Rec List - Thanks Susanna for posting.

Keep in mind the answers can change tomorrow.

 

1. Favorite books in all categories: I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that my books out number me and I fear for my life should they find out the answer.

 

2. Start to a series: Kitty and the Midnight Hour or The Stepsister Scheme


3. By an author who's written over 5 books total: Possession by A. S. Byatt


4. Classic Literature - Outside of Homer and Shakespeare?  Scarlet Letter.


5. Banned Books: Jane Eyre and Little Red Riding Hood


6. Featuring an assassin - Red Hood's Revenge


7. In a world with Dragons - Dragonlance series or McCaffery's Dragons of Pern


8. Male Main Character - Thor


9. Female Main Character - Hero and the Crown or Book of Silence series by Horwood


10. Retelling of another story - Bloody Chamber


11. Book with a Gorgeous Cover Whitechapel Gods - I couldn't finish the book, but man that cover.


12. Debut book of any author-Seven Gothic Tales


13. Fantasy in general Lord of the Rings


14. Finale for a series- Snow Queen's Shadow


15. Graphic Novel - Nightmares and Fairy Tales series (or Bone).  But really Maus.


16. That you paid over $15 for (and was worth every penny) - Any of the Surlalune Fairy Tale Collections

 

17. Published after 2010 - A History of the World in 100 Objects


18. Featuring a Pricess/Prince or Queen/King: Presuming I can count Anicent Egypt here - Pauline Gedge's Egypt books or Ironside's She King Series.  or Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin


19. Thriller - I don't read much of these.  Um does Le Carre count?


20. You read because it was a bestseller - All the Light We Cannot See


21. Involving drugs - Cherie Priest's Clockwork Century Series


22. Memoir Things I've Been Silent About or My Life in France

 

23. Favorite completed series as a whole - The Duncton books by Horwood or The Black Stallion series or LOTR

 

24. Book with witches/warlocks  - Wryd Sisters


25. Historical Fiction - True Story of Hansel and Gretel


26. Ugly Cry book - Black Beauty or any book where a dog or a horse dies


27. Realistic Fiction Precious (Push)


28. Dystopia - Handmaid's Tale


29. Time Travel - Kindred by Bulter


30. Elf or Dwarf Main character - I have been happily married to Legolas for years, long before he was played by Orlando Bloom

 

31. Favorite incomplete series either by you or not yet finished by author - Kitty the Werewolf series, though that ends this summer.  Unless you count Discworld which will also when the last book comes out.

 

32. Literary Fiction- In particular works by Allende, Byatt, Ackroyd, Mantel, or Atwood


33. Non-Fiction (Anything, cookbook, self-help, etc) - Ruffian Burning From the Start or Little Horse of Iron


34. Middle Grade Novel - See, I don't know how to answer this question because I read Watership Down in third or fourth grade.  So Watership Down


35. Includes sword/knife fighting - Swordspoint


36. Something mysterious is afoot - Can't go wrong with a Ruth Rendell.  I really liked the Blood Doctor among others


37. Diverse Reads (main character non-white/non-straight) - Rhode Island Red 


38. Wanderlust book - Kerrigan in Copenhagen


39. Unreliable Narrator Instance at the Fingerpost 


40. Character with mental illness - Callanish


41. Sci-fi in general - Elizabeth Moon's various space opera series


42. Paranormal Main Character - Elena and Jamie from Women of the Otherworld


43. Horror - Uncle Silas


44. Books with murder in them - The Murder Room


45. Set in a time of war (real or fictional) - The Memory Man


46. Set in the place you live - On the Run


47. Book with servants in some manner  - Trollope (anything really)


48. Book eventually adapted to a movie LOTR, Watership Down, Hobbit, Three Musketeers


49. Book you've read more than once - Most of the ones I keep.  IN particular, Possession, LOTR, and Handmaid's Tale


50. A Good Zombie Book Feed


51. A love story Persuasion


52. Set in space Any Red Dwarf book


53. Multiple POV - Innocent Traitor


54. Erotic for people who don't read erotic novels - well not 50 Shades of Grey for sure.

 

55. Written by an author who has died (recently or a very long time ago) - Homer

 

56. Written by an author who is still living - What We See When We Read

 

57. Childhood favorite Serendipity

 

58. A long book (Let's say at least 450 pages minimum) Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell

 

59. Young Adult book in general - See #1 please.

 

60. Adult book in general - See #1 please