These are my favorite books of all time – the dog-eared old friends that I can read over and over for that comfortable warm happy fuzzy feeling. A few have lower “replay” value, but still hold special places in my heart.
(in no particular order…)
Raymond E. Feist
The Riftwar Saga books
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
Georgette Heyer
These Old Shades
Devil’s Cub
Frederica
Arabella
Elizabeth Marie Pope
The Perilous Gard
The Sherwood Ring
F. Paul Wilson
The Adversary Cycle books
Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Game
The Alvin Maker series
Sharyn McCrumb
The Highland Series books
Bimbos of the Death Sun
Agatha Christie
Death Comes as the End
Murder on the Orient Express
Dave Barry
Assorted columns / articles
Big Trouble
Carl Hiaasen
Nearly everything he has written, with a special fondness for
Lucky You
Stormy Weather
Skinny Dip
Anne McCaffrey
Dragonflight
Andre Norton
Breed to Come
Robert Heinlein
Door Into Summer
Rex Stout
All the Nero Wolfe mysteries, with a special fondness for
Fer de Lance
Some Buried Caesar
The Black Mountain
Judith and Garfield Reeves Stevens
Shifter
Nightfeeder
Shadowhunter
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Sheri S. Tepper
The True Game Series books
Mercedes Lackey
Burning Water
Children of the Night
Jinx High
Madeleine L’Engle
The Wrinkle in Time Quartet
Lloyd Alexander
The Chronicles of Prydain
John Moressey
A Voice for Princess
The Questing of Kedrigern
Kedrigern in Wonderland
Kedrigern and the Charming Couple
George R. R. Martin
The Song of Ice and Fire Saga books
Caleb Carr
The Alienist
J.R.R. Tolkein
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Silmarillion
Tree and Leaf (short story)
Stephen King
Salem’s Lot
It
The Stand
Liese’s Story
Dan Simmons
Hyperion
Fall of Hyperion
Ilium
Olympos
The Terror
Edgar Allen Poe
The Mask of the Red Death
The Cask of Amontillado
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Purloined Letter
Terry Pratchett
Carpe Jugulum
Men at Arms
Night Watch
Thief of Time
Small Gods
Lords and Ladies
Witches Abroad
Elizabeth Peters
Die For Love
Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs
The Amelia Peabody Mysteries
Manning Coles
Drink to Yesterday
A Toast to Tomorrow
The Far Traveller
Gregory MacDonald
Fletch
Flynn
Alistair MacLean
When Eight Bells Toll
Where Eagles Dare
Ice Station Zebra
Michael Crichton
The Great Train Robbery
The Andromeda Strain
State of Fear
Parke Godwin
Fire Lord
