Posted December 29, 2014 by Michael @ Knowledge Lost in Top 5 / 18 Comments
It is that time of the year where we talk about the ‘best of’ 2014. When I say ‘best of’ I am referring to my favourites of the year. I have once again divided my list into books released in 2014, the backlist and non-fiction. I have done it this way because I have had a strong focus on non-fiction this year and want to recognise my favourites. I also don’t want my ‘best of’ list to be dominated by classics, thus the reason for the first two lists.
Top Five Reads from 2014
5. Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
4. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
3. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
2. Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
1. All That is Solid Melts into Air by Darragh McKeon
Top Five Reads from the Backlist in 2014
5. In The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4. The Odyssey by Homer
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
2. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1. Middlemarch by George Eliot
Top Five Non-Fiction Reads in 2014
5. What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
4. Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
3. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
2. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
1. The Dark Path: A Memoir by David Schickler
Now it is your turn to let me know of your favourite books, the new releases and the older books. It doesn’t matter; just what you discovered and loved.
Posted November 4, 2014 by Michael @ Knowledge Lost in Top Ten Tuesday / 22 Comments
It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Books I Want To Re-read. It has been awhile since I’ve participated in this meme but recently I stated that I planned on doing more re-reading next year. So I thought this might be a good chance to pick some books to re-read.
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Outsider by Albert Camus
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Posted October 23, 2014 by Michael @ Knowledge Lost in Top 5 / 26 Comments
As a book lover, I found that I get a lot of pleasure out of reading books about books. There is something about a book that revolves around other books that really works for me. Judging by the popularity of books like The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and more recently The Collected Works of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin I know I am not alone. I made a conscious effort to read more non-fiction this year and I quickly discovered a whole new genre that I enjoy; the bibliophile’s memoir. What could be better (also meta) than reading about someone reading, but be warned, it could also be damaging to your TBR list. So I thought I might offer five memoirs that people should read about reading and the reading life.
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Posted September 23, 2014 by Michael @ Knowledge Lost in Top Ten Tuesday / 45 Comments
Posted September 16, 2014 by Michael @ Knowledge Lost in Top Ten Tuesday / 30 Comments
It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Top Authors I’ve Only Read One Book From But NEED to Read More. I have a very bad habit of trying plenty of different authors and never returning to them. It isn’t because I don’t like the author but because I like to try a bit of everything. Here are some authors I’ve really enjoyed but have only read one book by them.
Posted August 26, 2014 by Michael @ Knowledge Lost in Top Ten Tuesday / 6 Comments
It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Books I Really Want To Read But Don’t Own Yet. I’m looking forward to going through my wishlist and picking ten books. So here we go;
- Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
- Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim
- The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
- The Librarian by Mikhail Elizarov
- A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli
- Candide by Voltaire
- The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
- Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine
- & Sons by David Gilbert
- The Parrots by Filippo Bologna
Posted August 19, 2014 by Michael @ Knowledge Lost in Top Ten Tuesday / 17 Comments
It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Books People Have Been Telling You That You MUST Read. I went through my Goodreads recommendations and picked ten books from there.
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec
- The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
- Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (mean people)
- The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
- On Literature by Umberto Eco
- My Beautiful Enemy by Cory Taylor
- Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
Posted August 12, 2014 by Michael @ Knowledge Lost in Top Ten Tuesday / 0 Comments
It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Books I’m Not Sure I Want To Read. These are ten books that are on my shelf but I’m lacking motivation to read them. I think I need to be convinced to one way or another.
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
- Tinkers by Paul Harding
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
- Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Posted August 5, 2014 by Michael @ Knowledge Lost in Top Ten Tuesday / 10 Comments
It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Books I’d Give To Readers Who Have Never Read Graphic Novels. I wrote a post recently for Boomergang Books and have also done a First Steps post on the topic but lets revisit the topic.
Posted July 29, 2014 by Michael @ Knowledge Lost in Top Ten Tuesday / 8 Comments
It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Ten Authors I Own The Most Books From. I don’t catalogue all the books I own very well so here are the authors I’ve read the most books from.
- Edgar Allan Poe
- James Ellroy
- Bryan Lee O’Malley
- Jeff Lindsay
- Raymond Chandler
- Stephen King
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Lawrence Block
- Philip K. Dick
- James M. Cain
Wow, that’s surprising and revealing
