Let's Try This Again

Alex's List
(books she hasn't read)
1 stranger in a strange land (Robert Heinlen)
2 the grapes of wrath (John Steinbeck)
3 we the living (Ayn Rand)
4 a house for mr. biswas (V. S. Naipaul)
5 battlefield earth (L. Ron Hubbard)
6 the way of all flesh (Samuel Butler)
7 moonheart (Charles de Lint)
8 dream on monkey mountain (Derek Walcott)
9 lady chatterley's lover (D. H. Lawrence)
10 the sound and the fury (William Faulkner)

(books she has)
wildseed (Octavia Butler)
dune (Frank Herbert)
shantaram (Gregory Roberts)
the worthing saga (Orson Scott Card)
the second sex (Simone de Beauvoir)
genome (Matt Ridley)
freakonomics (Levitt and Dubner)
guns germs and steel (Jared Diamond)
east of eden (john steinbeck)

Anna's List
1 Dune (Frank Herbert)
2 Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
3 Lullaby or Choke (Chuck Palahniuk)
4 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
5 Mao II (Don DeLillo)
6 Couples (John Updike)
7 Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (Daniel J. Flynn)
8 the Rabbit series (John Updike)
9 White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
10 Animal Farm (George Orwell)

Rubi's List
1 God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
2 Reservation Blues (Sherman Alexie)
3 Tracks, (Louise Erdrich), and any other of her books
4 The Places in Between (Rory Stewart)
5 Madam Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
6 The World is Flat (Thomas L. Friedman)
7 One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
8 Lolita, by Nabokov9 Native Speaker (Chang Rae-Lee)
10 In the Shadow of Man (Jane Goodall)

Vanessa's List
1 The Satanic Verses (Rushdie, Salman )
2 Ragtime (Doctorow, E. L)
3 One Hundred Years of Solitude (Márquez, Gabriel García)
4 Catch-22 (Heller, Joseph)
5 A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole, Kennedy)
6 The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon, Thomas)
7 Still Life with Woodpecker (Robbins, Tom)
8 Sun Also Rises (Hemingway, Ernest)
9 Sophie's World (Gaarder, Jostein)
10 Watership Down (Adams, Richard)
11 Atlas Shrugged (Rand, Ayn)
12 The Life of Pi (Martel, Yan)
13 War and Peace (Tolstoy, Leo)
14 Stranger In A Strange Land (Heinlein, Robert)
15 The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas, Alexandre)
16 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce, James)
17 The Good Earth (Buck, Pearl S.)
18 Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut, Kurt)
19 The Idiot (Dostoevsky, Fyodor)