Sunday, January 20, 2013

William Shakespeare


William Shakespeare  (-26 April 1564 (baptised ) – 23 April 1616)

1 The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1589–1591)

2 The Taming of the Shrew (1590–1594)

3 Henry VI, Part 2 (1590–1591)

4 Henry VI, Part 3 (1591)

5 Henry VI, Part 1 (1591)

6 Titus Andronicus (1591–1592)

7 Richard III (1592–1593)

8 Edward III[25] (1594)

9 The Comedy of Errors (1594)

10 Love's Labour's Lost (1594–1595)

11 Love's Labour's Won (1595–1596)

12 Richard II (1595)

13 Romeo and Juliet (1595)

14 A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

15 The Life and Death of King John (1596)

16 The Merchant of Venice (1596)

17 Henry IV, Part 1 (1596–1597)

18 The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597–1598)

19 Henry IV, Part 2 (1596–1597)

20 Much Ado About Nothing (1598–1599)

21 Henry V (1598–1599)

22 Julius Caesar (1599)

23 As You Like It (1599–1600)

24 Hamlet (1599–1601)

25 Twelfth Night (1601)

26 Troilus and Cressida (1602)

27 Measure for Measure (1603–1604)

28 Othello (1603–1604)

29 King Lear (1605–1606)

30 Timon of Athens (1605–1606)

31 Macbeth (1606)

32 Antony and Cleopatra (1606)

33 All's Well That Ends Well (1606–1607)

34 Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1607)

35 Coriolanus (1608)

36 The Winter's Tale (1609–1610)

37 Cymbeline (1610–1611)

38 The Tempest (1610–1611)

39 Cardenio (1612–1613)

40 Henry VIII, or All is True (1613)

41 The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613)

Saturday, January 19, 2013

2013 In Books

EXCELLENT READS
Neal Shüsterman
Skinjacker Trilogy
1. Everlost (2006)
2. Everwild (2009)
3. Everfound (2011)

REALLY GOOD READS
I, Robot (1950) Isaac Asimov

GOOD READS
Warm Bodies (2010) Isaac Marion
The Caves of Steel (1954) Isaac Asimov
Slan (1946) A. E. Van Vogt GOLDEN AGE


OK READS
1. Beautiful Creatures (2009) Kami Garcia
The Flint Heart l by John Paterson and Katherine Paterson 2011


POOR READS
Foundation (1951) aka The 1,000 Year Plan Isaac Asimov
1. The Spook's Apprentice (2004) aka Revenge of the Witch Joseph Delaney

Series Started
Paul Crilley
Invisible Order
1. Rise of the Darklings (2010)
2. The Fire King (2011)

Alexander Gordon Smith
Escape from Furnace
1. Lockdown (2009)
2. Solitary (2009)
3. Death Sentence (2009)
4. Fugitives (2010)
5. Execution (2011)
The Night Children (2011
The Fury (2012)

Patrick Ness
Chaos Walking
1. The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008)
2. The Ask and the Answer (2009)
3. Monsters of Men (2010)


Neal Shüsterman

Unwind
1. Unwind (2007)
2. UnWholly (2012)
UnStrung (2012) (with Michelle Knowlden)

Most antispated Sequels from these authors
Arcade Catastrophe (2012) Brandon Mull (OUT NOW) 1. The Candy Shop War (2007)
Unlucky Charms (2013) Adam Rex FEB 5th 2013 1. Cold Cereal (2012)
The Silver Dream (2013) Neil Gaiman (Apr 23, 2013) 1. Interworld (2007)

Michael Vey
1. The Prisoner of Cell 25 (2011)
2. Rise of the Elgen (2012)
Michael Vey 3 by Richard Paul Evans(Sep 10, 2013)

New SERIES
The Reluctant Assassin (2013) Eoin Colfer 5/7/13
Sylo (2013) D J MacHale 7/2/13
The Eye of Minds (2013) James Dashner 10/8/13

SEQUALS TO LOOK OUT FOR
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)
Untitled Miss Peregrine Sequel by Ransom Riggs(Jan 14, 2014)

Hero/Mike Lupica
Time Snatchers/Richard Ungar

Being Made into a movie
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) Max Brooks

Cassandra Clare
Mortal Instruments
1. City of Bones (2007

The Host (2008) Stephennie Meyer

Here Be Monsters! (2005) written and illustrated by Alan Snow.

 Veronica Roth
Insurgent Trilogy
1. Divergent (2011)
2. Insurgent (2012)
Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Story (2012)


STARTED First book BUT NOT FINISHEDYET
Jacqueline West
Books of Elsewhere
1. The Shadows (2010)
2. Spellbound (2011)
3. The Second Spy (2012)
4. The Strangers (2013)

Catherynne M Valente
Fairyland
The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While (2011)
1. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (2011)
2. The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (2012)
3. The Girl Who Flew to Fairyland and Back Again (2013)


James Patterson
Daniel X
1. Dangerous Days of Daniel X (2008) (with Michael Ledwidge)
2. Watch the Skies (2009) (with Ned Rust)
3. Demons and Druids (2010) (with Adam Sadler)
4. Game Over (2011) (with Ned Rust)
5. Armageddon (2012) (with Chris Grabenstein)
Alien Hunter (2008) (with Leopoldo Gout)

Bryan Chick
Secret Zoo
1. The Secret Zoo (2007)
2. Secrets and Shadows (2011)
3. Riddles and Danger (2011)
4. Traps and Specters (2012)
5. Raids and Rescues (2013)

David Klass
Caretaker Trilogy
1. Firestorm (2006)
2. Whirlwind (2008)
3. Timelock (2009)

Stuck on Earth (2010)

WANT TO READ/REREAD

Isaac Asimov 1920-1992 Grand master (1987) GOLDEN AGE
Empire
1. Pebble in the Sky (1950)
2. The Stars Like Dust (1951)
3. The Currents of Space (1952)

The End of Eternity (1955) *

••The Naked Sun (1957) Isaac Asimov

The Complete Robot (1982)
Robot Dreams (1986)
Robot Visions (1990)

•The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973)
•The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986)
•The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov! (1989)

Mickey Zucker Reichert (1962 - )
Isaac Asimov's I, Robot
1. To Protect (2011)
2. To Obey (2013)

William Joyce
Guardians of Childhood Picture Books
The Man in the Moon (2011)
The Sandman (2012)

Guardians of Childhood
1. Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare (2011)
2. E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs At the Earth's Core! (2012)
3. Toothiana, Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies (2012)
4. The Sandman and the War of Dreams (2013)
The Guardians (omnibus) (2012)

Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu 2011

James Patterson
Teen Detective (with Maxine Paetro)
1. Confessions of a Murder Suspect (2012)

SERIES TO REVISIT
Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and the Olympians
1. The Lightning Thief (2005)
2. The Sea of Monsters (2006)
3. The Titan's Curse (2007)
4. The Battle of the Labyrinth (2008)
5. The Last Olympian (2009)
Kane Chronicles
1. The Red Pyramid (2010)
2. The Throne of Fire (2011)
3. The Serpent's Shadow (2012)
The Kane Chronicles Survival Guide (2012)

Heroes of Olympus
1. The Lost Hero (2010)
2. The Son of Neptune (2011)
3. The Mark of Athena (2012)
The Demigod Diaries (2012)
World Book Day 2009 (with Terry Deary)
Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades / Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks (2009)

Dean Koontz
Odd Thomas
1. Odd Thomas (2003)
2. Forever Odd (2005)
3. Brother Odd (2006)
4. Odd Hours (2008)
5. Odd Apocalypse (2012)
6. Deeply Odd (2013)
In Odd We Trust (2008) (with Queenie Chan)
Odd Is on Our Side (2010) (with Fred Van Lente)

Odd Interlude
1. Odd Interlude Part One (2012)
2. Odd Interlude Part Two (2012)
3. Odd Interlude Part Three (2012)
Odd Interlude (2012)



Pseudonymous Bosch
The Name of This Book Is Secret (2007)
is based on smell,
If You're Reading This, It's Too Late (2008) is based on sound,
This Book Is Not Good for You (2009)
is based on taste,
This Isn't What It Looks Like (2010)
 is based on sight
This Book Is Not Yet Titled (2011)
is based on touch

Cosmic (2008) Cottrell Boyce
Mockingjay (2010)   Suzanne Collins
The Kill Order (2012) James Dashner
Ghost Knight (2011) Cornelia Funke

Pittacus Lore
Lorien Legacies
1.
I Am Number Four (2010)
2.
The Power of Six (2011)
3.
The Rise of Nine (2012)

 J T Petty
Clemency Pogue
1. Fairy Killer (2005)
2. The Hobgoblin Proxy (2006)
3. The Scrivener Bees (2007)

The True Meaning of Smekday (2007) Adam Rex

Trenton Lee Stewart
Mysterious Benedict Society 
1. The Mysterious Benedict Society (2007)
2. The Perilous Journey (2008)
3. The Prisoner's Dilemma (2009)
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict (2012)

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Arthur Hood

 
Howard Pyle
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883)
Otto of the Silver Hand (1888)
Men of Iron (1892)
Twilight Land (1894)
The Garden Behind the Moon (1895)
Pepper and Salt (1885)
The Wonder Clock (1888)
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates (1903)
 
Round Table
1.
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903)
2. The Story of the Champions of the Round Table (1905)
3. The Story of Lancelot and His Companions (1907)
4. The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur (1910)

Tales of Pirates and Buccaneers (1908)
The Ruby of Kishmoor (1908)
 
Geraldine McCaughrean 
 
 
Robin Hood Tales

Walter Scott
 Ivanhoe  (1819)

 

Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock, 1822.
Robin Hood le proscrit by Alexandre Dumas, 1863.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle, 1883.
Robin Hood and His Merry Outlaws by J. Walker McSpadden, 1891.
Robin Hood by Henry Gilbert, 1912.
Robin Hood by Paul Creswick, 1917.
 
Robin of Sherwood
1. Robin of Sherwood (1984)
2. Robin of Sherwood and the Hounds of Lucifer (1985) (with Robin May)
3. The Hooded Man (1986) (with Anthony Horowitz)
4. Time of the Wolf (1988)
The Complete Adventures of Robin of Sherwood (omnibus) (1990) (with Anthony Horowitz and Robin May)
 
The Outlaws of Sherwood (1988) Robin McKinley
 
 
The Fantastic Adventures of Robin Hood Anthology by Martin H Greenberg 1991
 
Kathryn Lasky
Robin Hood: The Boy Who Became a Legend (1999)
Hawksmaid The Untold Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian  (2009)
 
Clayton Emery
Tales Of Robin Hood
1. Robin Hood and The Beasts Of Sherwood (2001)
Tales of Robin Hood (1988)
Robin Hood And The Bells Of London (2009)
 
Stephen Lawhead (1950 - )
King Raven
1. Hood (2006)
2. Scarlet (2007)
3. Tuck (2009)
King Raven Trilogy (omnibus) (2009)
 
Michael Morpurgo
Outlaw The Story of Robin Hood (2012)
 
 
Arthur Tales
Sidney Lanier (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881)
The Boy's King Arthur (1880)
 
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (1889)
 
King Arthur and his Knights (1903) by Maude Radford
 
War in Heaven (1930) by Charles W. S. Williams, a "modern-day" (20th century) quest for the Holy Grail
 
T H White
Once and Future King
1. The Sword in the Stone (1938)
2. The Witch in the Wood (1939) aka The Queen of Air and Darkness
3. The Ill-made Knight (1940)
4. The Once and Future King (omnibus) (1958)
5. The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King (1977)
 
Roger Green
King Arthur and His knights of the Round Table  1953
 
 
 
Mary Stewart
Merlin / Arthurian Saga
1. The Crystal Cave (1970)
2. The Hollow Hills (1973)
3. The Last Enchantment (1979)
4. The Wicked Day (1983)
 
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1975) by John Steinbeck
 
The Mists of Avalon (1983) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
 
Jane Yolen
 
YA Young Merlin MG
1.
Passager (1996)
2.
Hobby (1996)
3.
Merlin (1997)
 
 
 
Stephen Lawhead
Pendragon Cycle
1. Taliesin (1987)
2. Merlin (1988)
3. Arthur (1989)
4. Pendragon (1994)
5. Grail (1997)
 
Robin Lister 
The Story of King Arthur (1988)
 
T A Barron (Thomas A Barron) (1952 - )
Merlin
1. The Lost Years (1996) aka The Lost Years of Merlin
2. The Seven Songs (1997) aka The Seven Songs of Merlin
3. The Raging Fires (1998) aka The Fires of Merlin
4. The Mirror of Fate (1999) aka The Mirror of Merlin
5. A Wizard's Wings (2000) aka The Wings of Merlin
6. The Dragon of Avalon (2008) aka Merlin's Dragon
7. Doomraga's Revenge (2009)
8. Ultimate Magic (2010)
9. The Great Tree of Avalon (2004) aka Child of the Dark Prophecy
10. Shadows on the Stars (2005)
11. The Eternal Flame (2006)

Gerald Morris
(1963 - )
Squire's Tales
1. The Squire's Tale (1998) aka Squire Terence and the Maiden's Knight
2. The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady (1999)
3. The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf (2000)
4. Parsifal's Page (2001)
5. The Ballad of Sir Dinadan (2003)
6. The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight (2004)
7. The Lioness and Her Knight (2005)
8. The Quest of the Fair Unknown (2006)
9. The Squire's Quest (2009)
10. The Legend of the King (2010)
 
Knights' Tales
1. The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great (2008)
2. The Adventures of Givret the Short (2008)
3. The Adventures of Sir Gawain the True (2011)
4. The Adventures of Sir Balin the Ill-Fated (2012)
 
Robert Holdstock
Merlin Codex
1. Celtika (2001)
2. The Iron Grail (2002)
3. The Broken Kings (2006)
 
The Book of Mordred (2005) Vivian Vande Velde
 
Avalon High, December 2005

Avalon High: Coronation
1. The Merlin Prophecy (2007)
2. Homecoming (2007)
3. Hunter's Moon (2009)
 
Philip Reeve
Here Lies Arthur (2007)
 
 
Anthony Horowitz
Legends
Battles and Quests (2010)
Beasts and Monsters (2010)
Death and the Underworld (2011)
Heroes and Villains (2011)
Tricks and Transformations (2012)
The Wrath of the Gods (2012)
 
Nils Johnson-Shelton
Otherworld Chronicles
1. The Invisible Tower (2011)
2. The Seven Swords (2013)
 

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