Hidden Treasures Reading List V.01

If you don't know what this is for, just look at the post on Reading Contest! Or, head over to West of Mars for more information!

Hidden Treasures Reading List:


Henry Miller - The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
Karel Capek - Absolute at Large
Albert Cossery - Proud Beggars
Harold Maine - If a Man be Mad
Andre Breton - Mad Love
Henry Martin - The Mad Days of Me: Escaping Barcelona
Donald E. Westlake - The Dortumunder series (What's So Funny? the last book
was released in April I think)

Richard Stark (Westlake's pen name) -- The Parker series (Ask the Parrot, the
last book was released late last year)

Beauty by Robin McKinley
The Restorer by Sharon Hinck

The Rise of the Dibor by Christopher Hopper

Whiskey Sour by JA Konrath

The Naming by Alison Croggon

Isle of Swords by Wayne Thomas Batson
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathaniel West
Angels - Denis Johnson (not as beloved on my part as "Jesus' Son," but still pretty damn good. I also recommend his collected poems, "The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nation's Millennium General Assembly"
Beneath the Underdog -- autobiography of Charles Mingus
The Sound & The Fury and As I Lay Dying (have these ever made a bestseller's list? In a perfect world, yes, but otherwise I doubt it).
Wide Sargasso Sea -- Jean Rhys (I'd also recommend her other novels. Depressing as hell, but damn good reads ... especially if you're depressed!)
All I know of love - Katie Schneider
Stigmata: A Novel - Phyllis Alesia Perry
Zahrah the Windseeker - Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
The Passion of Mary Magdalen and Magdalen Rising by Elizabeth Cunningham
Speak Right On: Dred Scott A Novel by Mary E. Neighbour

Virginia Fellows book The Shakespeare Code (historical fiction)
Amy Lignor book The Heart of a Legend (historical fiction)
Pam Jenoff book The Kommandant's Girl (historical fiction)
Amy Lignor book Mind Made (science fiction)
Hepler & Barkely book The Dream Factory (young adult)
The Right Thing by James Richard Larson



Contributors: Jennifer Estep, Henry Martin, Wayne Thomas Batson, Steven Lee Beeber, Karen Morse, Sabrina Williams, Amy Lignor



Hidden Treasures Prize List:
A signed Hardcover of Henry Martin's Mad Days of Me
A signed trade paperback of Jennifer Estep's Karma Girl
A signed copy of Isle of Swords, by Wayne Batson
Three copies of Mind Made and two copies of Heart of a Legend, all by Amy Lignor
A copy of the hard-to-find (a true treasure!) book, The Cobra & The Concubine, by Bonnie Vanak
An autographed copy of Cut to the Bone, along with some autographed bookmarks, from Shane Gericke