Member: avatiakh

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Jenny Williams'illustration from the first edition of Margaret Mahy's A Lion in a Meadow

About my libraryI collect modern classics, fairytale anthologies, children & YA literature, Middle Eastern history, politics & religion, a little science fiction, fantasy, and some design and art books.

Groups1001 Books to read before you die, 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up, 2013 Category Challenge, 2014 Category Challenge, 2015 Category Challenge, 2016 Category Challenge, 2017 Category Challenge, 2018 Category Challenge, 2019 Category Challenge, 2020 Category Challenge —show all groups, 2021 Category Challenge, 2022 Category Challenge, 75 Books Challenge for 2012, 75 Books Challenge for 2013, 75 Books Challenge for 2014, 75 Books Challenge for 2015, 75 Books Challenge for 2016, 75 Books Challenge for 2017, 75 Books Challenge for 2018, 75 Books Challenge for 2019, 75 Books Challenge for 2020, 75 Books Challenge for 2021, 75 Books Challenge for 2022, All Writers Considered, Author Theme Reads, Book Nudgers, Booker Prize, Bug Collectors, Charity/Thrift Shop & Library Purchases, Children's Fiction, Children's Literature, Club Read 2011, Club Read 2012, Club Read 2013, Club Read 2014, Club Read 2018, Club Read 2021, Comics, Diana Wynne Jones Fans, Everything Illustration and Comic Art!, Fairy Tales Retold, Folio Society Devotees, Fourth Place, Genealogy@LT, Golden Age Illustrators, Group Reads - Literature, Holocaust Literature, Infinite Jesters, Jewish Bibliophiles, Jewish Fiction, Middle Eastern Literature, New Zealand Thingamabrarians, Non-Fiction Challenge / Journal, Orange January/July, Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge, Read YA Lit, ReadaThing, Reading Globally, Reading Globally II, ROOT - 2013 Read Our Own Tomes, Sandman, Short Stories, Spanish Civil War, The 12 in 12 Category Challenge, THE ANYTHING CULINARY BOOK GROUP, The City and the Book, The Prizes, Time Travel, Alternate Histories and Parallel Worlds, Travel and Exploration literature

Favorite authorsJane Austen, Paul Auster, Fleur Beale, Bernard Beckett, Isobelle Carmody, Ken Catran, Michael Chabon, Joy Cowley, Dorothy Dunnett, Vince Ford, Jostein Gaarder, Neil Gaiman, Maurice Gee, Peter F. Hamilton, Diana Wynne Jones, D. H. Lawrence, Margaret Mahy, Melina Marchetta, Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira, Glenda Millard, Michael Morpurgo, Robert Muchamore, Donna Jo Napoli, Amos Oz, Mal Peet, Chaim Potok, Anthony Powell, Ian Rankin, Philip Reeve, Alastair Reynolds, Marcus Sedgwick, Darren Shan, Jonathan Stroud, Nigel G. Tranter, Scott Westerfeld (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresBookmark Secondhand Books, Browsers Quality Secondhand Bookshop, Cook The Books, Dominion Books, El Ateneo - Grand Splendid, Evergreen Books, Hard To Find Books (Auckland), Jason Books, Mad Hatter Books, Pegasus Books, Readaway Books, Shakespeare and Company (Paris), The Dorothy Butler Children's Bookshop, The Open Book, Unity Books, Wardini Books

Favorite librariesAuckland Central City Library Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero, Botany Library

Other favoritesAuckland Writers and Readers Festival, Storylines Festival of New Zealand Children's Writers and Illustrators

Favorite lists1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up, Adult Books for YA Readers, Best Books Set in Boarding Schools, Best Israeli Reading, Best Science Books for Non-Scientists, Bibliography for Among Others, Bibliography for How to be a Heroine, Elevenses, The Emergence of the Modern Middle East, Here There Be Dragons, A High School Trip to Israel, Jewish Books, Lives of the Poets (and Philosophers), Middle East and Maghreb Graphic Novels, Middle East Fiction, Nonhuman Protagonists, Summer Reads 2014, Top 100 NZ Children's Books, Top Five Books of 2016, Women in Islam

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LocationNew Zealand

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Member sinceSep 8, 2007

Currently readingThe New Zealand wars trilogy by Maurice Shadbolt
Genesis 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War by Dan Kurzman
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple
The gendarme by Mark Mustian
Darkness visible : a memoir of madness by William Styron
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
Henry, King of France by Heinrich Mann
Amrita Sher-Gil: Rebel with a Paintbrush by Anita Vachharajani
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