How many favourite books do you have and what are they? How about favourite authors?
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How many favourite books do you have and what are they? How about favourite authors?
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For me, it is easier to identify favorite authors: Louise Penny, Martin Walker, Kate Morton, Charles Finch, Laurie R. King, Allen Eskens, Jo Nesbo, Anita Shreve, Bernard Cornwell, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Charlene O’Connor, Brian Jacques
Winnie the Pooh is my all time favorite book – as a child, as a young adult, and as an antique person. So many lessons to learn from such innocence. Otherwise, Louise Penny, Tana French, and Kate Quinn are my current favorite authors. Never have I ever re-read a book until Louise Penny entered my life.
Oh my, I would have to go by favorite authors by time period and the list would just be too long. 😀 But some of my favourite books/authors in no particular order: Jane Eyre, the Jungle Book, Charlotte’s Web, Watership Down. Any book by Angela Carter, EM Forster, Dorothy L Sayers or Louise McMaster Bujold. Louise Penny, of course. But also Laurie R. King, Kate Quinn, PD James. And I have recently read a few books by Peter Lovesey and I enjoyed them a lot.
I loved Watership Down. And Brian Jacques Redwall series.
I’ve never heard of Brian Jacques or his series I will have to look into it. I recently read The Golden Compass and all Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials books after it was recommended to me and I thought it absolutely fantastic, a remarkable children’s series that, like Watership Down, is profound reading for an adult or child.
I think there is a theme in my list and I have reread all of these at least once. Peter Tremayne, Nevada Barr, Tony and Anne Hillerman, Laura Lippman, William Kent Krueger and Louise Penny, of course. From a different genre but an author who creates an amazing sense of place and truly quirky but believable characters, Anne Tyler. And I got started with Nancy Drew. Years ago a friend gave my older daughter the entire series of Nancy Drew books; she has sent those on to her goddaughter.
Nancy Drew was my first love. After further thought, I think my favorite books are The Little Prince, The Velveteen Rabbit and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I forgot William Kent Krueger as a favorite author.
It’s funny how easy it is to remember childhood favorites but when I try to bring books as an adult that I have the same feeling for I have a harder time. Winnie the Pooh was definitely one of my childhood favorites as was the Richard Scary books, Pipi Longstockings and the Secret Garden, which when I think about it now is really a mystery book isn’t it? No wonder I still love mysteries so much. But I also loved the Hardy Boys (Nancy Drew just wasn’t available at my local library or the 2nd hand bookshops) and Tin Tin. I enjoy many contemporary writers so it’s hard to single any one out. Like others I like William Kent Krueger. I also like Martin Walker and Richard Osman.