Well, well, well, You all Everybody. Lost as a television series has come to a close. And many of you super fans have asked yourself, “Now what?” One of the many bonuses of being a Lost fan has been the discovery of Easter Eggs, and none of the Easter Eggs is more prominent than the book.
There have been many books that have been featured in Lost, and there have been even more that have been cited as inspiration to Lost’s creation. Thus begat the Lost Book Club (to be referred to here on out as WRLB (We Read Lost Books)).
Follow along with @LOST_Bookclub
We will read one book a month to be lead by a volunteer. Sign up in the comments below. Name the book you’d like to volunteer to lead and what month you’d like to do so with your comment.
At the start of the month I will post a blog here at LOSTblog naming the book and the leader for the book, and a basic reading calendar for people to follow along with (so that we don’t get behind). Then I’ll post weekly reminders. Two week before the end of the month I’ll post a relevant episode list, so that we can rewatch those episodes. THEN at the end of the month (two days prior to the end: June 28th this coming month) we’ll gather together for a podcast orchestrated by your truly, but hosted by our fearless leader of the month. We’ll discuss the book, it’s impact on the series, and our thoughts on the episodes in which it was featured. THEEEEEN before the month closes I’ll post a bloggy written rehash of the aforementioned podcast. Then we start it all over again.
If you went cross-eyed reading that last paragraph, fear not. The first of the month post will include the dates of the events of the month.
There are many list out there of books featured on Lost. We’ve decided to use the list featured on James Brush’s website (@jdbrush).
I’ve crossed of the first choice, for the month of June. The book will be Watership Down by Richard Adams, and our fearless leader will be Ryan Connor, who isn’t on Twitter (yet). Stay tuned June 1st for the official Start-Your-Engines WRLB post.
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Watership Down – Richard AdamsA Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. – Judy Blume
Bad Twin – Gary Troup
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Epic of Gilgamesh – Herbert Mason (tr.)
Island – Aldous Huxley
Lancelot – Percy Walker
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” – Ambrose Bierce
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The Wizard of Oz – L Frank Baum
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
Carrie – Stephen King
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Evil Under the Sun – Agatha Christie
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
Laughter in the Dark – Vladimir Nabokov
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
On Writing – Stephen King
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
VALIS – Philip K Dick
The Invention of Morel – Adolfo Bioy Casares
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
The Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
Survivors of the Chancellor – Jules Verne
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Ulysses – James Joyce
A Separate Reality – Carlos Castaneda
Everything that Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
Fear and Trembling – Søren Kierkegaard
Haroun and the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie
Deep River – Shusaku Endo
The Chosen – Chaim Potok
Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
