Five Favorite Books

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There’s a five-favorite books meme making the rounds on the interwebs. I couldn’t limit myself to five, but here’s mine:

Non-romance fiction

Romance

Non-fiction

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Emma Barry is a teacher, novelist, recovering academic, and former political staffer. She lives with her high school sweetheart and a menagerie of pets and children in Virginia, and she occasionally finds time to read and write.

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  1. Okay, so I can’t resist adding more.

    Children’s/YA: the Anne and Emily books by LM Montgomery, The Phantom Tollbooth, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, My Side of the Mountain, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, The Three Musketeers, The Hobbit

    Poems: “The World as Meditation” Stevens, “The Eve of St. Agnes” Keats, “Easter 1916” Yeats, “Night Driving” Heaney, “Diving into the Wreck” Rich, “Sonnet 130” Shakespeare, “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild” Bradstreet, “My life has stood a loaded gun” Dickinson

    Non-romance fiction honorable mentions: Housekeeping, The Hidden Hand, The Blind Assassin, A Room with a View, The House of Mirth, The God of Small Things

    Romance honorable mentions: A Lady Awakened, Lord Perfect, A Duke of Her Own, Lucky in Love

    Non-fiction honorable mentions: A Moveable Feast, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, The Woman at the Washington Zoo

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