by John Christopher
Just re-read the first book, The White Mountains, and have skipped to the prequel, When the Tripods Came. This is a first-rate series. I read it something like 12 years ago. I'm interested in the idea of people willingly surrendering their will to the tripods.
what we've read, what we're reading, and what we might read next
in the stack: books I'm planning to read
- Beauty Will Save the World by Gregory Wolfe
- Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
- Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
- Campion by Evelyn Waugh
- One Second After by William Forstchen
- I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse by Michael Franzese
- The Song is You by Arthur Phillips
- Led by Faith by Imaculee Ilibagiza
- Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
- 100 Years of Solitude by GGM
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
- Lonely Hearts by John Harvey
- The Story of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
- Bang the Drum Slowly
- Provincial Lady books by E. M. Delafield
- Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
- The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni
- Elizabeth Gaskell: Wives and Daughters; North and South; Mary Barton
- H. Rider Haggard: She; Kind Solomon's Mines
- Dickens: Dombey and Son
- A Stolen Season by Steve Hamilton
- The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
- Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
- Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
- An Easy Way to Become a Saint by Fr. Paul Sullivan
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- sequels to Mutiny on the Bounty by Nordhoff & Hall
some favorites
- Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin series
- PG Wodehouse: many many titles
- Jane Austen's 6 novels
- Ring Lardner: You Know Me Al
- Josephine Tey: The Franchise Affair; Brat Farrar
- The Provincial Lady in America by E. M. Delafield
- George Smiley books by John le Carre
- A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Colin Dexter: Inspector Morse mysteries
- Agatha Christie (esp. Miss Marple)
- Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone; The Woman in White
- Ngaio Marsh mysteries
- Bruce Marshall: The World, The Flesh, and Father Smith
- Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight
- James Herriot: All Creatures Great and Small series
- Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Charles Dickens
casually suggested
- Joseph Heller: Catch 22
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- Elizabeth Peters Egyptian series
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- Ramage series
- Horatio Hornblower series
- Elizabeth Ironside (mystery)
- Deborah Crombie (mystery)
- Iain Pears' "Art History Mysteries"
good books for kids
Index of authors & genres
- anthology
- austen
- barnard
- barry
- baseball
- book swap
- bowen
- bruce marshall
- c graham
- carlon
- Catholic
- christie
- classics
- connolly
- craig
- crawford
- crime
- crispin
- crombie
- delafield
- detective
- dexter
- dickens
- dombey and son
- edwin o'connor
- favorites
- felony and mayhem
- fitness
- flannery o'connor
- forbes
- franzese
- george eliot
- godden
- greene
- hair
- hardy
- harvey
- hemon
- herriot
- highsmith
- history
- hope
- humor
- hunter
- ironside
- juvenile
- karen
- killilea
- klavan
- knight
- kohn
- lardner
- le carre
- leon
- lewis
- malamud
- mark harris
- marsh
- massey
- meyer
- moody
- mystery
- neufeld and mata
- noakes
- nordhoff and hall
- ollestad
- parenting
- patrick o'brian
- pd james
- pears
- percy
- phillips
- plus
- politics
- pope
- rankin
- running
- sanderson
- sayers
- schecter
- schuler
- sci-fi
- sea books
- siegle and hartzell
- sienkiewicz
- spiritual
- stark
- steve hamilton
- steyn
- strunk and white
- tey
- thriller
- twain
- undset
- vine
- walsh
- walter miller
- walters
- waugh
- westlake
- wilkie collins
- winspear
- winton
- wodehouse
- writing
- yardley
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