A bit pretentious? We don't mean to be so, we just want to pass on the list of lovely books that we've read and enjoyed. The list below is comprised mostly of science fiction, but you'll find some other genre also. Oh- just read them. You'll like them! Promise!

In no particular order...

The Green Sky Trilogy

(Zilpha Keatley Snyder)

Below the Root

And All Between

Until the Celebration

The Dark is Rising Sequence

(Susan Cooper)

Under Sea, Under Stone

The Dark is Rising

Greenwitch

The Grey King

Silver on the Tree

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(Thomas Hardy)

The Snow Queen
World's End
The Summer Queen
(Joan D. Vinge)

Dragonflight
Dragonquest
The White Dragon, etc.
(Anne McCaffrey)

The Warrior and the Wise Man
(David Wisniewski)

Tam-Lin
The Selkie Girl
(Susan Cooper)

The Fairy Rebel
(Lynn Reid Banks)

The Iron Tower Trilogy

(Dennis L. McKiernan)

Shadows of Doom

The Darkest Day

This Perfect Day
A Kiss Before Dying
(Ira Levin)

The Thorn Birds
(Colleen McCollough)

Any Children's Books
(Jane Yolen)

Matilda
(Roald Dahl)

The Pull of the Moon
(Elizabeth Berg)

The Anything Box
The People Series
(Zenna Henderson)

The Dispossessed
The Left Hand of Darkness
(Ursula K. LeGuin)

The Three Musketeers
The Count of Monte Cristo
(Alexandre DuMas)

Fahrenheit 451
(Ray Bradbury)

Catch-22
(Joseph Heller)

Slaughterhouse-5
(Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)

Brave New World
(Aldous Huxley)

1984
(Orson Welles)

Democracy in America
(Alexis de Tocqueville)
Just kidding!

Madam, Will You Talk?
Crystal Cave
Hollow Hills
(Mary Stewart)

The Darkover Series
The Mists of Avalon
The Lady of Avalon
(Marion Zimmer Bradley)

The Indigo Series
(Louise Cooper)

Raisin in the Sun
(Lorraine Hansberry)

Black Boy
(Richard Wright)

East of the Sun, West of the Moon
(Mercer Meyer)

The Westing Game
(Ellen Raskin)

Chronicles of the Deryni
(Katherine Kurtz)

Only Yesterday
(?)

The White Raven
The Serpent's Tooth
(Diana L. Paxson)