The Book List Challenge pt.6 {the last}

Hello~!

Here's sixth and last part of list The Hundred Books Worth To Read.

If you haven't seen previous parts, check them on our blog~!

 

 

 

 

83. The Woman in White

author: Wilkie Collins

literary genre: mystery, sensation novel

84. Far From the Madding Crowd

author: Thomas Hardy

literary genre: novel

85. Cloud Atlas

author: David Mitchell

literary genre: science fiction, drama, fantasy

86. The Faraway Tree Collection

author: Enid Blyton

literary genre: children's novel

87. Birdsong

author: Sebastian Faulks

literary genre: war novel, family saga

88. Corelli's Mandolin

author: Louis de Bernieres

literary genre: historical, romance, war novel

89. Dune

author: Frank Herbert

literary genre: soft science fiction

90. Cold Comfort Farm

author: Stella Gibbons

literary genre: comic novel

91. Watership Down

author: Richard Adams

literary genre: fantasy

92. A Suitable Boy

author: Vikram Seth

literary genre: novel

93. The Secret History

author: Donna Tartt

literary genre: fiction novel

94. Jude the Obscure

author: Thomas Hardy

literary genre: novel

95. Notes from a Small Island

author: Bill Bryson

literary genre: non-fiction

96. Ulysses

author: James Joyce

literary genre: modernist novel

97. Swallows and Amazons

author: Arthur Ransome

literary genre: adventure, children's novel

98. Germinal

author: Emile Zola

literary genre: novel

99. The Wasp Factory

author: Iain Banks

literary genre: novel

 

100. A Confederacy of Dunces

author: John Kennedy Toole

literary genre: comedy, tragicomedy


I'm really glad that I could write to you about books, and I'm very thankful to everyone who's reading this. The school year is ending and this is my last post. I hope that books I show to you were interesting and you all fall in love with them like I do.
Hope you enjoy it all :)

The Book List Challenge pt.5

Hello~!

Here's fifth part of list The Hundred Books Worth To Read.

If you haven't seen previous parts, check them on our blog.

Hope you'll enjoy it all :)

 

 

 

 

 

65. The Complete Works

author: William Shakespeare

literary genre: ~~~

66. The Handmaid's Tale

author: Margaret Atwood

literary genre: dystopian novel, science fiction

67. Les Miserables

author: Victor Hugo

literary genre: historical novel

68. A Town Like Alice

author: Nevil Shute

literary genre: romance
   
69. Tess of the D'Urbervilles

author: Thomas Hardy

literary genre: novel

70. Oliver Twist

author: Charles Dickens

literary genre: novel

71. A Fine Balance

author: Rohinton Mistry

literary genre: historical novel

72. Middlemarch

author: George Eliot

literary genre: novel

73. David Copperfield

author: Charles Dickens

literary genre: novel

74. Bleak House

author: Charles Dickens

literary genre: novel

75. Brideshead Revisited

author: Evelyn Waugh

literary genre: novel

76. War and Peace

author: Leo Tolstoy

literary genre: historical novel

77. The Bell Jar

author: Sylvia Plath

literary genre: roman a clef

78. Possession

author: A. S. Byatt

literary genre: novel

79. The Wind in the Willows

author: Kenneth Grahame

literary genre: children's novel

80. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

author: Arthur Conan Doyle

literary genre: detective fiction, short stories

81. The Remains of the Day

author: Kazuo Ishiguro

literary genre: historical novel

 

82. Madame Bowary

author: Gutave Flaubert

literary genre: realist novel, erotic literature

See you in next post!
//Zuzia

The Book List Challenge pt.4

Hello~!

Here's fourth part of list The Hundred Books Worth To Read.

If you haven't seen previous parts, check them on our blog.

Hope you'll enjoy it all :)

 

47. Anna Karenina

author: Leo Tolstoy

literary genre: realist novel

48. Vanity Fair

author: William Makepeace Thackeray

literary genre: novel

49. Persuasion

author: Jane Austen

literary genre: novel

50. The Lovely Bones

author: Alice Sebold

literary genre: novel

51. The Shadow of the Wind

author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

literary genre: mystery

52. Crime and Punishment

author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

literary genre: philosophical novel, psychological novel

53. A Clockwork Orange

author: Anthony Burgess

literary genre: science fiction, satire, dystopian fiction

54. His Dark Materials

author: Philip Pullman

literary genre: science fiction, high fantasy

55. Winnie-the-Pooh

author: A. A. Milne

literary genre: children's literature

56. Anne of Green Gables

author: L. M. Montgomery

literary genre: novel

57.  Lolita

author: Vladimir Nabokov

literary genre: novel

58. The Five People You Meet in Heaven

author: Mitch Albom

literary genre: religious fiction, philosophicial fiction

59. A Prayer for Owen Meany

author: John Irving

literary genre: bildungsroman

 

60. On The Road

author: Jack Kerouac

literary genre: beat generation

61. Moby-Dick or the Wale

author: Herman Melville

literary genre: novel, adventure fiction, epic, sea story, encyclopedic novel

62. The Color Purple

author: Alice Walker

literary genre: epistolary novel

63. Emma

author: Jane Austen

literary genre: novel of manners

 

64. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

author: Mark Haddon

literary genre: mystery novel

 

See you in next post!

//Zuzia

The Book List Challenge pt.3

Hello~!

Here's third part of list The Hundred Books Worth To Read.

If you haven't seen previous parts, check it there:

part 1 -> http://e-storehouse.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-book-list-challenge-pt1.html

part 2 -> http://e-storehouse.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-book-list-challenge-pt2.html

   

29. One Hundred Years of Solitude

author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

literary genre: magic realism

30. The Chronicles of Narnia

author: C. S. Lewis

literary genre: fantasy

31. Memoirs of a Geisha

author:  Arthur Golden

literary genre: historical novel

32. Sense and Sensibility

author: Jane Austen

literary genre: romance

33. The Kite Runner

author: Khaled Hosseini

literary genre: historical fiction, drama

34. A Christmas Carol

author: Charles Dickens

literary genre: novella

35. Dracula

author: Bram Stoker

literary genre: gothic horror

36. Love in the Time of Cholera

author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

literary genre: novel

37. Of Mice and Men

author: John Steinbeck

literary genre: novella

38. The Three Musketeers

author: Alexandre Dumas

literary genre: historical novel

39. Holy Bible

author: ~~~

literary genre: ~~~

40. The Time Traveler's Wife

author: Audrey Niffenegger

literary genre: science fiction, romance

41. Bridget Jones's Diary

author: Helen Fielding

literary genre: comedy novel

42. The Grapes of Wrath

author: John Steinbeck

literary genre: novel

43. Great Expectation

author: Charles Dickens

literary genre: novel

44. Heart of Darkness

author: Joseph Conrad

literary genre: novella

45. Brave New World

author: Aldous Huxley

literary genre: science fiction, dystopian fiction

 

46. Midnight's Children

author: Salman Rushdie

literary genre: magic realism, historiographic metafiction

 

See you in next part~!

/Zuzia

The Book List Challenge pt.2

Hello~!

Here's second part of list The Hundred Books Worth To Read.

If you haven't seen the first part, check it there -> http://e-storehouse.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-book-list-challenge-pt1.html

 

 

 

 

11. The Hobbit

author: J.R.R. Tolkien

literary genre: fantasy, adventure

 

12. Lord of the Flies

author: William Golding

literary genre: allegorical novel

 

13. The Count of Monte Cristo

author: Alexandre Dumas

literary genre: historical novel, adventure

 

14. A Tale of Two Cities

author: Charles Dickens

literary genre: historical novel

 

15. Life of Pi

author: Yann Martel

literary genre: adventure

 

16. Pride and Prejudice

author: Jane Austen

literary genre: novel

 

17. Jane Eyre

author: Charlotte Bronte

literary genre: novel

 

18. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

author: Ddouglas Adams

literary genre: comedy, science fiction

 

19. The Catcher in the Rye

author: J. D. Salinger

literary genre: coming-of-age fiction, realistic fiction

 

20. Little Women

author: Louisa May Alcott

literary genre: comin-of-age fiction, bildungsroman

 

21. Rebecca

author: Daphne du Maurier

literary genre: crime, gothic, mystery

 

22. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

author: Lewis Carroll

literary genre: fantasy, children's fiction

 

23. Gone with the Wind

author: Margaret Mitchell

literary genre: historical fiction

 

24. Charlotte's Web

author: E. B. White

literary genre: children's novel

 

25. The Secret Garden

author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

literary genre: children's novel

 

26. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

author: Roald Dahl

literary genre: children's novel, fantasy

 

27. Atonement

author: Ian McEwan

literary genre: metafiction

 

28. The Great Gatsby

author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

literary genre: novel

 

 

See you in next part!

/Zuzia

The Book List Challenge pt.1

Hello everyone~!

Today I have first part of another list - The Hundred Books Worth To Read. Some of them was in my previous lists, but I think it isn't something bad ;)

Some people disagree with this list, but in my opinion, you just should look on this and decide, which one you'll read (because I really hope that you'll choose though one).

 

 

 

1. The Harry Potter Series

author: J.K. Rrowling

literary genre: fantasy, young adult fiction

 

2. The Da Vinci Code

author: Dan Brown

literary genre: detective fiction, thriller

 

3. To Kill a Mockingbird

author: Harper Lee

literary genre: southern gothic, bildungsroman

 

4. Animal Farm

author: George Orwell

literary genre: political satire

 

5. The Little Prince

author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

literary genre: short story

 

6.1984

author: George Orwell

literary genre: dystopian, political fiction

 

7. The Lord Of The Rings

author: J.R.R. Tolkien

literary genre: fantasy, adventure

 

8. Catch-22

author: Joseph Heller

literary genre: satire, black humor, absurdist fiction

 

9. Wuthering Heights

author: Emily Bronte

literary genre: novel

 

10. The Alchemist

author: Paulo Coelho

literary genre: adventure, fantasy

 

 

See you in next parts!

The Windup Girl

author: Paolo Bacigalupi

literary genre: science fiction, biopunk

how much I recommend this book: 10/10

 



23rd-century Thailand.
Global warming has raised the levels of world's oceans.
Biotechnology is dominant and megacorporations like AgriGen, PruCal and RedStar (called calorie companies) control food production through 'genhacked' seeds and use bioterrorism and private armies to create markets for their products.
Anderson Lake is a representative of AgriGen in Thailand.
Emiko is an illegal japanese 'windup' girl, a representative of 'new race of human'.
In this crazy world, where everyone think only how to survive or get big money. Sounds familiar? Don't worry, this book is really unexpected and exciting.
Hope you'll enjoy it!

see you in next post~!
/zuzia


 

23 Books For Fans of Horrors

23 books for fans of horrors, I hope that you'll enjoy in ;)

1. Bram Stoker - Dracula
2. Edgar Allan Poe - Short Stories
3. H.P Lovecraft - Short Stories
4. Mery Shelley - Frankenstein
5. Stephen King - The Shining
6. Jack Ketchum - The Girl Next Door
7. I. Levin - Rosemary's Baby
8. F. Paul Wilson - The Keep
9. Dan Simmons - Carrion Comfort
10. Stephen King - Pet Sematary
11. Graham Masterton - Manitou
12. Stephen King - It
13. Wilkie Collins - The Haunted Hotel
14. Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
15. Dan Simmons - Drood
16. Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire
17. Alfred Kubin - The Other Side
18. Dan Simmons - Terror
19. Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
20. Gustav Mering - Golem
21. Dean Koontz - Whispers
22. William H. Hallahan - The Monk
23. Michael Crichton - Eaters of the Dead

Based on ranking from "Mechanical Culture":
http://www.mechaniczna-kulturacja.pl/2016/07/top-25-najlepsze-horrory-ksiazki.html

7ew

author: Neal Stephenson

literary genre: science fiction

how much I recommend this book: 10/10

Have you ever thought what would happen if the moon explodes? No? Me too. Until I started to read this book.

It turns out that this explosion has tragic results. From one moon appear 7 parts, then 8, then more and more and more...

No one is safe. 

There's only 2 years before end of the world.

The last chance for humanity are space stations. 

It's true that this book is hard and full of technical vocabulary, but believe me - all hours that you'll spend on this book will be amazing. Author in brillant way tells his wision of ending world and people who try to survive. 

If you like hard science fiction, it's perfect you you!

Anyway, I recommend it to all of you.

Hope you'll enjoy it!

See you in next post~!

/Zuzia

The Top 20 Crime Novels of All Time

Hello :)

Today I have another list for you. It's The Top 20 Crime Novels of All Time made by Crime Writers' Association in 1990. Have you ever read some of them? If not, I hope you'll try although one of them.

1. The Doughter of Time by Josephine Tey (1951)
2. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)
3.  The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John le Carre (1963)
4. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers (1935)
5. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1926)
6. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
7. Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (1940)
8. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)
9. The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton (1962)
10. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammet (1930)
11. The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey (1948)
12. Last Seen Wearing... by Hillary Waugh (1952)
13. The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco (1980)
14. Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (1939)
15. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (1953)
16. Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles (1931)
17. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (1971)
18. The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Ll. Sayers (1934)
19. Ten Little Niggers (or And Then There Were None) by Agatha Christie (1939)
20. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)

See you in next post!

/Zuzia

Ten Young Adult Books for Your Summer Reading List

Hello~!

The summer is coming, and you know what it mean? More free time!

For me, it's more free time for reading books. I hope that you'll read something, too. I created a list of young-adult fiction books, that you can check and maybe read at your free time. 

Here's the list:

1. City Of The Bones (The Mortal Instruments) by Cassandra Clare (trilogy, fantasy)
2. Divergent by Veronica Roth (trilogy, fantasy, science-fiction)
3. The Faul In Our Stars by John Green (realistic fiction)
4. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (romance)
5. Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (series of four books, fantasy)
6. The Selection by Kiera Cass (romance)
7. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi (dystopian, thriller, romance)
8. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (coming-of-age)
9. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (historical fiction, thriller)
10. Seraphina by Rachel Hartman (fantasy)

See you in next post~!

/Zuzia

Fifteen Books That You Have To Read Before Death

Hello~!

Today I have something unusual for you!

It's not going to be another description of book, but a list made by specialist, of Fifteen Books That You Have To Read Before Death.

1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
2. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
4. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
5. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
6. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
7. The Plague by Albert Camus
8. The Trial by Franz Kafka
9. Beloved by Toni Morrison
10. One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
11. Sanatorium Under The Sign of The Hourglass and The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
12. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
13. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
14. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
15. Animal Farm by George Orwell

I haven't read all of them, yet, so now I'm going to my library, hoping you'll do the same.

See you in next post ;D

/Zuzia

The Little Prince

author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
literary genre: short story
how much I recommend this book: 8/10

Please, don't tell me that you didn't read this book - it's one of those that all people HAVE TO read. But if you haven't done this yet, don't worry. It's never to late!

Maybe you think that it's story only for children, but then you're so wrong. 

It's really short, funny and I'm pretty sure, that you'll ejnoy it. So, why won't you try it? It's fast to read, too, so it won't steal you too much time.

I greet and encourage you all to try this one.

See you in next post!

/Zuzia

The Book Thief

author: Markus Zusak
literary genre: novel-historical fiction
how much I recommend this book: 10/10

Have you ever read a story told by Death? No? You don't know what you're losing.

If you never read book like this one, you should do it as soon as it's possible!

The Book Thief centers on Liesel Meminger's life. She's a fourteen-years-old German girl, who lived during World War II.

Her younger brother died, she has to live in another city where she don't know anyone and everything around is changing.

One day she stole her first book - but believe me, not last.

Really colorful, sad and emotional story - I really hope you'll like it.

See you in next post!

/Zuzia

The One Who Walk Away From Omelas

author: Ursula K. Le Guin
literary genre: short story (philosophical fiction)
how much I recommend this book: 10/10

Omelas is an utopian city, where everyone is happy and don't worry about anything.

Everyone, expect of one child. People don't know about him - or just act like they don't know. This story is full of symbolism, hidden messages and philosophy. I think that it isn't book for everyone, but why won't you try it? Maybe it's perfect for you.

~curiosity~

Theme of utopian Omelas was used by korean band, BTS, in their music videos and short film added to complete the story behind mvs. If you want to watch it, here's the links ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i34dFsjRY4

(short film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEeFrLSkMm8

(music video)

Hhope you'll enjoy it :D

See you in next post!

/Zuzia

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

author: Stephen King
literary genre: horror
how much I recommend this book: 10/10

A collection of short novels writed by Stephen King. As always - scary, keeping and tension and really adictive.

In this published in 2015 book are twenty amazing stories:

1. Mile 81
2. Premium Harmony
3. Batman and Robin Have an Altercation
4. The Dune
5. Bad Little Kid
6. A Death
7. The Bone Church
8. Morality
9. Afterlife
10. Ur
11. Herman Wouk  Is Still Alive
12. Under The Weather
13. Blockade Billy
14. Mister Yummy
15. Tommy
16. The Little Green God of Agony
17. That Bus Is Another World
18. Obits
19. Drunken Fireworks
20. Summer Thunder

My favourites ones are: The Dune, Morality, Afterlife and Under The Weather. How about you? I hope you'll read it all and decide which ones you like the most - because its really worth.

See you in next post ;)

/Zuzia

The Old Man and the Sea

author: Ernest Hemingway
literary genre: literary fiction
how much I recommend this book: 10/10

The Old Man and the Sea is a cult shirt novel written by Ernest Hemingway, that everyone should know. 

It's a story about battle between old but hard-working and persistent man and a large marlin.
I know that thin novel isn't for everyone - a lot of people won't understand that. Anyway, I'm sure that even if it looks boring, you sould give it a chance.

I greet and encourage you to read.
Hope that you'll try it and enjoy it :)
See you in next post!

Quidditch Through the Ages

author: J.K. Rowling
literary genre: fantasy
how much I recommend this book: 10/10

Quidditch Through the Ages is a book written by J.K. Rowling using the pseudonym of Kennilworthy Whisp and is about wizards game called quidditch from the Harry Potter universe - it's a copy of book used by Harry.

The book consists of:

• Foreword
• Chapter 1: The Evolution of the Flying Broomstick
• Chapter 2: Ancient Broom Games
• Chapter 3: The Game From Queerditch Marsh
• Chapter 4: The Arrival of the Golden Snitch
• Chapter 5: Anti-Muggle Precautions
• Chapter 6: Changes in Quidditch Since the Fourteenth Century
• Chapter 7: Quidditch Teams of Britain and Ireland
• Chapter 8: The Spread of Quidditch Worldwide
• Chapter 9: The Development of the Racing Broom
• Chapter 10: Quidditch Today

I think it's something really special for Harry Potter's fans. 

Hope you'll enjoy it :)

See you in next post!

//Zuzia

The Maze Runner

author: James Dashner
literary genre: young adult fiction, science fiction
how much I recommend this book: 7/10

Thomas wakes up in the dark, metal lift. Only one thing that he remember is his name. He meets some boys, probably in his age. They say that the place where they are is a Glade, in the middle of maze. He wants to know more about maze and Glade, but everyone is misterious and quiet. When Thomas is trying to understand the new world when he have to live, in Glade appear first girl ever. Sshe had a message, that everything is going to change.

Really well writen, you'll can't stop reading until you end.

Hope that you'll enjoy it :D

Ssee you in next post!

//Zuzia

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

author: Ransom Riggs
literary genre: young adult literature, dark fantasy
how much I recommend this book: 10/10

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a debut novel by Ransom Riggs, an american author.

Jacob Portman is sure that his life is going to always be boring and usual. Everything changes, when something murder his grandad, Abraham, and only he saw what it was.
His parents don't believe in things that he's saying - that the killer was a monster. After some time, Jacob agreed with them and start thinking that he's going to be crazy. He go to the psychiatrist, Dr. Golan.
They decide toghether, that Jacob should visit little island in Wales.
There he discovered, that scary stories that he heard from his grandad in childhood aren't that false as he thought.

Even if this book is weird, you'll definitely fall in love with it. I'm sure.
Hope you'll enjoy it :)

See you in next post!
//Zuzia