There are countless books that have had an effect on the way I view the world. I imagine this list will grow until the end of time, but here are a few that resonated the most
- all or in part - in no particular order.
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Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
Quiet by Susan Cain
The Grace in Aging and The Grace in Dying by Kathleen Dowling Singh
Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott
Quit Like a Woman by Holly Whitaker
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
Radical Candor by Kim Scott
The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
World Travel by Anthony Bourdain
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come by Jessica Pan
The Wolves at the Door by Judith L Pearson
Just for fun and because my stepson is becoming a voracious reader, these are a few of my childhood favorites. These are to be blamed credited for my love of reading (and R’s too)!
All the currently banned books
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
My Brother Sam is Dead by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
Heart of Darkness
…hahaha just kidding
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Freddie taught me how to feel, ok? I didn’t know…
The Chronicles of Narnia series by CS Lewis
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
Suze taught me how to enjoy a good book by the lake
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine D’Engle
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C O’Brien
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
The Divergent series by Veronica Roth
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
cue the Anglophilia
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Define Normal by Julie Anne Peters
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
I still think about ‘wool pooh’ a couple times a month
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
This one became much special-er when my niece asked me to read it to her before bed every night. We got it memorized. Then we started time trials.
Bunnicula by Deborah Howe
Esperanza Rising
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Olson’s Meat Pies by Peter Cohen
The Amelia Bedelia series by Peggy Parish
I think of drawing the drapes every evening when I draw the drapes
City of Ember by Jean DuPrau
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne
All of the Pony Pals books by Jeanne Betancourt
Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
To be expanded as more books come to mind…
