All About Books discussion

M Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall

N: Anaïs Nin - Have read Delta of Venus and Henry And June. From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin.

O: Maggie O'FarrellThe Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

P: Pier Paolo Pasolini - The Ragazzi and a lot of others. He was also a very famous Italian film director.
He was gay and has been murdered by some youngsters at Ostia - actually only one has been sentenced for it ...

@Maggie oh I thought that book: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox was so moving, I could not put it down.

R
Elizabeth Royte The Tapir's Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are Trying to Solve Them

LauraT wrote: "P: Pier Paolo Pasolini - The Ragazzi and a lot of others. He was also a very famous Italian film director.
He was gay and has been murdered by some youngsters at Ostia ..."

"Everyman's death diminishes me "

Tweedledum wrote: ""Everyman's death diminishes me "
"

Absolutely

S: Dorothy L. Sayers - Unnatural Death

T: Mark Twain - so many! The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 9, The Prince and the Pauper, etc.

U Nicola Upson An Expert in Murder

Nicola Upson has chosen the author Josephine Tey as her detective figure. In the course of the stories we learn a lot about that author's life. I've read the first: being a Josephine Tey fan I thought this would make interesting reading. I enjoyed it a lot but not sure about the morality of taking a real person and then creating a fictional series around them. The same has been done with Oscar Wilde I believe though I haven't read any of those. I wonder what other readers think....

V: Voltaire - Candide

@Tweedledum -- I had a similar reaction to An Expert in Murder and decided after thinking about it for a while that I wouldn't read any more. I did also read Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance: A Mystery but for some reason, Oscar Wilde as a character didn't bother me as much as Tey did (maybe because Tey was an intensely private person and Wilde wasn't??)...

W: Jess Walter; the very excellent Beautiful Ruins.

Leslie wrote: "V: Voltaire - Candide

@Tweedledum -- I had a similar reaction to An Expert in Murder and decided after thinking about it for a while that I wouldn't read any more. ..."

I am still undecided. The book paints a very sympathetic picture of Josephine Tey and it was good to learn more about her. I am going to try the next one in the series......some time...

X
Going to go for Xinran again because I love her books and think they should be very widely read...
The Good Women Of China: Hidden Voices

Y: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Z
Howard Zinn
Haven't read any of his books but You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times appeals to me.

A:
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II. 1939-1948 by W.H. Auden

B: Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac

@Leslie. I might read that one for our 'read a book in your name' thingy. Otherwise it's the Divine Miss M for me (Bette Midler)

C: Italo Calvino. He wrote several really good books: Our Ancestors: The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Six Memos For The Next Millennium

D
Daniel Defoe author of Robinson Crusoe

Tweedledum wrote: "D
Daniel Defoe author of Robinson Crusoe"

nice double D there, Tweedledum!

E: George Eliot -- Middlemarch

F: Stephen Fry - The Liar

Terry Goodkind Wizard's First Rule

H Lawrence Hill Someone Knows My Name: just read it for my suggestion swap

I
Barbara Ireson author of Tales out of Time and editor of several children's story and poetry collections.

Samuel Johnson - The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

K Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees, High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never

L - Jane Lynch Happy Accidents

M Bharati Mukherjee - Jasmine, The Middleman and Other Stories

N
Nigel Nicolson author of Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

O
Edna O'Brien Girl With Green Eyes

P: Thomas Love Peacock, author of Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey among others

Q
Thomas de Quincey

R James Runcie author of Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night

T
Antonio Tabucchi author, among other books, of Sostiene Pereira

Oops, missed S: George Bernard Shaw, playwright, author of Androcles and the Lion, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion amongst others

Now, onto U...

Oops my mistake!!!

// U//

Alison Uttley author of the little grey rabbit books and The Country Child and lots of others.

V: Barbara Vine, author of mystery thrillers such as A Dark-Adapted EyeKing Solomon's Carpet (pen name for Ruth Rendell)

Jane Urquhart- Author of The Stone Carvers

Leslie wrote: "V: Barbara Vine, author of mystery thrillers such as A Dark-Adapted EyeKing Solomon's Carpet (pen name for Ruth Rendell)"

W: Wiggs, Susan. Wrote Candlelight Christmas

X.
Meihong Xu
author of
Daughter Of China

Y

Samantha Young, author of On Dublin Street (haven't read it)

Z

Rachel Zadok; I read Gem Squash Tokoloshe last year and enjoyed it

Danielle wrote: "Z

Rachel Zadok; I read Gem Squash Tokoloshe last year and enjoyed it"

Looks intriguing.

Tweedledum wrote: "Danielle wrote: "Z

Rachel Zadok; I read Gem Squash Tokoloshe last year and enjoyed it"

Looks intriguing."

It is

A

Kate Atkinson

I have read all 4 Jackson Brodie books (Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News?and Started Early, Took My Dog as well as Behind the Scenes at the Museum and Life After Life

B: Heinrich Böll

Read The Silent Angel earlier this year. Hope to read more by this author.