H2G2 Bookworms Club
Created | Updated Apr 27, 2003
Grab yourself a or a and settle down on a big squashy sofa with a good book. Here's a place to post reviews to books you've read, discuss things with other readers or just have a chat.
Vaguely relevent Guide Entries.
This is a list of links to all the enteries that will make you want to turn off the computer and read a book... If I've missed any please post below. I'm still working on the entry list, so please let me know if I've missed your favourite.
- Books
- Films based on Books
- American Libraries
- What's the best book you’ve ever read?
What happened when the H2G2 community was asked what the best book they'd ever read was - Adult Comic Books
- American Superhero Comic Books
- Print On-Demand Book Publishing
- The Obscene Publications Act, 1857
- International Standard Book Number
- Do-It-Yourself Fairy Tale Kit
- Concepts from Fiction
- Films of books have three purposes...
- Fairy Tales
Children's Books and Authors
- Molesworth BooksNot just for children these books are a spoof of boarding school stories
- The Tom Swift BooksAn American Series of tales about the Tom Swift, an inventor and genius
- Watership DownAnother book that's enjoyed by adults, a tale of a group of rabbits that leave their home and search for a new home.
- The Cherry Ames BooksA series about the adventures of a young American Nurse
Beatrix Potter Needs no introduction, as her tales of the Adventures on clothed farm animals have been part of nearly everyone's childhood.- Graeme BaseAn authour of impressive children's picture books.
- 'The Carpet People' by Terry PratchettWritten for children, read by adults.
- Diana Wynne Jones - Author A writer of fantasy for children and adults.
- John Bellairs - Author
- Harry Potter Does this really need an introduction?
- Astrid Lindgren - AuthorPippi Longstocking's creator
- The Life and Works of Enid Blyton.A shameless plug for entry written by the editor.
- CS LewisThe Creator of Narnia
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- The Life and Works of JRR Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings - the Animated Adventure
- Hobbits
- The Major Villains of 'The Lord of the Rings'
- The Wheel of Time The long running fantasy series by Robert Jordan
- Terry Pratchett's DiscworldThe fantasy series set on a flat world on the back of an elephant.
- Neil Gaiman's Sandman
- The Complete RobotOne of the classic Science Fiction Authours
- Andi Watson Comic's CreatonAuthor of both fantasy, and more realistic comic
- Anne McCaffrey - Author
Bram Stoker - AuthorThe writer of the classic Dracula books- Kurt Vongutt
- David and Leigh Eddings - AuthorsHusband a wife team of Scifiandfanstasy
- Stephen R Lawhead
- Kurt Vonnegut the authour of slaughterhouse 5, this is just an outline of his work if anyone would like to write a more detailed entry please let us know.
Tolkien
Others
Novels
- The Virgin SucidesA book and later a film.
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The romantic novels of Georgette Heyer
Luke RhinehartAn innovative authour whose work defies description.- John Creasey - Ten Authors in One
- John Creasey - the First of Many
- John Creasey - Simple Facts
- John Creasey and the Toff
- Charles Bukowski - Poet and Novelist
- Dashiell Hammett - Author
- Margaret Atwood - Writer
- The Handmaid's Tale
Attwoods book prize nominated epic. - George Orwell
- Charles Dickens - Author
- Stephen KingThe popular horror writer and scriptwriter.
- Catch 22
- The story of the story of OClassic Erotic Fiction
- Jack Kerouac
- Hunter S Thompson
- Ian Fleming - AuthorThe creator of James Bond
- HP Lovecraft
- Doris Lessing - Author
- The Life of the Marquis de Sade - Author
- Sven Hassel - WriterA little know Danish Anti war writer.
- Michel de Montaigne
- Oscar Wilde
Myths, Legends, etc
- The Medieval Development of Arthurian Literature
- Arthurian Literature from the Middle Ages to the Victorians A sequal to the above
- Anglo-Saxon Isle of Wight: Legends
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Aesop and his Fables
Historically important books..
- The Book of Kellsnot a book that you can borrow from the library but here for the sake of completness
- I ChingA book of wisdom based on the principal of change.
- Anne Frank and Her Diary
- The Bible - a Perspective You can't deny it's historically important.
- Homer
- William Shakespeare
Have a look at the related BBC link
The offical BBC books homepage.
You could also visit..
There is another H2G2 Book Group, they're reading No Logo at the moment, why no pop along and join in the fun.
What are you reading at the moment?
Did you really enjoy it, or did you break the spine by throwing it across the room? Post a review here and let us all know what you thought.
Are you feeling inspired?
If all this reading has left you feeling that you'd like to try feel free to post a the A numbers below, so I can add them to this list, then the rest of us can read and comment