Here’s what I couldn’t stop reading
when I was a kid:
- Anne of Green Gables books – L.M. Montgomery
- Betsy-Tacy books – Maud Hart Lovelace
- Little House Books – Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Adventure Series – Enid Blyton
- Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
- The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Little Women
- All-of-a-Kind-Family by Sidney Taylor
- Everything by Judy Blume
- Everything by Dr. Seuss
Books and Authors I’ve loved since then
(or books I am reading and rereading…):
- Harry Potter books – J.K. Rowling
- Every book by Neil Gaiman (especially The Graveyard Book!)
- His Dark Materials and the Book of Dust – Philip Pullman
- The Penderwick Series – Jeanne Birdsell
- The Wig in The Window – Kirsten Kittscher (and her new book, Tiara on the Terrace!)
- Holly Black!
- Claire LeGrande!
- Kate DiCamillo!
- Jennifer Longo!
- Sweep by Jonathon Auxier
- Enginerds – Jarrett Lerner
- Kat Greene Comes Clean – Melissa Roske
- The Someday Birds and Stanley Will Probably Be Fine – Sally J. Pla
- Night of the Living Cuddle Bunnies and From Sunset to Sunrise – Jonathan Rosen
- Vilonia Beebe Takes Charge – Kristin L. Gray
- A Pig in the City – Jodi Kendall
- The Last 5th Grade of Emerson Elementary School and Takedown – Laura Shovan
- A Rambler Steals Home and This is Not a Valentine – Carter Higgins
- Sven Carter and the Trashmouth Effect – Rob Vlock
- Oddity – Sarah Cannon
- Dear Martin – Nic Stone
- The Stars Beneath our Feet – David Barclay Moore
- The War That Saved My Life and The War I Finally Won – Kim Brubaker Bradley
- Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson
- Fenway and Hattie books – Victoria Coe
- The Dragon’s Tomb – Patrick Samphire
- The Last Great Adventure of the PB&J Society – Janet Sumner Johnson
- Everything by Karen Foxlee!
- Hour of the Bees and Race to the Bottom of the Sea by Lindsay Eager
I am also crazy about Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Tana French, Ann Patchett, Elizabeth Gilbert, Madeleine Thien, David McCullough, Kate Atkinson, Anne Lamott
This is a never-ending list….