 14, 2009) OneMorePage recommends The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill for The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Dec 14, 2009) Runa recommends Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher for Hold Still by Nina LaCour (Dec 14, 2009) Runa recommends Hold Still by Nina LaCour for Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Dec 14, 2009) elleeldritch recommends The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant for Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex, "If you want fiction surrounding art, artists, and 15th century Italy, pick this up instead. More detail surrounding the time period and characters. It (see more) leaves you with an emotion, feeling something, unlike Leonardo's Swans (which was, "Okay, next book!")" (Dec 14, 2009) raizel recommends The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame for Three men in a boat by Jerome K. Jerome, "Both have spiritual, transcendent moments in what are, for the most part, silly stories." (Dec 14, 2009) fugitive recommends The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage for Future Shock by Alvin Toffler (Dec 14, 2009) fugitive recommends Future Shock by Alvin Toffler for The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage (Dec 14, 2009) fugitive recommends Future Shock by Alvin Toffler for The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson (Dec 14, 2009) fugitive recommends The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson for Future Shock by Alvin Toffler (Dec 14, 2009) meggyweg recommends Stories I Stole by Wendell Steavenson for Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova (Dec 14, 2009) meggyweg recommends Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova for Stories I Stole by Wendell Steavenson (Dec 14, 2009) PhoenixTerran recommends Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook by Sarah Schmelling for Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less by Alexander Aciman (Dec 14, 2009) PhoenixTerran recommends Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less by Alexander Aciman for Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook by Sarah Schmelling (Dec 14, 2009) |