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Favorites, Memories and Others…
Bethany Branch, January 28, 2005
Books I Haved Liked…

Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; and Through the Looking Glass
(my particular favorite is the book-on-tape version, read by Michael Page)

Pearl Cleage
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Pam Crooks
Hannah’s Vow

t.s. eliot
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

Laura Esquivel
Like Water for Chocolate

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha

Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible

Jo Ann Mapson
Hank & Chloe
Loving Chloe

Anchee Min
Becoming Madame Mao

Toni Morrison
Beloved

Judith Merkle Riley
The Serpent Garden
Master of All Desires
In Pursuit of the Green Lion

Judy Reene Singer
Horseplay

Linda Lay Shuler
She Who Remembers
Voice of the Eagle
Let the Drum Speak

Amy Tan
The Bonesetter’s Daughter

Agnes Smedley
Daughter of the Earth

Rebecca Wells
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Favorite Children’s Books (these are all jPs)

Verna Aardema
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
(the version with audiotape)

Barbara Cooney
Miss Rumphius

Crockett Johnson
Harold and the Purple Crayon

Judith Viorst
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day

Mo Willems
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog

Charlotte Zolotow
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present

Books to Read… (an incomplete listing)

Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code

Pearl Cleage
Some Things I Never Thought I’d Do

Kaye Gibbons
A Virtuous Woman

Sally Mandel
Heart and Soul

Yann Martel
Life of Pi

Anchee Min
Empress Orchid

Carson McCullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Amy Tan
The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings