DYM Readers' Favorites


I asked and you had a lot to say. Here is a list of some of your favorite books.


The Ambiguous Adventure – Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Babel Tower – A.S. Byatt
Battle Cry – Leon Uris
Beach Music – Pat Conroy
The Blue Castle – L.M. Montgomery
The Blue Sword – Robin McKinley
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Charms for the Easy Life – Kaye Gibbons
Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle – C.S. Lewis
A Circle of Quiet – Madeleine L’Engle
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother – James McBride
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister – Gregory Maguire
Crossing to Safety – Wallace Stegner
The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood
Enchantment – Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting – Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
Falling Leaves – Adeline Yen Mah
The Four Agreements – Don Miguiel Ruiz
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Freak the Mighty – Rodman Philbrick
A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
A Girl Named Zippy – Haven Kimmel
The Giver – Lois Lowry
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Great Explosion – Eric Frank Russell
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harry Potter Series – J. K. Rowling
Heavens to Betsy – Beth Pattillo
The Hero and the Crown – Robin McKinley
The Hiding Place – Corrie Ten Boom
Hold On To Your Kids – Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Matι
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
King Kelson’s Bride – Katherine Kurtz
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
The Known World – Edward P. Jones
The Ladies Auxiliary – Tova Mirvis
The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint Exupιry
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
The Painted House – John Grisham
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
O Pioneers! – Willa Cather
Obasan – Joy Kogawa
The Odyssey – Homer, translated by W.H.J. Rousse
Of Love and Shadows – Isabel Allende
Oh Money! Money! - Eleanor H. Porter
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
Parent Effectiveness Training – Thomas Gordon
Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Rachel’s Holiday – Marian Keyes
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
Redeeming Love – Francine Rivers
The Road Less Traveled – M. Scott Peck
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
The Soldier of the Great War – Mark Helprin
The Stone Angel – Margaret Laurence
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
To Sail Beyond the Sunset – Robert Heinlein
Traveling Mercies – Anne Lamott
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Under the Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes
A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down – Richard Adams
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day – Pearl Cleage
Where the Heart Is – Billie Letts
The Yadda Yadda Prayer Group – Neta Jackson
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