All of which I recommend, many that I've used as examples throughout the other blog posts - enjoy! And I'm sure you have favorites well, so please share! While many titles seem to work with the post, I liked zoo, since each are separated by letter, in their own natural or perhaps unnatural dwelling, which made me think of a zoo! Each have influenced me to varying degrees over the year, but that doesn't make them tame by any means. Instead I'd like to think that while I may have a better understanding of each, I'd like to think they continue in the wild to be preyed upon by other readers hunting for a challenge, a companion, a guide, an assurance, and maybe just maybe a reliable tenant in their own zoo of authors to admire, and to apply to their experiences in their lives!
A - Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
B - Dan Brown - Da Vinci Code
C - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) - Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
D - Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach, Willy Wonka
E - Umberto Eco - Name of the Rose
F - Ken Follett - trilogy series
G - Neil Gaiman - American Gods, Sandman
H - Ernest Hemingway - Old Man and the Sea
I - John Irving - World According to Garp, Hotel New Hampshire
J - James Joyce - Ulysses, Dubliners
K - Stephen King - Duma Key, Dark Tower, IT, Stand
L - C S Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia
M - Haruki Murakami - On Music, classic tales
N - Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
O - Bill O'Reilly - the Killing series
P - Edgar Allan Poe - Raven, Tales of Rue Morgue
Q - Anna Quindlen - one of the most honored in Non-Fiction and Fiction
R - Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead
S - Dan Simmons - Drood, Terror
T - J R R Tolkien - Lord of the Rings, Hobbit
U - John Updike - Rabbit series
V - Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, Sirens of Titan
W - Tom Wolfe - Bonfire of the Vanities
X - Malcolm X - writings and activism
Y - W B Yeats - poetry of which he won the Nobel Prize
Z - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Shadow of the Wind
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ruiz_Zafón
Great list! and you finished!
ReplyDeleteGreat collection of authors and titles. We listened to the audio version of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Love that book!WeekendsInMaine
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