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Ideas for Book Excerpts in DailyLit Selects

Hope you're enjoying DailyLit Selects, our hand-selected series of excerpts from books we think are worth reading.

We wanted to ask you for your ideas and requests: which books would you like to see featured in the DailyLit Selects series?

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MaggieH

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  • Born to Run by Christopher MCDougall; The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood; Breakfast With Budda by Roland Merullo; The Moral Animal by Robert Wright; Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby

    dreamdustOct 1, 2009 2:36 pm
    by dreamdust

  • Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. (And try to forget the terrible movie)

    Anything by Neil Gaiman or Douglas Coupland

    Also, how about James Elroy's new novel? I am waiting to hear the outcome of the contest before I go and buy my copy.

    cresswgaOct 1, 2009 2:52 pm
    by cresswga

  • The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, Netherland by Joseph O'Neill, How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins, The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

    dreamdustOct 2, 2009 7:06 am
    by dreamdust

  • Pat Conroy's new book - South of the Bend? Can't quite remember the title.

    laureltree1Oct 2, 2009 11:14 am
    by laureltree1

  • The Dracula Tape by Fred Saberhagen. Dracula's rebuttal to his story as told by Bram Stoker.

    Golem100Oct 2, 2009 1:15 pm
    by Golem100

  • Oooh I hadn't heard of that Golem. I am reading Dracula at the moment and I could see how that could work really well. I shall have to check it out. (Hopefully it is better than Wicked was for the Wizard of Oz)

    cresswgaOct 4, 2009 9:02 am
    by cresswga

  • Something by John Muir, since PBS is doing the national parks on T.V. I find myself wanting to read something by him. Plus some nonfiction would be welcome for variety.

    dreamdustOct 4, 2009 12:17 pm
    by dreamdust

  • Cresswga: Much better. There are sequels but I haven't read them.

    Golem100Oct 5, 2009 8:32 am
    by Golem100

  • @Cresswga There is an excerpt of Blood's a Rover available on the publisher's website here. We didn't include it in DailyLit Selects because of its strong language, which increases the possibility that our emails will be flagged as spam.

    MaggieHOct 8, 2009 12:44 pm
    by MaggieH (admin)

  • Thanks Maggie. I had not thought that possibility. I will bear it in mind for future recommendations.

    I am so used to reading the classics through Daily Lit that I rarely come across anything stronger than an exclamation of "My goodness!"

    cresswgaOct 9, 2009 10:48 am
    by cresswga

  • A new one that sounds like a good read-Goddess of the Market, the life of Ayn Rand.

    dreamdustOct 22, 2009 3:22 pm
    by dreamdust

  • Broken Horses by Jeanette Walls. The Glass Castle was an amazing read, and I would really enjoy learning more about the author's family. Broken Horses is a fictionalized memoir, but so were The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Please consider my request.

    hellohelloNov 6, 2009 8:09 am
    by hellohello

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