I'll be back next week with a list of middle/high school fantasy books. But in the meantime, I have a question for you: What is your favorite book?
My kids ask me this all the time. This is a very hard question to answer, but I usually say A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, because it is one I consistently re-read, about once a year.
What's yours?
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My favorite book has varied over the years. When I was younger, it was "the murder of Roger ackroyd". Then "pride and prejudice". My current favorite fiction book now is "all systems red" by Martha wells and her murderbot series.
My favorite nonfiction book is "being mortal" by Atul gawande.
As a child, I was very fond of the Black Stallion series by Walter Farley. A couple of excellent novels for adults that I have read and reread but cannot seem to discard or sell back and so remain on my very crowded bookshelves: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh and Straight Man by Richard Russo. The first is very serious, and the second is very funny and in a category of that includes Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacker. I guess I would call that category "novels that permit us to laugh at academics being one myself." Mary in MN
My enduring first favorite is "Emily of New Moon" by LM Montgomery. But, it is tremendously difficult to pick a second favorite. There are so many good ones.
I loved Coraline as a teen. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather is lovely.
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton. My 7th grader just read it for school, and when he brought it home to read chapter 1 on the first day of the quarter, I let him finish, then fished it out of his backpack to devour once again. It's been my favorite for forever.
I've been puzzling over this question. I think it's a toss-up between Pride and Prejudice and The Portrait of a Lady. And Dickens's Bleak House is right up there, too, along with Moby Dick. All great novels. And Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte. For re-reading over and over, probably Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre. The others seem more like special occasion books. When I'm feeling fragile, I sometimes read all the Anne of Green Gables books in a binge. I feel as if I should list Middlemarch, but sections of that are really painful for me to read. And I can re-read many of Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey mysteries with pleasure, especially Have His Carcase and Gaudy Night. Not very good at picking a favorite, am I?
I've been thinking. And thinking. But no way can I pick a favorite book. But three of my favorites are Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute, Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield, and Wildwood by Elinor Florence.
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