My Favorite Books and Authors

This is a work in progress: I add them as I remember them.

Adams, Douglas
         The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Bach, Richard
         Illusions

Berendt, John
         Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Blume, Judy
         Tiger Eyes

Braun, Lilian Jackson
         The Cat Who . . . mysteries

Breathnach, Sarah Ban
         Simple Abundance

Dahl, Roald
         Matilda

Doyle, Arthur Conan
I have read the novels about Sherlock Holmes, but I don't like them as well as the short stories - here are the short story collections.
         The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
         Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
         The Return of Sherlock Holmes
         His Last Bow
         The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

Fitzhugh, Louise
         Harriet the Spy

Flagg, Fannie
         Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
         Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Gilman, Dorothy
         The Tightrope Walker
         The Clairvoyant Countess
         Kaleidescope
Gilman is best known for Mrs. Pollifax.

Golden, Arthur
         Memoirs of a Geisha

Grizzard, Lewis
         If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground

Hailey, Elizabeth Forsythe
         A Woman of Independent Means

Hayden, Torey

Herriot, James
         James Herriot's Dog Stories

Hinton, S. E.
         The Outsiders

Karon, Jan
         The Mitford series

Kidder, Tracy
         Among Schoolchildren

King, Stephen
         On Writing
         The Green Mile

Kinsella, W. P.
         Shoeless Joe - This is the book Field of Dreams was based on.

L'Engle, Madeleine
         A Severed Wasp
         Certain Women
         The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

I must add that A Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle was my first favorite book, and where my handle, Mrs. Whatsit, came from.

Lewis, C. S.
         The Chronicles of Narnia:
          The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
          Prince Caspian
          The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
          The Silver Chair
          The Horse and His Boy
          The Magicians Nephew
          The Last Battle

Lindquist, Jennie D.
         The Golden Name Day
         The Little Silver House
         The Crystal Tree

Lovelace, Maud Hart
         The Betsy-Tacy-Tib series
         Betsy-Tacy
         Betsy, Tacy, and Tib
         Betsy and Tacy go over the Big Hill
         Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
         Heavens to Betsy
         Betsy In Spite of Herself
         Betsy was a Junior
         Betsy and Joe
         Betsy and the Great World
         Betsy's Wedding
         There is one book not about Betsy: Emily of Deep Valley

Lowry, Lois
         The Giver

McCaffrey, Anne
         Dragonsinger

McMurtry, Larry
         Buffalo Girls
         Leaving Cheyenne

Montgomery, L. M.
         The Blue Castle
         The Story Girl
         The Golden Road

Morris, Willie - My favorite author from my home state, Mississippi
         Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo

Myrer, Anton
         The Last Convertible

Newman, Daisy
         I Take Thee Serenity

Portis, Charles
         True Grit

Raskin, Ellen
         The Westing Game

Safire, William
         Full Disclosure

Sasson, Jean
         Princess

Smith, Betty
         A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
         Maggie-Now

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
         The Egypt Game

Stratton-Porter, Gene
         A Girl of the Limberlost

Tartt, Donna
         The Secret History

Thurber, James
         My Life and Hard Times

Vaughn, Alan
         Incredible Coincidence

Voigt, Cynthia
         Homecoming
         Dicey's Song
         A Solitary Blue

Walker, Alice
         The Color Purple

West, J. B.
         Upstairs at the White House

White, Edward Lucas
         The Unwilling Vestal

Wouk, Herman
         Marjorie Morningstar

Short stories:

Faulkner, William
         "A Rose for Emily"

Henry, O.
         "After Twenty Years"

Wilde, Oscar
         "The Happy Prince"