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