Books

We love books in our family.  Here is a list of books that we love.  As we find more books we will add to the list.


Books (all ages)
A Long Way From Chicago, A Year Down Yonder, Season of Gifts, Richard Peck
Back to Blackbrick, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
Black Book of Secrets, F.E. Higgins
Blossom Culp books, Richard Peck
The Blue Sword and The Hero's Crown, Robin McKinley
Chrestomanci, Diana Wynn Jones
Dark is Rising Series, Susan Cooper
Dragon Slippers, Jessica Day George (first of a trilogy)
Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia Wrede
Fair Weather, Richard Peck
The Great Brain, John D Fitzgerald
Harry Potter, JK Rowling (all 7)
Here Lies the Librarian, Richard Peck
The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, Christopher Healy (a series about four of the Princes Charming)
The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy, Claire Dunkle
Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynn Jones (also the beginning of a series, but can be stand alone as well)
I, Q., Roland Smith
Igraine the Brave, Cornelia Funke
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Maryrose Wood
Knight's Tales, Gerald Morris (King Arthur, this is for a slightly younger audience than his other series)
Lisel & Po, Lauren Oliver
Magic and Malice/Merlion the Magician and Magician's Ward, Patricia Wrede
Moon over Manifest, Clare Vanderpool
Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
Olivia and the Fairy Princesses, Ian Falconer
Princess Academy, Shannon Hale
Princess of the Midnight Ball, Jessica Day George (this is the first of a trilogy and they are all great)
Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen, Garth Nix (this is a trilogy)
Sorcery and Cecelia, Patricia C Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
Soup, Richard Peck
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow, Jessica Day George
Squires Tales, Gerald Morris (King Arthur legend, I love the whole series)
Tales from Earthsea, Ursula LeGuin
The False Prince and the other 2 in the series, Jennifer A. Nielsen
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman  
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Maryrose Wood
The Teacher's Funeral, Richard Peck
The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner (stands alone but the whole series is great)
The Tiffany Aching books, Terry Pratchett
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken
Tuesdays at the Castle, Jessica Day George
Weekday Series, Garth Nix
The Westing Game, Elin Raskin
When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead

Cotton Candy
Curtseys and Conspiracies, Gail Carriger (this is a series)
Gallagher Girls, Ally Carter (series, spy school for girls, oh yes)
Heist Society, Ally Carter (also a series)
Ruby Red, Kerstin Gier

Classics
Anne of Green Gables, L M Montgomery (the entire series)
Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
Jane Austen...all of them
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell (be warned that the author died before she finished writing this book)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Doyle

Regency
Georgette Heyer...all of them (the regency ones)
Newt's Emerald, Garth Nix (yes, he really did write a regency romance)

Adultish
Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley (series)

Nonfiction
Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts
We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, Cokie Roberts
Wild Swans, Jung Chang
David McCullough books are interesting (usually, but not so much the one about the Panama Canal or the Brooklyn Bridge, although they have their places too)