[bksvol-discuss] Re: BKS favorite books- over 100

  • From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:00:36 -0800

Volunteers,

A round of applause for Denise! She has captured your nominations for
Bookshare Volunteers' Most Enjoyable Books. Using the power of a polling
place monitor she limited everyone to five books maximum and came up with
this list below and attached as a spreadsheet.

Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow


 
 
 
  A Prologue To Love
  Taylor Caldwell
 
 
  A Song Of Ice and Fire
  George RR Martin
 
 
  AD Chronicles Series
  Bodie and Brock Thoene
 
 
  An Equal Music 
  
  Vikram Seth 
 
 
  Anathem 
  
  Neal Stephenson
 
 
  Anna Karenina 
  
  Leo Tolstoy
 
 
  As You Like It 
  
  William Shakespeare
  
 
 
  Beach Music 
  
  Pat Conroy
 
 
  Bratt Farrar 
  
  Josephine Tey
 
 
  Chinaberry
  James Still
 
 
  Circle of Love 
  
  Syrel Rogovin Leahy
 
 
  Codex Solara Series
  Jim Butcher
 
 
  Cold Mountain 
  
  Charles Frazier 
 
 
  Crime and Punishment
  Fydor Dostoevsky
 
 
  Darkness at Noon 
  Arthur Koestler
 
 
  Domina: A Beautiful Woman Doctor's Search for
  Professional Acceptance and the Man She Loves
  Barbara Wood
 
 
  Don Quixote 
  Cervantes
 
 
  Dragonlance Chronicles
  Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman
 
 
  East of Eden 
  
  John Steinbeck
 
 
  Gone with the Wind
  Margaret Mitchel
 
 
  Great Expectations
  Charles Dickens 
 
 
  Green Dolphin Street
  Elizabeth Goudge
 
 
  Greenmantle 
  John Buchan
 
 
  Gulliver's Travels
  Jonathan Swift
 
 
  Handling Sin 
  
  Michael Malone
 
 
  Harry Potter series
  JK Rawling 
 
 
  Hearts in Atlantis
  Stephen King 
 
 
  Heavy Planet 
  Hal Clement
 
 
  Huckleberry Finn 
  Mark Twain
 
 
  Jane Eyre 
  
  Bronté
 
 
  Joanna Brady Series
  J A Jance
 
 
  John McNabb 
  
  John Buchan
 
 
  Jurassic Park 
  Michael Chrichton
 
 
  Just Kids 
  
  Patti Smith
 
 
  Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis
  Masterpiece 
  Ashley Kahn, JimmyCobb
 
 
  Legends 
  
  Laura Risnick
 
 
  Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
  Stephen Jay Gould
 
 
  Little Bee: A Novel
  Chris Cleave
 
 
  Little Dorrit 
  
  Charles Dickens 
 
 
  Little Women 
  
  Louisa May Alcott
 
 
  Macbeth 
  
  William Shakespeare
 
 
  Madame Secretary 
  Madelaine Albright
 
 
  Mare's War - 
  Tanita S Davis
 
 
  Men Martians and Machines
  Eric Frank Russell
 
 
  Mere Christianity
  C S Lewis 
 
 
  Mr Standfast 
  
  John Buchan
 
 
  My Sweet Audrina 
  VC Andrews
 
 
  O K*A*P*L*A*N MY K*A*P*L*A*N
  Leo Rosten 
 
 
  Oliver Twist 
  
  Charles Dickens
 
 
  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  Alexksandr Solzhenitsyn
 
 
  Oryx and Crape 
  
  Margaret Atwood
 
 
  Our Mutual Friend
  Charles Dickens 
 
 
  Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Series
  Faye Kellerman
 
 
  Peter Wimsey mysteries
  Dorothy L Sayers
 
 
  Pilgrim's Progress
  John Bunyan
 
 
  Pillars of the Earth
  Ken Follett  
 
 
  Promises to Keep 
  T Davis Bunn 
 
 
  Proof 
  Dick Francis
 
 
  Riders
  of the Purple Sage
  Zane Grey
 
 
  Romeo and Juliet 
  William Shakespeare
 
 
  Room: A Novel
  Emma Donoghue 
 
 
  Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue Little Bee: A
  Novel  
  Chris Cleave 
 
 
  Sherlock Holmes novels
  Arthur Conan Doyle
 
 
  Singularity Sky 
  Charles Stross
 
 
  Six Hours One Friday
  Max Lucado 
 
 
  Stephanie Plum novels
  Janet Evanovich 
 
 
  Stones into Schools:
  Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan
<http://www.amazon.com/Stones-into-Schools-Promoting-Afghanistan/dp/0143118
234/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294086533&sr=8-1>
  Greg Mortenson and Khaled Hosseini
 
 
  Such a Pretty Fat (Or Why Pie is Not the Answer)
  Jen Lancaster
 
 
  Sword Of Truth 
  
  Terry Goodkind 
 
 
  The Amelia Peabody books
  Elizabeth Peters
 
 
  The Anne of Green Gables series
  Lucy Maud Montgomery
 
 
  The Bible 
  
 
 
  The Blind Watchmaker
  Richard Dawkins
 
 
  The Blue Bottle Club
  Penelope J Stokes
 
 
  The Book of Qualities
  J Ruth Gendler 
 
 
  The Brothers K 
  
  David James Duncan
 
 
  The Captain Duncan McClain detective series
  Baynard Kendreck
 
 
  The Chronicles of Blood and Stone
  Robert Newcomb 
<http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Newcomb/e/B001H9W1H8/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qi
d=1294090793&sr=8-1>
 
 
  The Culture of Disbelief
  Stephen L Carter
 
 
  The Dean's Watch 
  Elizabeth Goudge
 
 
  The Death Gate Cycle
  Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
 
 
  The Destinies of Blood and Stone
  Robert Newcomb
 
 
  The Diamond Age 
  Neal Stephenson
 
 
  The Grant County Series
  Karen Slaughter 
 
 
  The Grapes of Wrath
  John Steinbeck
 
 
  The Great Gatsby 
  Scott Fitzgerald 
 
 
  The Green Mile 
  
  Stephen King
 
 
  The Jane Rizzoli Novels
  Tess Gerritsen
 
 
  The Jesse Stone Novels
  Robert B Parker
 
 
  The Kitchen Madonna
  Rumer Godden
 
 
  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickle
  Charles Dickens 
 
 
  The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  JRR Tolkien 
 
 
  The Martian Chronicles
  Ray Bradbury
 
 
  The McKetrick Series
  Linda Lael Miller
 
 
  The Passage 
  
  Justin Cronon
 
 
  The Poem of the Man-God
  Maria Valtorta 
 
 
  The Probability Broach
  L Neil Smith
 
 
  The Redwall Series
  Brian Jacques 
 
 
  The Stand 
  
  Stephen King 
 
 
  The Sunny Randall Novels
  Robert B Parker
 
 
  The Thirty-nine Steps
  John Buchan
 
 
  The Three Hostages
  John Buchan
 
 
  The Time Machine 
  H G Wells
 
 
  This Present Darkness
  Frank E Peretti 
 
 
  Thunder and Roses
  Mary Jo Putney
 
 
  Time Enough for Love
  Robert A Heinlein
 
 
  To Kill a Mockingbird
  Harper Lee
 
 
  Tom Sawyer 
  
  Mark Twain
 
 
  Uncommon Heroes  
  Dee Henderson
 
 
  Vampire Chronicles
  Anne Rice
 
 
  Vanished 
  
  Karin Robards
 
 
  Warbreaker  
  Brendon Sanderson
 
 
  Watership Down 
  Richard Adams 
 
 
  We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel
  Lionel Shriver 
<http://www.amazon.com/Lionel-Shriver/e/B001HD3UCY/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qi
d=1294091135&sr=8-1>
 
 
  Wheel Of Time 
  
  Robert Jordan Brandon Sanderson
 
 
  White Dragon in Fire Forged
  Laura Risnick
 
 
  White Lotus 
  John Hersey
 
 
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
  Edward Albee 
 


On 1/3/11 11:20 AM, "Denise Thompson" <deniset@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>Well folks we have over 100 books on our list. People really
>responded. We had over 20 folks respond. I'm sending the list to
>Scott. Thanks to everyone who sent in books.
>Denise
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