There's something about new books that just appear on your doorstep. I love libraries, but I also like to keep my books. I like to dog-ear the pages and write in them. The ones I love are like a favorite pair of sneakers – worn in. When I read Caster Girl 25's post yesterday, it made me think about all my books with their cracked spines.
Here's the hit list, my all-time favorite (in no particular order):
1. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
2. Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
3. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
4. Almanac of the Dead -Leslie Marmon Silko
5. In the Time of Butterflies – Julia Alvarez
6. Where the Red Fern Grows -Wilson Rawls
7. Animal Farm – George Orwell
8. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Slam (Poetry) – Various
10. A Good Man is Hard to Find – Flannery O' Connor
11. The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
12. The Book of Questions – Pablo Neruda
13. The Giver – Lois Lowry
14. Little Altars Everywhere – Rebecca Wells
15. Abarat – Clive Barker
16. The Supernaturalist – Eoin Colfer
17. The Wish List – Eoin Colfer
18. The Name of This Book Is Secret – Pseudonymous Bosh
19. Star Girl – Jerry Spinelli
20. Wringer – Jerry Spinelli
21. Freak the Mighty – Rodman Philbrick
22. Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
23. The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
24. New Stories from the South 1998 & 1999
25. The Prince of Tides – Pat Conroy
26. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
27. Spilling Open – Sabrina Ward Harrison
28. Lord of the Rings – J.R.R Tolkien
29. The Golden Compass – Phillip Pullman
30. The Norton Anthology of Poetry
31. Primo Levi – Survival in Auschwitz – Primo Levi
32. Monster – Walter Dean Myers
33. The Portable Henry Rollins – Henry Rollins
34. Brave on the Rocks – Sabrina Ward Harrison
35. I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
36. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist – Rachel Cohn & David Leviathan
37. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War – H.W. Crocker III
38. The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History – Thomas E. Woods Jr.
This is what arrived in my Amazon box…
Spilling Open by Sabrina Ward Harrison
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
The True & the Questions by Sabrina Ward Harrison
Bones of Faerie by
A Pink Spiral Notebook
Wake by Lisa McMann
Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith
a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author and comic book writer. As an award-winning, Bram Stoker Award-nominated young adult author of 12 novels and graphic novels, she has been published in 51 countries and 38 languages and her books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Kami’s best known works include the Beautiful Creatures series, Teen Titans: Raven, The X-Files: Agent of Chaos, The Lovely Reckless, Broken Beautiful Hearts, and the DC Black Label comic Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity. She is also a cofounder of the Kid Lit book festival YALLFest.
