I recently developed a desire to create a list of my all-time favorite books. I have been a reader all of my life, so that is quite a challenge. But I created a list on my phone and add books as I think of them. I started out wanting to narrow it to my top 10, but it seemed impossible. Just impossible. So here are my top 50. I am constantly adding to the list. If I wait until my list is "complete," I will never publish it. I will publish this list of 50 now and maybe do it again when I have a top 100 favorite books. That won't take long!
* I decided I was being ever so wimpy to not give a top ten. I have sweated bullets over this, but I put an * by the ones that I say are my top ten. If I did this tomorrow, I make put an * by different ones. But * these are my top ten today.
They are in no particular order:
*The Book of Mormon
*Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
*Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery
*Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wiler
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawles
*A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley by Courtney Walsh
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
*Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne
Surprised by Joy by C S Lewis
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurie
*Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
Christy by Catherine Marshall
Julie by Catherine Marshall
Follow the River by James Alexander Thorn
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Mrs. Mike by Benedict Freedman
*The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Two Old Women by Velma Walls
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Charlotte's Webb by EB White
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Help by Katherine Stockett
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Jesus the Christ by James Talmage
Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
Preach My Gospel
Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Educated by Tara Westover
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor
Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata
A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash
*The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede
The Last Mile Home by Di Morrissey
The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich
You Are My Sunshine by Sean Dietrich
September by Rosamonde Pilcher
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
*The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
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