My Book Faves

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Ever since I first learned to read I’ve been a total book-a-holic! Just ask my Mom how many books I’ve bought, borrowed and begged for over the years. And my husband is flabbergasted at the number of books I’ve gotten over the past couple of years (I think its time for a new bookcase). *grin*

I remember my first grade teacher used to have the other kids come to me when they needed help with reading and she was busy. By third grade, I had my own separate spelling test. I was reading Shakespeare during junior high (geek alert!). It never stopped being that way—the constant reading and the burning desire to read more. I’m surprised I’m not totally blind (reading under a blanket with a flashlight as a kid comes to mind).

Anyhow, without further ado, I thought I’d clue you in to some of my fave books~~~

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• The Fionavar Tapestry – Guy Gavriel Kay
• Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkein
• Time Enough For Love – Robert Heinlein
• Dragon Prince/Dragon Star Series – Melanie Rawn
• Sun Sword sextet – Michelle West
• Kushiel’s Legacy – Jacqueline Carey
  
• The Books of Pern – Anne McCaffrey
• The Belgariad & The Mallorean – David Eddings
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant – Stephen Donaldson
• The Amber Books – Roger Zelazny
• The Elric Books – Michael Moorcock
• Blood Music – James Morrow
• The Disappearance – Philip K. Wylie
• The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Rediscovery of Man – Cordwainer Smith
  
• The World Inside – Robert Silverberg
• The Wheel of Time Series – Robert Jordan
• Incarnations of Immortality Series & Macroscope – Piers Anthony
  
• In Conquest Born – C.S. Friedman
• Dune books – Frank Herbert
• Books of Swords – Fred Saberhagen
• The Chanur Books – C.J. Cherryh
• The Foundation Series – Isaac Asimov
• Riverboat Books – Philip Jose Farmer
• Earthsea Series – Ursula K. LeGuin
  
• Alas, Babylon – Pat Frank
• The Mote in God’s Eye – Larry Niven
• Lucifer’s Hammer – Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
• Ingathering: The Complete People Stories – Zenna Henderson
• Urshurak – Greg Hildebrandt
• The Deryni books – Katherine Kurtz
  
• Red Moon and Black Mountain – Joy Chant
• Riftwar & Serpentwar books – Raymond E. Feist
  
• Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy – Patricia McKillip
  

• T.S. Eliot
• Rumi
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Robert Frost
• Walt Whitman
• Kahlil Gibran
• Pablo Neruda
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Octavio Paz
• Hugh Prather

• Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
• You Can’t Go Home Again – Thomas Wolfe
• The books of Daphne du Maurier – whom I’m named after *s*
• The Magus – John Fowle
• The Celestine Prophecy – James Redfield
• The Bridge Across Forever – Richard Bach
• Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
• The Works of Shakespeare
• The books of Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

• A Course in Miracles
• The Bible
• The books of Marianne Williamson
• Compassionate Living – Jerome Stefaniak
• Inner Simplicity – Elaine St. James
• Manifest Your Destiny – Wayne W. Dyer
• I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was – Barbara Sher
• Are You the One For Me? – Barbara DeAngelis, PhD
• A Gift For All Mankind – Tara Singh
• Everday Zen – Charlotte Joko Beck
• LifeSkills – Richard J. Leider
• Feeling Good – David D. Burns, M.D.
• How To Heal Depression – Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D. and Peter McWilliams
• Conversations with God – Neale Donald
• Gift From the Sea – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Codependent No More and The Lessons of Love – Melody Beattie
• Care of the Soul and Soulmates – Thomas Moore
• The Road Less Traveled – M. Scott Peck
• The Power of Myth – Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
• Chop Wood, Carry Water – Rick Fields, Peggy Taylor, Rex Wyler and Rick Ingrasci
• Love 101 – Peter McWilliams
• Pilgrim on Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard
• Doing Nothing – Steven Harrison
• Seven Arrows – Hyemeyohsts Storm
• Journey Beyond Words – Brent Haskell
• Book of Thoth – Aleister Crowley
• Mystical Qabalah – Dion Fortune
• The Power of Now & A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
• The Secret – Rhonda Byrne
• Journey Beyond Words – Brent Haskell
  
• All the books by William G. Gray (see Inner Shift)
  

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