Books I Love (Links)

rom my shelf of forever-loved books…I don’t keep every book I read because some of them don’t deserve it, but I make sure to keep the ones I love….they continue, sitting on my bookshelves, through osmosis, to fill my heart and mind with their brilliance, that’s why I keep them nearby. I need all the help I can get.

ooks I’ve read, old and new; loved, and am happy to recommend (in no particular order). As I read new, really good ones, I’ll add them to this list.  I’ve also joined Goodreads, which is a wonderful place to read reviews, and to get and make recommendations.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary Ruud van der Rol (Intro by Anna Quindlen) West with the Night Beryl Markham Heartburn Nora Ephron Hawaii James Michener Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen The World According to Garp John Irving The Piano Jane Campion Everything Barbara Pym has written, start with Excellent Women Anything by Gladys Taber but most especially Best of Stillmeadow A Good Man in Africa William Boyd A Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein Einstein’s Dreams Alan Lightman Autobiography of Mark Twain Charles Neider The Passion of Ayn Rand Barbara Brandon Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim Elizabeth and Her German Garden Elizabeth von Arnim

The Help Kathryn Stockett Charms for the Easy Life Kaye Gibbons To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee A Short Guide To A Happy Life Anna Quindlen Schindler’s List Thomas Keneally Abigail Adams Charles W. Akers Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Bridget Jones Diary Helen Fielding Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Source James Michener Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand (pronounce her name ein) The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck East of Eden John Steinbeck A Woman of Independent Means Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Love in the time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham Little Women Louisa May Alcott The Outlander book series by Diana Gabaldon Portrait of a Marriage Nigel Nicholson The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot The Great Santini by Pat Conroy The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy Postcards from the Edge Carrie Fisher Marjorie Morningstar Herman Wouk My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin Stieg Larsson series starting with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Pillars of the Earth Ken Follet Pollyanna (of course) Eleanor H. Porter A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle A Fire in the Mind Joseph Campbell Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys Georgia Morris The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Old books are fun to collect…

Some old children’s books have wonderful drawings…

FAMOUS OLD BESTSELLING CHILDREN’S BOOKSAndrew Lang’s Fairy Books, starting in 1889 The Poky Little Puppy 1942 The Tale of Peter Rabbit 1902 The Country Child 1931 Tootle 1945 The Saggy Baggy Elephant 1947 Scuffy the Tugboat 1955 Pat the Bunny 1940 All-of-a-Kind Family 1951 Green Eggs and Ham 1957 The Cat in the Hat 1960 The Littlest Angel 1946 One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish 1960 The Very Busy Spider 1985 Good Night Moon 1991

love old garden books, but if I could only have one, by far, this is the one! It’s called the “Western Garden Book” but the west includes Colorado and Lake Tahoe, snowy areas and deserts, coastal and inland…so limiting this book to the West is so unfair to everyone else in the USA! I have this book at my house in New England and in California; it has the best photos and descriptions; it’s a huge plant encyclopedia; everything is alphabetical; I give it 5 stars! Get it on Amazon… you will love it!

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