BOOKS THAT ROCKED MY WORLD AS A KID
1. Bread and Jam for Frances/A Baby Sister for Frances, Russell Hoban
2. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown
3. Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White
4. All of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books
5. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
6. Black Beauty
7. Watership Down,
8. The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne (I was weird…)
9. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
10. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
11. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew/Happy Hollisters mysteries
12. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
13. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
BOOKS THAT ROCKED MY WORLD AS A TEENAGER
1. Without Feathers, Woody Allen
2. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
3. A Separate Peace, John Fowles
4. Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
5. Franny & Zoey, J.D. Salinger
6. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
7. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
8. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
9. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
10. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
11. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
12. Animal Farm, George Orwell
13. Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
14. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Paul Zindel.
(Okay, technically it’s a play, but it still rocked my world, and
I read it about thirty times.)
15. The Stranger, Albert Camus
16. No Exit, Sartre
17. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume. (I don’t
think you’re allowed to have your first period without reading this
book. In fact, it may now be packaged with the 6th grade “health
kit” that you get when you’re shuffled off to the cafeteria
without the boys, for all I know. Loved it.)
LITERARY WORKS THAT I LOVE
TO DISTRACTION
1. Pastoralia, George Saunders
2. Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
3. The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
4. The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving
5. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
8. A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
9. Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare
10. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
11. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
12. Boys of My Youth, Jo Ann Beard
13. Rats Saw God, Rob Thomas