Food4Thought Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 ... Historical Fiction: Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear's People of the... Silence, Owl, Raven, etc. (Native American) I don't think I've met anyone else who has read and loved this series as I did. I devoured these as a kid! I grew up on a reservation, so these books and the Indian in the Cupboard series were my lifeblood. I'll have to check out your other recommendations. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matermagistra Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 (edited) This is almost impossible to answer-but I do love a good book thread, so I will chime in: Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs, by Tomie de Paola LOTR - the chapter in ROTK which describes the developing relationship between Eowyn and Faramir is one of the most romantic stories I've ever read. Redeeming Love and the Mark of the Lion series both took my breath away. Absolutely excellent. The Once and Future King Illusion by Paula Volsky - this is fantasy which is not usually my genre, but the story in this book is loosely patterned after the French Revolution. I love history so that is probably why it appeals to me so much. I love Dref!! Jane Eyre- I think this book should be required reading for every young person!! North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Emma by Jane Austen Non-Fiction: Founding Mothers, by Cokie Roberts. This is such a fascinating and inspiring book! The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom. This book was life-changing for me. Anything and everything by David McCollough. Favorite SL books: Johnny Tremain, Witch of Blackbird Pond, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch and Mara, Daughter of the Nile. Edited August 14, 2011 by matermagistra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matermagistra Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 This is almost impossible to answer-but I do love a good book thread, so I will chime in: Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs, by Tomie de Paola LOTR - the chapter in ROTK which describes the developing relationship between Eowyn and Faramir is one of the most romantic stories I've ever read. Redeeming Love and the Mark of the Lion series both took my breath away. Absolutely excellent. The Once and Future King Illusion by Paula Volsky - this is fantasy which is not usually my genre, but the story in this book is loosely patterned after the French Revolution. I love history so that is probably why it appeals to me so much. I love Dref!! Jane Eyre- I think this book should be recommended reading for every young person!! North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Emma by Jane Austen Non-Fiction: Founding Mothers, by Cokie Roberts. This is such a fascinating and inspiring book! The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom. This book was life-changing for me. Anything and everything by David McCollough. Favorite SL books: Johnny Tremain, Witch of Blackbird Pond, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch and Mara, Daughter of the Nile. How could I forget Little Britches? I was deeply affected by this book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra in FL Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 (edited) Fiction: Pride and Prejudice - because I'm a die-hard romantic Trumpet of the Swan - because I have 3 "different" dc - one without fingers on her right hand, one Aspie and one allergic to life. HP series - just so much fun for the whole family Non-fiction: Bible - self-explanatory Edited August 14, 2011 by Sandra in FL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaWood Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 The Bible The Hiding Place Ralph Moody books Charlotte's Web, Trumpet of the Swan God's Smuggler (Brother Andrew) The Heavenly Man Many more. . . Linda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meriwether Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I love lots of fiction, but my favorite rereads are: Pride and Prejudice Mary Stewart's Moonspinners (or any Mary Stewart) Mary Higgins Clark's early books A Tale of Two Cities Non-fiction: It would be easy to say the Bible but beyond that I don't have a lot of favorites. I like history and biographies in general. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in Neverland Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Fiction: Beloved by Toni Morrison Non-fiction: Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.MacGyver Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I don't think I've met anyone else who has read and loved this series as I did. I devoured these as a kid! I grew up on a reservation, so these books and the Indian in the Cupboard series were my lifeblood. I'll have to check out your other recommendations. :) Yeah, you are the only other person I've met who has even read these... well, my mom reads all kinds of stuff like this, and when I go home, she lets me raid her bookshelves. You might like Michener's stuff and Jean M. Auel - some find all of the detail dry, but I like a good, detailed, well-researched historical fiction any day! Happy reading!!:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginevra Posted August 14, 2011 Author Share Posted August 14, 2011 The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein This was one of my favorite childhood books. Such a sweet story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eewaggie99 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 I'll chime in on A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I always wanted to start with the "A's" in the library and move down the alphabet. Such a fantastic novel. Plus, many of those already mentioned: Farmer Boy, LOTR, Harry Potter, and the Outlander series. Diana Gabaladon is very much a modern day Dickens in her description of Jacobite and colonial life. Be forewarned, she's usually found in the Romance section although her novels are more fiction than the R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 First 2 that pop into my head are The Secret Garden and The Outsiders. I have read both dozens and dozens of times and STILL cry when I read the Outsiders. Every. Single. Time. I have different authors I like. I get into reading a particular genre for a while so no set book, author etc. Sometimes I get hooked on a series. But those top two I always always have in my collection and reread them often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 I want to read The Little White Horse but have had no luck finding it the last few times I looked. Did you read it recently and if so, how did you get a copy? I bought one copy new from a bookseller long ago. I have a copy I found on e-bay a couple of years ago, and a copy I found (for $5!!!) at an "antique" store. Mostly what I see on e-bay are paperback copies that have those stupid descriptions making it sound like a teen romance story or something. :glare: I haven't looked in awhile, though. I'm trying to read The Lord of the Rings, but at the moment I want a little bit to gouge my eyes out. Am I ever going to get to the story? :tongue_smilie: Did you read The Hobbit first? You need to do that. Otherwise, the story starts right out at the beginning. ;-) But it's a looooong story. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 I read a *lot*. I am going to paste a couple of lists I have made here: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky-I think Dostoyevsky is one of the greatest writers of all time. There are a LOT of characters and he gets sort of soap-opera-esque, but one forgives that. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier-A girl's coming of age story. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood-A take on The Odyssey from Penelope's point of view. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James-A ghost story...of sorts. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley-When people ask what modern book has impacted you the most, I choose this one. Persuasion by Jane Austen-It's romantic from a woman's point of view in the same way Pride and Prejudice is romantic from a girl's point of view. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte-Because if you read Austen, you need to read a Bronte sister as a sort of antidote for what Austen tells us about the social classes. The Age of Innocence or The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton-I think these are almost as relevant now as they were then, despite the prevalence of divorce. The Princess Bride by William Goldman-I love modern day fairy tales. Stardust by Neil Gaiman-ditto, with a twist. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett-This is one of the most hilarious books that I have ever read. Rarely do you get a funny take on the apocalypse. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift-nobody does satire like Swift. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald-I appreciate it when everything is sort of tied up in a bow at the end. Ultimately, I guess it's a book about what it means to be a friend. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut-If you're not sure what humanism is, read this book. Walden by Henry Thoreau The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown The Federalist Papers The Anti-Federalist Papers Common Sense by Thomas Paine The Crucible by Arthur Miller My Antonia by Willa Cather Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin A Vindication of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Red Badge of Courage by William Faulkner Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway The Virginian by Owen Wister Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Billy Budd by Herman Melville The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homemama2 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 The Bible Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion (Emma too) Little House on the Prairie Series Harry Potter Series Dark is Rising Series (yes, these books are MY favorites for ME even though they're kid books) ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 All Creatures Great and Small Pride and Prejudice Rebecca Harry Potter Atlas Shrugged Pillars of the Earth Candide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
readinmom Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 #1 of all time is To Kill a Mockingbird. I have learned something new everytime I read/teach this book. There are so many areas to concentrate on while reading this...love it, love it, love it! I cry everytime after the verdict when Reverend Sykes tells Scout to stand out of respect for her father "Miss Jean Louise stand up...your father's passin'" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerrie in VA Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn There's a Racoon in my Parka The Way the Crow Flies The Burning Shore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakia Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 I am going to have a hard time narrowing it down!! I love books!! Fiction: My favorite series ever is the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. I read them every fall. Persuasion Harry Potter series, especially Deathly Hallows The Help Anne of Green Gables Redeeming Love The Shack Memoirs of a Geisha And just for sheer fun and fluff, the Sookie Stackhouse books Nonfiction: I rarely make it through a nonfiction selection, so I guess I can't pick one. I am just not a fan of nonfiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suppleasthewind Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Nonfiction: The Problem from Hell by Samantha Power really had a big impact on me and how I view history. It was also very depressing. Fiction: The World According to Garp, The Age of Innocence, even though I love the House of Mirth I can only read half because I can't bear to see Lily Bart go down, all Judy Blume, The Giving Tree (even though I can't read it without crying), Little House books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merry Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 The Divine Comedy The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Emma Gaudy Night and other books by Sayers any Jeeves books by Wodehouse The Great Gatsby The Bronze Bow Orthodoxy by Chesterton Being Human by Ranald MaCaulay Yes, Prime Minister Chronicles of Narnia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negin Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Love this thread. :) Favorite Fiction Pride & Prejudice - my absolute all-time favorite Jane Eyre To Kill a Mockingbird Harry Potter books A Thousand Splendid Suns - this one, by far, is amongst one of the best books I have ever read The Help The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende and anything else by her, but this is her best. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Allende The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy .. but the first book is quite boring and confusing in the first 60-70 pages. Hang in there. It does get better! Yes, they are graphic. But I tend to look beyond that and just focus on the story Favorite Non-Fiction The Geography of Bliss – non-fiction, very insightful, and humorous I'm not really good with non-fiction. My mind tends to wander. For holy scripture, I love The Hidden Words, since we're Baha'is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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