Suggested "Good Reads"

One of the first things I always try to do with new friends is pick their brains for good books they've read. I thought I'd share some of my favorites with you:

Literature

• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• My Antonia by Willa Cather

Contemporary

• A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
• Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Birds of America by Lori Moore
• Anything by Tom Robbins, but especially
  • Jitterbug Perfume
  • Still Life With Woodpecker
  • Skinny Legs and All
  • Another Roadside Attraction

Romance

Fantasy

• Below the Root Trilogy by Zylpha Keatley Snyder
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper

Science Fiction

• The Heliconia Series by Brian Aldiss
• The Foundation Series by Issac Asimov
• Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
• Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
• Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe
• The Diamond Age - or The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

Non-fiction

• High Tide in Tuscon by Barbara Kingsolver

Kid's (well, Adolescent) books

• The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• And Both Were Young by Madeline D'L'Engle
• Sabriel by Garth Nix
• Forever by Judy Blume

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