Books I keep recommending

YOUR COLLECTION0 OF 9

Put them in any order you like.

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    Example lists to get you thinking.

    Illustrative selections, not reader submissions. Make your own choices.

    The familiar shelf

    Illustrative selection · enduring fiction

    1. A Tree Grows in BrooklynBetty Smith
    2. BelovedToni Morrison
    3. The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
    4. To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf
    5. The Left Hand of DarknessUrsula K. Le Guin
    6. The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry

    Another way of seeing

    Illustrative selection · ideas and perspectives

    1. The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin
    2. Braiding SweetgrassRobin Wall Kimmerer
    3. Ways of SeeingJohn Berger
    4. A Room of One’s OwnVirginia Woolf
    5. The Book of DelightsRoss Gay
    6. Silent SpringRachel Carson

    Stories to return to

    Illustrative selection · familiar company

    1. The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett
    2. Little WomenLouisa May Alcott
    3. Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery
    4. The HobbitJ. R. R. Tolkien
    5. Where the Wild Things AreMaurice Sendak
    6. The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame
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