Abby's Reads

To say that I like to read is an understatement. Some people (Colt) fish. Some people (Colt) golf. Some people (Colt) play softball. I read (and it's a good thing too, since Colt's hobbies are expensive and reading is free).

Because I read so much, people often ask me for "good book" suggestions. It is at that point that my brain always (well, almost always) fails me and I find myself with nothing to say. I wind up promising them an e-mail or facebook message of suggestions. Sometimes (most times, actually) I forget to send that e-mail or facebook message. It's not intentional. It's just me. I'm a terrible e-mailer and facebook messenger.

This is my solution. This is a list of my favorite books- some of them, at least.

I'm always looking for good books. Leave me a comment on this page if you have any suggestions for me, or if you just want to add to my list in general.

Favorite Fiction (listed in no particular order)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
Wicked (Gregory Maguire)
Son of a Witch (Gregory Maguire)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Emma (Jane Austen)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The Agony and The Ecstasy (Irving Stone)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
Quo Vadis (Henryk Sienkiewicz)
My Name is Asher Lev (Chaim Potok)
The Gift of Asher Lev (Chaim Potok)
The Other Boleyn Girl (Philippa Gregory)
Lust for Life (Irving Stone)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
The Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
The Hiding Place (Corrie ten Boom)
Northerner Abbey (Jane Austen)
The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
The Chosen (Chaim Potok)
The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
The Book Thief (Markuz Zusak)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
Jane Eyre (Chalotte Bronte)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese)
The Law of Moses (Amy Harmon)
A Different Blue (Amy Harmon)
Making Faces (Amy Harmon)
Running Barefoot (Amy Harmon)
The Song of David (Amy Harmon)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
Go Set a Watchman (Harper Lee)
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt)

Favorite Series
His Dark Materials (a trilogy by Philip Pullman)
Harry Potter (7 book series by JK Rowling)
The Chronicles of Narnia (7 book series by C.S. Lewis)
Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
Sookie Stackhouse (Charlaine Harris- some people like Twilight. I like Sookie.)
The Neapolitan Novels (Elena Ferrante)
The Wicked Years (5 book series by Gregory Maguire) 

Favorite Non-Fiction 
A Soprano on Her Head (Eloise Ristad)
Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Committed (Elizabeth Gilbert)
The Tao of Inner Peace (Eloise Ristad)
Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness (Erich Schiffmann)
Emotional Intelligence (Daniel Coleman)
Grammar Girl (Mignon Fogarty)
Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
Marie Antoinette (Antonia Fraser)
A Severe Mercy (Sheldon Vanauken)
Anything by C.S. Lewis

Recently Enjoyed Books (but not necessarily counted among my favorites)- 
Sacred Hearts (Sarah Dunant) 
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)
Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
Tatiana and Alexander (Paullina Simons)
The Paris Wife (Paula McLain)
The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
Mothers and Other Liars (Amy Bourret)
Girl in Translation (Jean Kwok)  
Those Who Save Us (Jenna Blum)



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