The Dog Stars and The Painter

I get the best dreams from reading it.

a private journal in which he discusses and illustrates his dreams. Awesome.

I'm sure it would speak to me too.

and Carole Nelson Douglas's Irene Adler books.

and I have gotten to know her. We lunch together with the Liberal Ladies Who Lunch group.

She is a very staunch Democrat! At last year's big fundraiser for Tarrant County Democratic Woman's Club, she donated a Book Club basket and she is willing to attend the meeting with the winner.

She also has a zillion feral cats and the local TNR folks have finally gotten them all TNRd

I adore Midnight Louie!!

Although it's been quite a while since I've read them.

Replay by Ken Grimwood.

Time and Again and From Time to Time by Jack Finney.

Time on My Hands by Peter delaCorte

One of my favorite books of all time. Everything he wrote was great!

I love Time After Time

I’ve also re-read every one of Sue Grafton’s alphabet mysteries.

I re-read “No Ordinary Time” by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I found it fascinating.

were unenthusiastic at first, but all of them loved it. I haven't read your list, but will check them out. Have a great evening...

I've only read it once, but I just loved it.

Some years later my younger son discovered it and called me up to tell me what a great book it is.

is a easy re-read, it's probably my most read book along with the Red Dwarf series and Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy lot of 4.

By far one of my favorite books. I have re read it three time now and always find gems I missed from the last time. Course Hero has a really awesome infographic on the book. Thinking about printing it

Love those, and come back to them every few years.

I start reading it on Bloomsday (June 16) each year. Generally do a chapter a day. Love that book.

Someday I hope to get to Dublin for Bloomsday. The goal then would be to read the whole book on the 15th in different portions of the city.

By Connie Willis. She has another one in the same universe that I also really love, called To Say Nothing of the Dog (the title comes from the subtitle of Three Men in a Boat) and that one's more lighthearted, but this one really stuck with me.

(There are other books in the series, but these two are the best in my opinion)

And I've read it any number of times myself.

It's become the book I recommend to people who think they don't like science fiction.

Currently she's working on a novel about Roswell.

all of John McPhee

He was such a gifted writer.

That spells, "The Stand", by Steven King.

Hey, its not sophisticated, but I love it.

It actually has characters you can care about. 2nd place: Salem's Lot. *shiver*

and I'm about due for another re-read. It's been a couple years.

In the 90s I asked a black male colleague from MS if it was true-to-life. He said yes.

Hawaii, Chesapeake, Texas, Space, South Pacific, Caribbean and so on.

was a treasure we'll not soon replace.

and the James Herriot books

And so well written.

when I watched the commentary on the movie The Haunting (based on the book), the director Robert Wise commented that when he was reading that book, someone tapped him on the shoulder and he about jumped out of his skin! He did a great job.

old Victorian farmhouse during a very windy storm.
Tree branches scratching the wooden siding, etc.

Scared the beJesus out of me.

Craig's book is an extensive history and explains a great deal about the background of WWI and WWII.

I took several courses from Craig in grad school in the 60s.

Also Grapes of Wrath, Beans of Egypt Maine.

Of course.

But most of Heinlein as well.

The Stand - Stephen King
Dune Trilogy - Frank Herbert
Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Dragon Riders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Princess Bride - William Goldman
Temple of Gold - William Goldman
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robins

I can't seem to read all of these every year any more, but they are my go to fiction feasts for sure.

Your first 4 plus It for me.

Maybe one a year LOTR
Maybe a few a year of Game of Thrones
The Belgariad series, I love the characters

I love other McCaffrey books, The Ship that Sings (?) comes to mind but I loved the Dragon Riders from long ago.

Others:
The Secret Garden
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Stranger in a Strange Land

A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 1 2 and 3 Three times each. Book 4 Two times Book 5 only once. When I can finally preorder Book Six, I will start my reread again

Auntie Mame, Around the World With Auntie Mame and The Joyous Season (my favorite) by Patrick Dennis. I would dearly love to see The Joyous Season made into a movie or short series. It is so funny. I have mentally cast it several times over the years


To KIll A Mockingbird (hasn't everyone&gt

Jane Eyre Gone With the Wind.

Tolkien

Tom Sawyer

The Godfather

Two from Shirley Jackson that are completely different from all her other work:
Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons. These are about her very large family who live in a large drafty old farmhouse in Vermont. I have probably read them 4 or 5 times each. Absolutely hysterical and another potentially great series.

Non fiction: A History of the Plantagenets includes The Conquering Family, The Magnificent Century, The Three Edwards and The Last Plantagenets. Thomas B Costain who also wrote some great fiction set in the Medieval and Early Renaissance eras

Still love the wizarding world.
Although the movies are faster.

There is a lot of horrid garbage and straight up porn, but if you take the time to look (and avert your eyes when necessary- and it's necessary, a lot. Lol!), there are some wonderful writers and stories out there. I like the ones that focus on the Marauders' time at Hogwarts and the first war.

Did get to see ‘Cursed Child’ though. Cool special effects!

Mystery and Science Fiction

Never fails to make me laugh

"Even Cowgirls Get The Blues"
"Another Roadside Attraction"

Best read while enjoying something from a neighborhood cannabis emporium (six within 15 minute walking distance).

Perfect way to revisit my "lost youth"!

"Jitterbug Perfume" my fav. I have read it out loud for at least three friends.

We have reread it nearly every year since.


The Tikkis

but I haven't done that in many years. I can read anything by Kurt Vonnegut or Robert Anton Wilson over and over again.

And the poetry of Shel Silverstein