Books
I've read a lot of books and enjoyed uncountable ones. These are a few that have been significant to me, for one reason and another. All of them hit a chord that resounded within me. That appeal is more personal in some and pretty universal in others. I'm listing them in alphabetical order out of sheer inability to choose between them.
- Babbitt, Natalie
- Tuck Everlasting
- Dunnett, Dorothy
- Game of Kings, Queen's Play, Disorderly Knights, Pawn in Frankincense, Ringed Castle, Checkmate
- Fairbairn, Anne
- Five Smooth Stones
- Gallico, Paul
- The Man who was Magic, Thomasina
- Garner, Alan
- The Owl Service
- Gilman, Dorthy
- The Tightrope Walker
- Guest, Judith
- Ordinary People
- Hinton, S.E.
- The Outsiders
- Kay, Guy Gavriel
- Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, The Darkest Road
- Harper, Lee
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- McGraw, Eloise Jarvis
- Greensleeves
- McKillup, Patricia
- The Riddlemaster of Hed, The Heir of Sea of Fire, The Harpist in the Wind
- Peters, Ellis
- Death Mask
- Rand, Ayn
- Atlas Shrugged (OK, so I was once young and impressionable. Scary to think people take her philosophy seriously.)
- Salinger, J.D.
- A Catcher in the Rye
- Sayers, Dorothy L.
- Nine Tailors, Strong Poison, Gaudy Night, Busman's Honeymoon
- Stewart, Mary
- My Brother Michael, The Gabriel Hounds, The Moon-spinners
- Smith, Dottie
- I Capture the Castle
- Sutcliff, Rosemary
- The Mark of the Horse Lord
- Tey, Josephine
- Brat Farrar, The Daughter of Time
- Tolkien, J.R.R.
- The Lord of the Rings
- Tuchman, Barbara
- A Distant Mirror
- Uttley, Allison
- A Traveller in Time
- Willis, Connie
- Bellwether, Lincoln Dreams
- Woolf, Virginia
- A Room of Her Own
More Good Books
And here are some other authors that I've enjoyed very much, in no particular order.
- Winston, Richard
- Thomas Becket
- Kurtz, Katherine
- Deryni Rising
- McKinley, Robin
- The Blue Sword, The Hero and the Crown
- LeGuin, Ursula
- A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore
- Lewis, C.S.
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Hambly, Barbara
- Dragonsbane
- Heyer, Georgette
- The Foundling, The Masqueraders, Death in the Stocks, A Blunt Instrument, Behold Here's Poison
- Norton, Andre
- Star Gate, Star Rangers, Year of the Unicorn
- Porter, Gene Stratton
- Freckles
- Francis, Dick
- Nerve, Rat Race
- Austen, Jane
- Pride and Prejudice
- Wentworth, Patricia
- In the Balance (Danger Point)
- Grubb, Davis
- The Night of the Hunter
- Moore, Brian
- The Catholics
- Riter, Dorris
- The Edge of Violence
- ????
- Omar
- Coles, Manning
- Drink to Yesterday, Toast to Tomorrow
- Beagle, Peter S.
- The Last Unicorn
- Tarr, Judith
- The Hall of the Mountain King
- Zelazny, Roger
- Nine Princes in Amber
- Yolen, Jane
- Sister Light, Sister Dark
- Peyton, K.M.
- Prove Yourself a Hero
- Lay and Bartlett
- Twelve O'Clock High
- Lindop, Audrey Erskine
- I Start Counting