I enjoy sharing good books, so many of my favorites have been lent to others. The titles below currently overfill my shelves and I’m delighted to recommend them. Feel free to drop in and look for your next bedtime read. My latest recommendations will be added to the bottom of the list.
Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel – by Jeanette Walls
The Glass Castle – by Jeanette Walls – autobiography
Crazy For The Storm – by Norman Ollestad – autobiography
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier – by Ishmael Beah
Still Alice – by Lisa Genova – Fiction
The Art Lover – by Carole Maso – Autobiography
Novice Mourner – by Joshua McKinney – Poetry
Swimming The Mirror: Poems for My Daughter – by Brad Buchanan
Joe’s Rain – by Quinton Duval – Poetry
The Specialist – by Chic Sale – Folk Humor
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country – by Louise Erdrich – Travel/Autobiography
Stop Time – by Frank Conroy – Autobiography
Three Cups of Tea – by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin – Non Fiction/Autobiography
A Thousand Splendid Suns – by Khaled Hosseini – Fiction
The Kite Runner - by Khaled Hosseini – Fiction
The Poisonwood Bible – by Barbara Kingsolver – Fiction
The Gravedigger – by Peter Grandbois - Fiction
Red Strangers – by Elspeth Huxley – Fiction
Half of a Yellow Sun – by Chimama Adichie – Fiction
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – by Lisa See – Fiction
A Thousand Acres – by Jane Smiley – Fiction
The Brain That Changes Itself – by Norman Doidge, M.D. – Non Fiction
The Synonym Finder – by J. I. Rodale - The ultimate Reference book for finding the right word
Rascal – by Sterling North – Autobiographic novel for young readers, but I still love to read it;
All Over But The Shoutin’ – by Rick Bragg – Autobiography
Lucky Unlucky Days – by Daniel Grandbois – amazing Poetry that must be read out loud
The Help – by Katheryn Stockett - Period Fiction (early 1960′s)
Up Island – by Anne Rivers Siddons – Fiction
Eleanor, Eleanor, Not Your Real Name – by Kathryn Cowles – Poetry
Still In Soil – by Kyle Torke – Poetry
Breaking The Fever – By Mary Mackey – Poetry
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – by Annie Dillard – Autobiography; prose/poetry. This is one of my must-read-every-couple-of-years books.
The Forgotten Garden – by Kate Morton – Fiction
Infidel – by Ayaan Hirsi Ali – Autobiography
Half the Sky – by Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl Wudunn – Non-fiction
From Baghdad with Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava – Biography by Jay Kopelman and Melinda Roth
Prodigal Summer: A Novel – Fiction by Barbara Kingsolver
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived – by Ralph Helfer – Biography
Saving Fish From Drowning – by Amy Tan – Fiction
Middlesex – by Jeffrey Eugenides – Fiction Pulitzer Prize Winner
Looking Like the Enemy – by Mary Matsuda Gruenwald – Memoir of Japanese-American Internment
Fall On Your Knees – by Anne Marie MacDonld – epic novel
Until Tuesday – by Luis Carlos Montalvan – Non-Fiction - American soldier and his service dog
Shiva Dancing – by Bharti Kirchner – Cross cultural Novel
Miracles – Non-Fiction Stories of Healing – by Bernie Siegel
End The Silence – WWII Memoir – by Dorothy Read and Ilse Smit
Listen – Fiction – by Molly Larsen Cook
Until Tuesday – Non Fiction by Luis Montalvan
By The Lake – Fiction – by John McGahern
The Love Isreal Family – Non Fiction – by Charles LeWarne
Cancer Is a Funny Thing – Memoir – by Marie de Haan
‘Tis – Memoir – by Frank McCourt
Bring Down The Chandeliers – Poetry – by Tara Hardy
I have the Pilgrim of Tinker Creek on the pile of ‘To be read” books. I’m glad to see its on someone’s favorite/recommended reading. I can’t wait for my short break to come so i can read more.
For me, Pilgrim at TC is something I read in small bits, because each bit is so rich with language, thought and the most remarkable observations of nature. It takes me several months of ‘dipping in’ to read it from cover to cover, and for some reason, I need a blanket, a couch and a good hot cup of tea as well. It’s a winter-reading book. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it immensely.