My Favorite Authors and Books

Sherman Alexie’s ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN. The cartoons were brilliant, and the humor so honest and heart-breaking. Definitely one of my favorite reads so far this year.

Sarah Aronson’s HEAD CASE. What I love most about this novel is that we’re not made to feel sorry for the main character, Frank, who has been paralyzed from the neck down after driving drunk, and killing his girlfriend and an innocent bystander. We’re taken along on his blaringly painful journey as he settles in to his new, limited life. The last few pages gave me goosebumps!

Libba Bray’s Great and Terrible Beauty Trilogy. Because who couldn’t love a turn-of-the-century English boarding school dark fantasy/romance trilogy?

Jane Yolen’s The Queen’s Own Fool and Girl in a Cage, among her many, many others.

Katherine Patterson’s Bridge to Terabithia. She signed my copy, and I had her make it out to my two girls…they’ll learn to read in a few years.

Martine Leavitt’s Keturah and Lord Death. A spellbinding read, and the setting was so well done.

Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series. Pure bliss! I can’t wait for the fourth to come out.

Natalie Babbitt’s Eyes of the Amaryllis. I can’t wait until my girls are old enough for me to read this to them!

Laurie Faria Stolarz’s Blue is for Nightmare’s trilogy. Spooky, funny, mysterious…all kinds of good stuff.

Lois Lowry’s The Giver. Haunting, spare, and a book I think should be incorporated into high school curriculums.

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