Reading List

So many books, so little time. Here are some of my personal favorites . . . though the list grows ever longer in this world of, thankfully, millions of books! (The links will take you to the titles on Amazon.)

Favorite book: The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams.

Honorable mentions:

We Think the World of You by J. R. Ackerley

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham

Three Junes by Julia Glass

Sanctuary by Paul Monette

The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Some favorite young adult books include:

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

Talk by Kathe Koja

Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

And middle grade novels:

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo

Emily’s Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary

The Trouble with Tuck by Theodore Taylor

Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech

Swan Lake by Mark Helprin

Dog Friday by Hilary McKay

The Hundred and One Dalmatiansby Dodie Smith

The Fox at Drummers’ Darkness by Joyce Stranger