FAVORITE BOOKS

There are many books I love, but these are those that, given the circumstances of book burning in Fahrenheit 451, I would memorize to preserve for the world.

Cather, Willa                 O Pioneers!                                                        

                                       Shadows on the Rock

Chaon, Dan                   You Remind Me of Me

Dorris, Michael               A Yellow Raft on Blue Water

Finkelstein, Barbara     Summer Long-a-coming

Hegi, Ursula                   Floating in My Mother’s Palm

                                        Stones from the River

Mason, Bobbi Ann         Spence and Lila

McCullers, Carson       The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Munro, Alice                  Selected Stories

                                       (All short story collections)

Potok, Chaim                 The Gift of Asher Lev  

Roth, Phillip                   The Human Stain

Russo, Richard              Nobody’s Fool

Smith, Lee                      Saving Grace

Strout, Elizabeth            Abide with Me

                                       Amy and Isabel

Thomas, Abigail             Herb’s Pajamas