Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Pilgrim by Timothy Findlay
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Soul Prints by Marc Gafni
All the Harry Potter books....
Soul Mates by Thomas Moore
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
This is a selection of books within arms reach as I sit typing this post. I love books. A bookstore is my personal heaven. I could get lost in the shelves. As a child I would hide in a corner of our town library and just read. If I owned every book I had read I would be surrounded! I am a voracious reader. But I also have a policy for belongings... if you don't love it or if it is not useful, pass it on.
Each of the books were pointed out to me by different people, at different times in my life. Each with a different style or content. Fiction or non. Yet I could pick up any one of them at this second, sit down and become embraced by the story immediately. The list is not one of favorites or must reads. Just books I happen to have loved and read more than once or twice. How much I admire those who write fiction and weave characters, lives and experiences together in a way that captures us the reader. I have tried to write, but it all sounds like something I have read. I will stick to non-fiction I suppose. I think what people love and cherish from favourite music, to food, books, people ... tells us much about them. Perhaps I will formulate my own list of things I would like to know about all people I meet... I do know that one question would be to list the books on a shelf that they have read and why they kept them!