Thirteen of My Favorite Books
- Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell—introduced me to tragic romance
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy—I wanted Tess to live in the end.
- The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy—another tragic romance tale
- The Winds of War, by Herman Wouk—WWII, concentration camps, star-crossed love, need I say more?
- Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank—"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." (I love this book so much that I even own the revised critical edition published by the Netherlands Institute for War Documents.)
- Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky—kill an old lady and then cover up her murder, only to be unable to live with the guilt? Why, it's a novel-length version of "The Tell-Tale Heart"!
- Dr. Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak—unattainable love set against the backdrop of the Russian civil war
- Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo—Jean Valjean is sent to prison for 20 years for stealing a loaf of bread because he was starving... yes, I read the entire unabridged version (in English)
- The Stand, by Stephen King—post-apocalyptic fiction at its best
- Swan Song, by Robert McCammon—another post-apocalyptic fiction book; in my opinion, better than "The Stand" since I read it prior to reading "The Stand."
- Dune, by Frank Herbert—epic struggle of good vs. evil in space
- Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg—awesome book for writers who don't know what the heck they are doing
- Emily of New Moon, by L.M. Montgomery—YA novel about an orphan girl who has to live with a couple of snobbish, maiden aunts, and the clashes that ensue; when reading this book, I realized that I wanted to be a writer, just like Emily.
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