Book Worms Unite

Ok, I hope you all aren't sick of book lists, but I thought mine was important because NO ONE has mentioned my favorite author. But first let me just say that Julochka, Bee, Polly, and Gidget have already done theirs and that's where I got the inspiration. Many of my favorite books are already listed in the four posts mentioned above, so I'm not planning on boring you with those. Plus you should also know that BOTH my aunt and uncle were librarians, so I always had a good resource if I needed a book to read.

Lets get on with it.

Childhood Faves (and by this I mean high school and younger)

• Anything by Judy Blume


• Anything by Stephen King


• A Wrinkle in Time series -Madeline L'Engle


• Watership Down - Richard Adams


• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin


• Paddington Bear books - Michael Bond


• The Nine Days to Christmas - Mary Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida
  


• I remember reading a lot of Erma Bombeck, but I don't think I got the full effect until after I had kids.

Authors I can always count on

• Ann Patchett


• Jodi Picoult


• John Grisham


• Robin Cook


• Michael Crichton

Non-Fiction Favorites

• How Not to Look Old - Charla Krupp (remember that I'm the narcisister)


• What Not to Wear - Trinny Goodall and Susannnah Constantine


• The Year of Living Biblically - AJ Jacobs (very funny read...)


• Drug Facts and Comparisons - ok I haven't actually read all this book, but its the pharmacists bible

Miscellaneous Loves

• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath


• Chocolat - JoAnn Harris


• Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez


• Catch 22 - Joseph Heller


• My Antonia - Willa Cather


• The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood


• No Exit - Jean-Paul Sartre


• Le Petit Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery


• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Partially read books that I liked

• The Iliad


• The Odyssey


• Don Quixote de la Mancha - Cervantes

And NOW for my VERY Favorite Book Series EVER

It's the Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon. I think in the UK it's called Cross Stitch.

Ok, I admit it. It's usually found in the Romance section. This totally turned me off at first. Romance? Me? Ummm, no. But a friend suggested reading it so I grudgingly did. Oh. My. God. I couldn't put it down. When I started reading the series there were only 3 books, now there are 6 with a 7th one set to be published in the fall. I have recommended this book to many, many friends (there was actually 1 friend that didn't like it, everyone else did). I even got my sister into the series (and this is a woman with a PhD in mucosal immunology). There are blogs and communities and people really all into these books. It is really well written. Gabaldon does a fabulous job making the characters and places come alive. It's the type of book in which you can totally lose yourself. I can not even count the times I've read the first book. It's my go-to book when I'm sad. Or happy. Or pensive. Or procrastinating. Or depressed. Or elated...you get my drift. The 3rd book is another I'll open over and over. Anyway, just give them a shot. I promise you won't be disappointed.

Here they are:

• Outlander


• Dragonfly in Amber


• Voyager


• Drums of Autumn


• The Fiery Cross


• A Breath of Snow and Ashes


• An Echo in the Bone - due out this september (hooray!!)

Now. I have to go read. Seriously. Jamie is calling to me. You'll see...

PS- I hate Blogger formatting

PPS- I had a great photo, but now I can't find the stinking cord to get it to my laptop from my camera. I think this means I need a new nikon :)