In one way or the other each of these books has touched me, is a very fond memory, and always a dear friend.

Early years:

Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Lewis Carroll: Alice In Wonderland

Brothers Grimm: every fairytale

Aesop’s Fables

The Tales of Mullah Nassirrudin

Myths from East and West

Arabian Nights

Enid Blyton: The Enchanted Forest (all the Magic Faraway Tree Series), The Adventures   

                      of the Wishing Chair, The Book of Brownies

Middle Years

Judy Blume: Are you there God? It’s Me Margaret, ‘Deenie’.

S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders, Rumble Fish

Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank

Ian Serraillier: The Silver Sword

James Vance Marshall: Walkabout

Helen Wells: Silver Wings for Vickie

Marcia Levin: Donna Parker

Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, The Little Princess

R.D. Blackmore: Lorna Doone

C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia

Comics: American Archie, British Bunty, Russian Baba Yaga, Indian Amar Chitra Katha

Norse Myths, Greek Myths, and African Creation Stories

Sweet Dreams series and Sweet Valley High series

High School:

John Donne: The Flea (poem)

John Keats: Lamia (poem)

Anne Sexton: Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward (poem)

Shirley Jackson: The Lottery (short story)

Wilson Katiyo: The Son of the Soil

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility

Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native, Tess of D’Urbervilles, Jude The Obscure

Roald Dahl: The Collected Short Stories

Somerset Maugham: The Razor’s Edge

V.C. Andrews: Petals on the Wind

L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables (all the Anne books)

Enid Blyton: Come to the Circus, The Children of Willow Farm, The Five Find Outers,

St. Claires, Malory Towers, The House at the Corner, Those Dreadful            Children, The Island of Adventure (all the adventure series)

‘Tharain Afsane’: A collection of thirteen stories in Urdu featuring writers like Krishn     

                          Chander, Ghulam Abbas, and Premchand

And Beyond:

Ayn Rand: We The Living, Atlas Shrugged

Jim Fergus: A Thousand White Women

Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible

Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance

Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day

Vikram Seth: The Golden Gates, A Suitable Boy

Wallace Stegner: Angle of Repose, All The Little Live Things (everything by Stegner)

John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath

Gloria Naylor: The Women of Brewster Place

Robert Olen Butler: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Tennessee Williams: Baby Doll, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie

Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis: The Dragonlance Series

Isaac Asimov: The Foundation Series

Frank Herbert: Dune

Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye, Beloved

George Orwell: Animal Farm, 1984

Aldous Huxley : Brave New World

Ian McEwan: Atonement

Zadie Smith: White Teeth

Blog Links:

M J Rose’s Buzz, Balls & Hype: http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/BkDoctorSin/

Mark Thwaite’s ReadySteadyBook

http://www.readysteadybook.com/blog.html

Todd Pierce’s excellent agent site:

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~tjp4773/agentsactivelylooking.html

About book reading in the Middle East

http://www.moorishgirl.com/