The Favorite Books List

[westernredcedar]

I intend to keep an on-going list of my favorite books here in my lj, in this very post. I will update this as needed over time. I LOVE book recs, as well as hearing from others who love these same books.


The all-time favorites, I try to read these every year at least once:

Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Geek Love by Katharine Dunn
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
The Sunne in Splendor by Sharon Kay Penman

Other favorites, read multiple times:

Beauty by Sheri Tepper
A Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackarey
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie

GENRES:

Historical Fiction Authors:

Sharon Kay Penman
Edith Pargeter
Margaret George

Mystery authors and series I read regularly:

The Mary Russell series by Laurie King
Elizabeth George
P.D. James
Minette Walters
Janet Evanovich

Sci-Fi/Fantasy:

All of the original Dune series by Frank Herbert
Anything by Sheri Tepper in particular: Beauty, Grass, The Gate to Women’s Country
Tolkien
Octavia Butler, especially Lilith's Brood

Young Adult Faves:

Holes by Louis Sachar
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, by E.L. Konigsburg
The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye
Make Lemonade by Virginia Ewer Wolff

In it’s own category:

Harry Potter. Hee.

Comments

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

I am going to put this in memories. I've had a project to read recced books from the library, and I am going to look through this for that.

[westernredcedar.livejournal.com]

Cool! I plan to update and maybe add a bit of a rec about each of these over time. If you ever want to know about a specific book- feel free to ask!

[westernredcedar.livejournal.com]

Hah! Well, this is a comprehensive life-long list, but yeah, I read all the time...plus I'm a very fast reader, which helps the situation (or possibly makes it worse? depending on your POV)
Wait, come back! There's no need to whisper about non-fiction! I noticed a sad lack of it on my list actually, which is a bit embarrasing. I do read it some and enjoy...yay for HP being the exception to the rule. *g*