I am reading a book by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Her book, A Woman of Substance is one of my all time favorites, and one I am planning to read again. My list includes:
A Woman of Substance - Barbara Taylor Bradford
Kane and Abel - Jeffery Archer
Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Piccoult
Two of my favourites have been mentioned. Anne of Green Gables and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. My Uncle gifted me both when I was a girl. I still have them and will reread them every couple of years.
Anything by Jane Austen, John Grisham, Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, John D. MacDonald, Dick Francis, Walter Mosley, Helen MacInness and too many others to mention. I am a romantic Nancy Drew girl who has always loved mysteries of any kind. I also enjoy when authors describe a part of the world that is not very familiar to me.
Favorite childhood or young adult books include
To Kill a Mockingbird
Anne of Green Gables and the sequels
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Little Princess
Tom Sawyer
Black Beauty
All books by Mildred Taylor
Everything by Louisa May Alcott
I need to add all books by Bill Bryson and James Herriot!
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I have quite a few that I've read more than once, but my all-time favorite is the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. I've read the whole series countless times and I still find something new on each read, and there are still times I'm on the edge of my seat or in tears even though I know exactly what's going to happen. I get lost in their world, and every time I read them I feel like I'm visiting old friends. It's the best story of a marriage I've ever read. I've read it, listened to it on audible, and watched the show.
I also love the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I haven't read it as often, but I get lost in the world he has created. However, I tried it on audible once and hated it!
Pride and Prejudice
The Harry Potter books
The Martian
The Gift of Asher Lev
The Chosen
Johnny Tremain
Charlotte's Web
The Tale of Despereaux
The Boys in the Boat
All Creatures Great and Small (the whole series)
I read one of the Outlander series and it wasnt the first, i don't think, i did really like it. I quoted from another poster's response below.
"I have quite a few that I've read more than once, but my all-time favorite is the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. I've read the whole series countless times and I still find something new on each read, and there are still times I'm on the edge of my seat or in tears even though I know exactly what's going to happen. I get lost in their world, and every time I read them I feel like I'm visiting old friends. It's the best story of a marriage I've ever read. I've read it, listened to it on audible, and watched the show."
The BEST STORY OF MARRIAGE, I think we all want a marriage like this and when ours falls short novels like these somehow soothe.
My all time favorite, and i am very literal, so this means pick ONE, would be Where the Lillies Bloom. I love the novel, written for youth, because the children in the novel make a living wild crafting without parents. I am interested in medicinal plants as well as life in the Ozarks.
I made this list for a book club a few years ago...
Fiction
1. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
5. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
6. The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende
7. In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
8. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
9. The Handmaidʼs Tale by Margaret Atwood
10.Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
11.The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Nonfiction
1. Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
2. Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
3. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
4. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
5. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burrows
6. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
7. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
8. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
9. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
10. What is the What by Dave Eggers
Childrenʼs Lit
1. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
2. Charlotteʼs Web by E.B. White
3. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
4. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
5. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
6. Are You There God, Itʼs Me Margaret by Judy Blume
7. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
8. Lyle Lyle Crocodile by Bernard Waber
9. The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhof
10. Stuart Little by E.B. White
11. The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
I have a list for adults and kids.
Adults:
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- The Song of Albion trilogy by Stephen Lawhead
- Zenna Henderson’s “The People” stories
- All of the James Herriot books
- The Hobbit
- Charlotte McCleod’s Peter Shandy series
For Kids
- The Velveteen Rabbit
- The Narnia Series
- Ella Enchanted
- Akimbo and the Lions
- The Gilbert books by Diane DeGroat
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Broken Harbor by Tana French
City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin
Basically, books that I've read several times but still take my breath away when I reread them! I favor intense reads
For less intense/ more relaxing reads:
Anything (these are mostly series) by Maud Hart Lovelace, L.M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Ellen Emerson White, Carol Snow
The Lord of the Rings (series) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling
The first 5 books of Dune by Frank Herbert
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Tales of the City (the original one 1978) by Armistead Maupin
1984 by George Orwell
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Hotel Paradise by Martha Grimes
The Hiding Place by John Sherrill (a biography of Corrie ten Boom)
LOVE Fulgum's books!
Used to have a poster with "Everything I Learned in Kindergarten."
That would be a nice gift for a Kinder teacher.
Have you read, It Was Fire When I Lay Down on It?
I read Olivia and Jai by Rebecca Ryman a few months ago--a great, historical epic novel!
If you haven't already read Shadow of the Moon by M.M. Kaye, then I definitely recommend it. Same historical setting and (imo) even more of a gripping read.
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