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
- All the President’s Men
- Bird by Bird
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- The Partly Cloudy Patriot
- The Year of Magical Thinking
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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