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The following are all books I highly recommend, and may all be purchased at
Amazon.com. In fact, I can say without hesitation that if you don't
have/haven't read any of them, you should order them right away! (Besides, if you order them
by clicking on the books below, Amazon gives me a cut...) The list is more or less complete, although
I may add descriptions of the books.
[ Children's ] [ Children's Board Books ]
[ Fantasy ] [ General Fiction ]
[ Mystery ] [ Non-fiction ]
[ Reference ]
[ Science Fiction ] [ Thriller ]
[ Young Adult ]
Children's
Amelia Bedelia, by Peggy Parish
Animalia, by Graeme Base
Curious George, by H.A. Rey
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, by Dr. Seuss
Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown & Clement Hurd
Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb, by Al Perkins and Eric Gurney
I Spy, by Walter Wick & Jean Marzollo
I Spy Fantasy, by Walter Wick & Jean Marzollo
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff
June 29th, 1999, by David Wiesner
Just for You, by Mercer Mayer
Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling
The Monster at the End of the Book, by Jon Stone
Richard Scary's Best Storybook Ever, by Richard Scary
Sheep in a Jeep, by Nancy Shaw
Sheep in a Shop, by Nancy Shaw
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales6, by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
Where the Wild Things Are1, by Maurice Sendak
Children's Board Books
Good Dog, Carl, by Alexandra Day
Moo, Baa, LA LA LA, by Sandra Boynton
Bugs at Play, by David A. Carter
Fantasy
The Arthurian Saga, by Mary Stewart:
The Crystal Cave,
The Hollow Hills,
The Last Enchantment
The Complete Book of Swords, by Fred Saberhagen
The Damiano Trilogy, by R.A. MacAvoy:
Damiano,
Damiano's Lute,
Raphael
The Dancing Gods, by Jack L. Chalker:
The Dancing Gods,
The River of Dancing Gods,
Vengeance of the Dancing Gods,
Songs of the Dancing Gods,
Horrors of the Dancing Gods
The Earthsea Trilogy, by Ursula K. Le Guin:
A Wizard of Earthsea,
The Tombs of Atuan,
The Farthest Shore
The First Chronicles of Amber, by Roger Zelazny:
Nine Princes in Amber,
The Guns of Avalon,
Sign of the Unicorn,
The Hand of Oberon,
The Courts of Chaos
The Harperhall of Pern series, by Anne McCaffrey:
Dragonsong,
Dragonsinger,
Dragondrums
Legends of Camber of Culdi, by Katherine Kurtz:
Camber of Culdi,
Saint Camber,
Camber the Heretic
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien:
The Fellowship of the Ring,
The Two Towers,
Return of the King
The Martin Brewster Series, by Simon Hawke:
The Reluctant Sorcerer,
The Inadequate Adept,
The Ambivalent Magician
Mordant's Need, by Stephen Donaldson:
The Mirror of Her Dreams,
A Man Rides Through
The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
The Riftwar Saga, by Raymond Feist:
Magician: Apprentice,
Magician: Master,
Silverthorn,
A Darkness at Sethanon
The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tales of Alvin Maker, by Orson Scott Card:
Seventh Son,
Red Prophet,
Prentice Alvin,
Alvin Journeyman
The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan:
The Eye of the World,
The Great Hunt,
The Dragon Reborn,
The Shadow Rising,
The Fires of Heaven,
Lord of Chaos,
A Crown of Swords,
... [series unfinished]
General Fiction
The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone
The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk
Five Complete Novels
(Return of Jeeves, Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, Spring Fever, The Butler Did It, The Old Reliable), by P.G. Wodehouse
The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Mystery
And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie
Non-fiction
All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot
All the President's Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, by Richard Feynman
Reference
Square Foot Gardening, by Mel Bartholemew
Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Sewing
Quick Country Quilting, by Debbie Mumm
Prescription for Nutritional Healing, by James and Phyllis Balch
Science Fiction
Apprentice Adept Series, by Piers Anthony:
Split Infinity,
Blue Adept,
Juxtaposition
Contact, by Carl Sagan
Convergent Series, by Larry Niven
Dune, by Frank Herbert
The Elijah Bailey Novels, by Isaac Asimov:
The Caves of Steel,
The Naked Sun,
The Robots of Dawn
The Ender Novels, by Orson Scott Card:
Ender's Game4,5,
Speaker for the Dead4,5,
Xenocide,
Children of the Mind
A Fire Upon the Deep4, by Vernor Vinge
Flatlander/the Collected Tales of Gil 'the Arm' Hamilton, by Larry Niven
Flowers for Algernon4,5, by Daniel Keyes
The Flying Sorcerers, by David Gerrold and Larry Niven
The Foundation Series, by Isaac Asimov:
Foundation,
Foundation and Empire,
Second Foundation
I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
The Majipoor Novels, by Robert Silverberg:
Lord Valentine's Castle,
Majipoor Chronicles,
Valentine Pontifex
Protector, by Larry Niven
Space, by James Michener
Thriller
The Jack Ryan Novels, by Tom Clancy:
The Hunt for Red October,
Patriot Games,
The Cardinal of the Kremlin,
Clear and Present Danger,
The Sum of All Fears,
Debt of Honor,
Executive Orders
The Jason Bourne Novels, by Robert Ludlum:
The Bourne Identity,
The Bourne Supremacy,
The Bourne Ultimatum
Young Adult
The Austin Family Novels, by Madeleine L'Engle:
Meet the Austins,
The Moon by Night,
A Ring of Endless Night2
The B.F.G., by Roald Dahl
Bridge to Teribithia3, by Katherine Paterson
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis:
The Magician's Nephew,
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,
The Horse and His Boy,
Prince Caspian,
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,
The Silver Chair,
The Last Battle
The Cricket in Times Square, by George Seldon and Garth Williams
The Dark Is Rising Sequence, by Susan Cooper:
Over Sea Under Stone,
The Dark Is Rising2,
Greenwitch,
The Grey King3,
Silver On the Tree
The Great Brain books, by John D. Fitzgerald:
The Great Brain,
More Adventures of the Great Brain,
Me and My Little Brain,
The Great Brain at the Academy,
The Great Brain Reforms,
Return of the Great Brain,
The Great Brain Does It Again
The Mouse and the Motorcycle, by Beverly Cleary
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
The Prydain Chronicles, by Lloyd Alexander:
The Book of Three,
The Black Cauldron2,
The Castle of Llyr,
Taran Wanderer,
The High King3
Stuart Little, by E.B. White
Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls
The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1Caldacott Award Winner
2Newbery Honor Book
3Newbery Award Winner
4Hugo Award Winner
5Nebula Award Winner
6Caldecott Honor Book
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