FAVORITE BOOKS

Whenever I click on writers' web sites, I like seeing a listing of their favorite books.  I enjoy a book first for character, then language, next a sense of place,  and finally plot.   It’s no wonder that plotting is the hardest thing for me as a writer.  But we all have to struggle with something! Here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed the most ~

Fiction

•    The Shell Seekers, Rosamund Pilcher

•    Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisters, Rebecfca Wells

•    At Home in Mitford, Jan Karon

•    Silver Anniversary, Maeve Benchey

•    Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin

•    Citizen Vince, Jess Walter

•    Five Quarters of an Orange, Joanne Harris

•    Life of Pi, Yann Martel

•    Mosquito Coast, Paul Thoreau

•    Outer Banks, Ann Rivers Siddon

•    Cold Mountain, David Frazier

Non-Fiction

•    An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter

•    Dispatches from the Edge, Anderson Cooper

•    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

•    Mothers Who Think, Camile Peri & Kate Moses, editors, Salon Magazine

Poetry

•    Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

An Occasional Mystery

•    The Pied Piper, Ridley Pearson