Favorite Books

Want to read an essay by someone whose taste in reading matches your own? Select essays by the favorite book of the author.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The, Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Almanac of the Dead, Leslie Marmon Silko
Angle of Repose, Walter Stegner
Animals as Teachers and Healers, Susan Chernak McElroy
Beloved, Toni Morisson
Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris, A.J. Liebling
Bible, The
Blue Highways, William Least Heat Moon
Book of Guys, Garrison Keillor
Cane, Jean Toomer
Canto General, Pablo Neruda
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria DeJesus, Carolina DeJesus
Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, The, Kathleen Norris
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, Edward Abbey
Double Flame, The, Octavio Paz
Eighty-four Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
Eloise, Kay Thompson
Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Family Linen, Lee Smith
Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense, David Guterson
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Fine and Private Place, Peter Beagle
Fire at Eden’s Gate, Brent Walth
Fools Crow, James Welch
Forest House, The, Marion Zimmer Bradley
French Lieutenant’s Woman, The, John Fowels
Good Earth, The, Pearl S. Buck
Guns of August, The, Barbara Tuchman
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie
House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul
House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Imperial Masquerade, Lewis H. Lapham
Inner Reaches of Outer Space, The, Joseph Campbell
James Joyce, Richard Ellman
Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Letters From the Earth, Mark Twain
Letters to a Young Poet, R.M. Rilke
Liar’s Club, Mary Karr
Little Notebook, The, Nicole Gausseron

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