“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.” – Christopher Morley #reading #booklove

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A few favorite reads from my youth, still sources of enjoyment as a reader and inspiration as a writer:

• The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams)
• Winnie-the-Pooh (A.A. Milne)
• Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow)
• Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
• Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
• A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
• The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
• Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

More-recent favorites, an eclectic collection of memoirs and novels, all highly recommended: 

• The Midnight Watch (David Dyer)
• News of the World (Paulette Jiles)
• A Hundred Small Lessons (Ashley Hay)
• A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)
• The Orchardist (Amanda Coplin)
• Burial Rites (Hannah Kent)
• The Story of Beautiful Girl (Rachel Simon),
• All That is Solid Melts into Air (Darragh McKeon)
• Pictures of You (Caroline Leavitt)
• Prayers for Sale (Sandra Dallas)
•  From Baghdad with Love (Jay Kopleman)
• Alice I Have Been (Melanie Benjamin)
• The Personal History of Rachel DuPree and The Promise (Ann Weisgarber),
• The Invisible Mountain (Carolina de Robertis)
• The Snow Child (Eowyn Ivey)
• The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman)
• The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)

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Where will you find your next great read?

No vacation is complete without a visit to and purchase from the local bookstore.