Joseph J. Ellis

His Excellency: George Washington

Alex Grecian

The Yard (2012)

Robert Littell

A Nasty Piece of Work

Robert Gailbrath

Cuckoo's Calling
The Silkworm

Erik Larson

Isaac's Storm

After the first 45 pages I started to enjoy reading this book. It tells about THE hurricane that destroyed Galveston at the turn of the last century, the development of modern meteorology, and the human tragedy and loss that occurred.

Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

I'm just going to say it, I think that Henrietta Lacks and all other people whose tissues have made commercial contributions to science have been robbed. No else should be able to patent or own any part of an individuals body. Royalties would be a reasonable way to make payments to individuals and their heirs. Science is not a noble, altruistic, perfect god. It is used as an excuse for theft.

Dave Eggars

The Circle

I liked this book and I didn't like this book. I thought the world he created was little exaggerated and conspiracy theorist crazy, until I figured out that google+ decided to link all of my accounts on websites they had control of and make me more transparent with out my full consent. Who really wants the world to know what they have been watching on youtube? Now I am going to have to create a new separate online identity...

Get books for almost free!

I have started using a site called www.paperbackswap.com. You list a few books you are done with and trade with other readers for the price of postage. It's a great alternative to the 1 cent amazon book that actually costs $4 by the time you pay their postage. Just list a few books at first, and be aware that the waiting time for a book can be kind of long. I have gotten about 10 different books so far and am pleased.

Danielle Steele

I don't know why I even bother reading her books.

Big Girl - awful
The Klone and I - not too horrible

Phillip Pullman

The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass

Don't waste your time reading these. There are so many books that are better. I don't think Pullman deserves the hype. The books were boring, unoriginal, and poorly written.

Anna Campbell

Untouched

Mary Kay Andrews

Hissy Fit
Little Bitty Lies

I have actually started going to the library and checking books out (Instead of reading them at hastings).

Eloisa James

Kiss Me Annabel
The Taming of the Duke

I like this author, fun and sexy.

Samantha James

A Perfect Hero
A Perfect Groom

Read both this week at Hastings. Enjoyed them both until the "Garbage Man" came and sat behind me. Eew! He has roaches in his car and I am not even being mean. Emily and i started laughing and had to move.

Lyndsay Sands

Great Vampire stories. A really clever reason that vampires would even exist in todays world. Highly recommended
A Bite to Remember
Single White Vampire
Love Bites
Tall Dark and Hungry
A Quick Bite
A Bite to Remember
Bite me if you can
The Accidental Vampire (one of my favorites-the series was getting a little repetitious)
Vampires are forever
Vampire Interrupted
Skipped several because I got tired of them...
Hungry for you
Skipped a few more
Under a Vampire Moon
Skipped a few more
Vampire Most Wanted (this one was pretty good too, a more interesting lead character, not too much repetition about the vampire origin story and it is finally assumed that you have read previous books)

Cathy Maxwell

I like her books. A fun read.

In the Bed of a Duke
Treasured Vows
The Lady is Tempted
The Marriage Contract

Dan Brown

Digital Fortress - CRAP, TERRIBLE, WORTHLESS

Previously:
The Da Vinci Code - entertaining.

Karen Moning

Tonight I read "Spell of the Highlander". I thought it was funny and sexy. I am not always fond of time travel romance, but this one was well done. I am looking forward to reading more by this author.

I have also read "Beyond the Highland Mist"

Laura Lee Guhrke

She's No Princess - I read the first chapter at Hastings and had to leave. Someone bought it before I could finish it. AAugh!

8/15/06 I found the bood at Borders. I bought it this time. It was pretty good. I look forward to more by this author.

Kylie Adams

First Kiss - Lousy! I hate books like this. The heroine is a shallow idiot who goes on to do great things and screw a handsome jerk. He actually complements her brains but she is stupid enough to think that brand names matter and that she should by an $800 halter top because someone famous said it would be cute on her. What planet do people like this actually live on? I can't believe I managed to muddle through. I even tried to view it as a farce, comedy, or satire with no luck. Just awful.

Tracy Anne Warren

The Wedding Trap
The Wife Trap
The Bachelor Trap

Elizabeth Boyle

Brazen Temptress - My brother refused to check this one out of the library for me and the librarian pretended that she would never read something like a romance novel. I prevailed and got the book which reminded me of a Maureen O'Hara movie. The heroine was even named Maureen although she had a stupid nickname. I hate it when the character has a nickname, especially when it is a name belonging to the opposite sex. It's confusing, I forget who the characters are.

Anne Stuart

The Devil's Waltz

I am enjoying my vacation getting to read and lay around.

Brenda Joyce

The Masquerade

This was the lousiest, tawdriest novel. This book is why people look down on the romance novel. Jerry Springer would have put these people on his show and had a field day. I just don't go for the ate a guy your sister has slept with and had his baby plot. Gross. Reminded me a bit of Tess of the d'Urbervilles but lacked the symbolism and critical view of the victorian era.

Julie Leto

Diry Little Secrets - Latina detective/action story.

Karyn Langhorne

Diary of an Ugly Duckling (Advance Proof) - not my usual reading, but I enjoyed it. Made me tear up several times. I wouldn't have done what Audra did at the end of the book, not after all that work. I'm not sure if I feel like it was an honest ending, or the one I was supposed to want. You will have to read the book if you want to know more, it comes out June 27, 2006.

Lisa Kleypas

8/12/06:

Scandal in Spring - it was pretty good.

Today: I read 2 books from the Wallflowers series after re-reading the first one yesterday. I am looking forward to the "Spring" book due to come out soon.

It Happened One Autumn
The Devil in Winter

Previously
Secrets of a Summer Night
Lady Sophia's Lover
Suddenly You
Stranger in My Arms

Vicki Lewis Thompson

Katie picked this one out for me at Book People in Austin.

Let me say she picked a racy one: alien sex, hovercrafts, and firing pistons. The title, "Talk Nerdy to Me"

I have also read:
Nerd Gone Wild

Bill, standing over my shoulder reading while I type, asked, "Is it the nerd series?" Then he actually giggled.

Madeline Hunter

Well, here it is, the February review for the book challenge.

Title: Lady of Sin
Author: Madeline Hunter
Year Published: 2006
Why did you get this book? I was looking for an entertaining, steamy read by a new author.
Do you like the cover? It's a little cheesy. I don't go for the sex on the cover type books
Did you enjoy the book? It was ok. The plot was predictable and a little unbelievable. I think the ending was a little too neat and happy.
Was the author new to you and would you read something by this author again? Yeah, her writing is good so maybe she has better plots in her other books
Are you keeping it or passing it on? Well, since I read it at Hastings, I am passing it on.
Anything else? I don't recommend this book unless you have nothing else to do.

3/6/06 Lord of Sin was much better than Lady of Sin, I think there is hope for Ms. Hunter and that I will enjoy reading her other books

3/8-15/06
I have now read:
The Sinner
The Saint
The Charmer

I am glad I kept reading this author. She is very entertaining.

5/17/05
The Romantic

Stephanie Laurens

The Truth About Love - I read this at Hastings tonight. It was so nice to take a break and read.

Also:
The Ideal Bride
A Rake's Vow
The Devil's Bride

C. S. Lewis

The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle

The Screwtape Letters

Till We Have Faces - this was the retelling of a Greek Myth. I really enjoyed it.

Eudora Welty

The Optimist's Daughter

Christina Dodd

The Barefoot Princess - read at Hastings tonight.

The Runaway Princess

1/29/05 One Kiss From You

Annette Blair

The Kitchen Witch
Tonight I finished My Favorite Witch. I am looking forward to the next one!

Laurie Notaro

I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies) - True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl
My sister sent me this one, she thought I would like it (I like people, occasionally). It was pretty funny and I recommend it to everyone. I can't wait to read more by this author.

Rachel Gibson

Well, here it is, the January review for the book challenge.

Title: Lola Carlyle Reveals All - When ex-supermodel Lola Carlyle learns that some very--ahem--private photos of herself are being peddled on the internet, she hides out where there’s sun and-she thinks-safety, until the gossip dies out. Then the private yacht she’s blissfully napping on is "commandeered" by some man who says his name is Max Zamora, and that he works for the government.
Author: Rachel Gibson
Year Published: 2002
Why did you get this book? I looked for a cute cover by an author who had several books on the shelf, that way if I liked, I could read more books by this author.
Do you like the cover? Of Course, the polka dot red bikini and the name Lola Carlyle caught my eye immediately.
Did you enjoy the book? Definately. I like the alpha male kind of guys. Being an alpha female, it is fun to lock horns with them.
Was the author new to you and would you read something by this author again? I don't think I have read any of Ms. Gibson's books, but I would definately read one again. This book was almost as exciting as a Clancy novel, but a lot steamier.
Are you keeping it or passing it on? Well, since I read it at Hastings, I am passing it on.
Anything else? The only thing I didn't like about the book was the plot with the drug lord wanting to kill the hero, was never resolved.

Katie Macalister

Today I read: The Trouble with Harry

Michael Shaara

Killer Angels

Voltaire

Candide

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

I have still never seen the entire movie, but the book was great.

Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

George Eliot

Silas Marner
Mill on the Floss

Daphne Du Maurier

Rebecca

The Hitchcock version has a different sort of "crime".

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
A Christmas Carol

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass

John Bunyan

The Pilgrim's Progress - I thought it was tedious.

Laura Esquivel

Like Water for Chocolate

Isabelle Allende

Daughter of Fortune - In spite of being an Oprah's book club book, this book does not leave you a dehydrated, shriveled, miserable wreck. I will definately read more by this author.

Book Challenge

January: Contemporary Romance
February: A book by a new-to-you author
March: Historical Romance
April: A book that's been on your TBR pile longer than 6 months
May: In honor of Memorial Day; War, law enforcement, military type or something similar (even loosely related counts)
June: A book that was recommended by someone you "know" (another blogger, author, friend, family member) or got a lot of buzz and that's why you bought it but it's still on your TBR pile
July: Romantic Suspense
August: A non-romance book, fiction or non-fiction
September: Category Romance
October: Paranormal Romance or Fantasy
November: A book originally published as an e-book (even if you have it in print now)December: A book published prior to 2006
- copied from http://briannasmommy.blogspot.com/2006/01/tbr-challenge-part-two.html

Sabrina Jeffries

To Pleasure a Prince
One Night with a Prince
In the Prince's Bed
Married to the Viscount

Jane Feather

The Least Likely Bride
The Hostage Bride
The Accidental Bride
Almost a Bride
Valentine
The Bride Hunt
The Bachelor List

Mary Balogh

I like this romance author. Interesting, funny, and occasionally tearjerkers.

A Summer to Remeber
Slightly Married
Slightly Sinful
Slightly Wicked
Slightly Scandalous
Slightly Dangerous

More than a Mistress
No Man's Mistress

5/31/06
One Night for Love

Suzanne Enoch

Obviously a romance writer:

An Invitation to Sin

Teresa Medeiros

Lady of Conquest
The Bride and the Beast
One Night of Scandal
Fairest of Them All

L. Frank Baum

The Wizard of Oz
The Land of Oz
Ozma of Oz
Doroth and the Wizard in Oz
The Road to Oz
The EMerald City of Oz
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
TikTok of Oz

There are a few more Oz books but my meager allowance didn't cover the entire series.

Joe Meno

"hairstyles of the damned"

I thought this book was lousy. The cover, however, was cool.

Short Story Collections

A Stocking Full of Joy - Mary Jo Putney, Jill Barnett, Justine Dare, and Susan King

Suzanne MacPherson

She Woke up Married
Switched, Bothered and Bewildered

Jennifer Crusie

To all of you who knock the romance novel, check out Ms. Crusie's bio on her website. She is an intelligent well educated woman and her books reflect that.

Great fiction that shouldn't be relegated to the romance section.

Welcome to Temptation
Bet Me
Fast Women
Crazy for You
Faking It
Tell Me Lies

Thomas B. Costain

The Silver Chalice

Elizabeth Speare

The Bronze Bow
The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Horatio Alger

Andy Grant's Pluck
Brave and Bold

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlett Letter
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
The Great Stone Face
The House of the Seven Gables
Ethan Brand
The Birthmark
Rappacini's Daughter

Jack London

The Call of the Wild
White Fang

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Lord Fauntleroy
A Secret Garden
The Little Princess

John Steinbeck

Apparently I have seen more movies based on Mr. Steinbeck's work than I have actually read. I will have to remedy this.

I have read:
The Pearl

Earnest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

Oscar Wilde

Novel:
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Plays:
An Ideal Husband
The Importance of Being Earnest

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The Arabian Nights - not for the faint hearted.
The story starts with the Persian Shahryar, king of an unnamed island "between India and China" (in modern editions based on Arab transcripts he is king of India and China), who is so shocked by his wife's infidelity that he kills her and, believing all women to be likewise unfaithful, gives his vizier an order to get him a new wife every night (in some versions, every third night). After spending one night with his bride, the king has her executed at dawn. This practice continues for some time, until the vizier's clever daughter Shahrazad (the name is perhaps better-known in English as "Scheherazade" or "Shahrastini", which is a Persian name) forms a plan and volunteers to become Shahrayar's next wife. Every night after their marriage, she spends hours telling him stories, each time stopping at dawn with a cliff-hanger, so the king will postpone the execution out of a desire to hear the rest of the tale. In the end, she has given birth to three sons, and the king has been convinced of her faithfulness and revoked his decree.

Jan Karon

At Home in Mitford
A Light in the Window
These High Green Hills
Out to Canaan

Charlottte Bronte

I read Jane Eyre when I was ten or eleven. I have read it many times since.

Others:
Villette (1853)
The Professor: A Tale (1857)

E. M. Hull

There was this library of old books that the Boy Scouts had donated at a camp in Vermont where I was working as Bible Teacher. I looked at the titles and picked "The Sheik"it turned out to be one of the raciest books I had read at the time.

Clarence E. Mulford

I picked up an old copy of Buck Peters, Ranchman at a garage sale. I started looking for these and reading them as I found them at used book and antique shops. I think it is fun to read an old book from a first or second edition.

Buck Peters, Ranchman
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
The Bar 20 Rides again

Zane Grey

I love his westerns. My great grandfather used to read these out loud to his kids. I have read dozens of them. I am sure there is a bit of a formula behind them since the girl always falls when someone is chasing her, but I still enjoy them, especially since I read for entertainment more often that I read for personal growth. So shallow.

Dean Koontz

Kristin started me on these. I used to listen to them on tape while I was working third shift at Moore.

Life Expectancy
Velocity
The Face
Odd Thomas
From the Corner of His Eye
False memory
Intensity - The first one I read. Absolutely horrible, but I couldn't put it down.
Tick Tock
Seize the Night
Fear Nothing
Sole Survivor

Carl Hiaasen

Sick Puppy

L. M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of the Island
Anne's House of Dreams
Rainbow Valley
Rilla of Ingleside
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne of Ingleside

Johann D. Wyss

Swiss Family Robinson - another one of my favorites

Laura Ingalls Wilder

I really liked these books when I was a kid.

Little House in the Big Woods (1932)
Farmer Boy (1933) - about her husband's childhood on a farm in New York
Little House on the Prairie (1935), a Newbery Honor book
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), a Newbery Honor book
By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939),a Newbery Honor book
The Long Winter (1940), a Newbery Honor book
Little Town on the Prairie (1941), a Newbery Honor book
These Happy Golden Years (1943), a Newbery Honor book
The First Four Years (1971, published posthumously)

Louisa May Alcott

I didn't like Little Women. I think I was too young when I read it and it was just too sad.

I did like:
Jo's Boys
Little Men
Eight Cousins
Rose in Bloom
An Old Fashioned Girl
Under the Lilacs

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I have read all of the Sherlock Holmes stories: A Study in Scarlet 1888, The Sign of Four 1890, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1892, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-headed, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 1894, Silver Blaze, The Yellow Face, The Stock-broker's Clerk, The "Gloria Scott, The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Puzzle, The Crooked Man, The Resident Patient, The Greek Interpreter, The Naval Treaty, The Final Problem, The Hound of the Baskervilles 1902, The Return of Sherlock Holmes 1905, The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Dancing Men, The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, The Adventure of the Priory School, The Adventure of Black Peter, The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, The Adventure of the Three Students, The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, The Adventure of the Second Stain, The Valley of Fear in September 1914, The Valley of Fear 1915, His Last Bow 1917, The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, The Adventure of the Red Circle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Pardington Plans, The Adventure of the Dying Detective, The Disappearance of Lady Francis Carfax, The Adventure of the Devil's Foot, His Last Bow, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone, The Adventure of the Three Gables, The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, The Adventure of the Three Garridebs in January 1925, The Adventure of the Three Garridebs, The Problem of Thor Bridge, The Adventure of the Creeping Man, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane, The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger, The Adventure of Shoscombe Old

Jayne Ann Krentz

Smoke in Mirrors
Soft Focus
Trust Me
Truth or Dare
Lost and Found
Light in Mirrors
Absolutely Positively
Grand Passion
Hidden Talents
The Golden Chance
Flash
Family
Eye of the Beholder
Eclipse Bay

Jayne Castle

Orchid
After Glow
After Dark
Soft Focus

A fun futuristic romance/mystery.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice - my personal favorite
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Emma
Persuasion
Northanger Abby

Gladys Malvern

I used to love to read the book of Esther when the pastor was preaching a dull sermon. I was delighted to find "Behold your Queen" at the library. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about one of my favorite biblical characters in more of a novel format.

John Nance

I always end up buying these at the airport.

Medusa's Child
Pandora's Clock
Headwind

John Grisham

I like Grisham's books, they are easy to read and hard to put down.

A Time to Kill
The Firm
Pelican Brief
The Client
The Chamber
The Rainmaker
The Run Away Jury
The Partner
The Street Lawyer
The Testament
The Brethren
A Painted House - Not a lawyer book.

Tom Clancy

"His head exploded like a melon" seems to happen frequently in a Clancy Novel.
I have read:

Rainbow Six
Patriot Games
Clear and Present Danger

Martha Finley

Trivia: Elsie Dinsmore is mentioned in the B&W movie "The Man Who Came To Dinner"

The Esie Dinsmore series started out pretty good but as she grew up, everything was a bit too moral. I read:
Elsie Dinsmore
Elsie's Holiday
Elsie's Girlhood
Elsie's Womanhood
Elsie's Motherhood
Elsie's Children
Elsie's Widowhood - Once they killed off her husband, I just gave up. I think there are 5 more books in this Series.

I also read part of the Mildred Keith Series.
Mildred Keith
Mildred at Roselands
Mildred and Elsie
Mildred had a lot more spunk than Elsie, not quite so well-behaved.

Piers Anthony

I read The Apprenice Adept Series in highschool, the whole naked modern world kind of freaked me out, I was so conservative. I kept reading them anyway, justifying the nudity because it was Science Fiction.

Split Infinity
Blue Adept
Juxtaposition
Out of Phaze
Robot Adept
Unicorn Point
Phaze Doubt

James Fenmore Cooper

"The Last of the Mohicans"

Of course I cried, it was a great book. I read a first edition copy I found in the basement of the Bucknell Library in Pennsylvania.

E. B. White

Charlotte's Web
Stuart Little
The Trumpeter Swan - often overlooked since it hasn't been made into a movie. My favorite of this author.

Autobiographies

I am a lazy reader, so the list of autobiographies will probably be pretty short. I also can't remember which ones I have read over the years.

Lindy Boggs - "Washington Through a Purple Veil" - I loved the idea that the right clothing gets you anywhere.

"Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan That Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America" by Ronald Reagan, Martin Anderson, Annelise Anderson, and Kiron Skiner

Pearl Buck

I love this author. I read "The Good Earth" when I was about ten. I went back to the public Library and checked out every book they had by Pearl Buck.

I have read:
East Wind, West Wind (1930)
The Good Earth (1931)
Sons (1932)
The Mother (1933)
A House Divided (1935)
Secrets of the Heart (1976)

I know I have read several others, but I can't remember the titles. I loved the rise and fall of power, money, and health over the course of the man's life. The tea leaves floating on the water.

Lemony Snicket

"A Bad Beginning" - I couldn't bear to go on, one of this series was enough. I guess I am just too old to enjoy them. They are written at a low reading level.

Zilpha K. Snyder

"The Egypt Game" - I loved this book.

Samantha Saxon

Tonight at Hastings I read The Lady Killer (cheap paperback romance). It was actually interesting. Our heroine was a murderess who had stabbed her husband multiple times and currently works as an assassine.

J. K. Rowling

Of Course I have read the Harry Potter books. I think they are great. The first one was enchanting. I think book four was a little slow, but the movie was great.

Harry Potter
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997)
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I didn't watch the movies past book four, but I enjoyed all of the books.

Lloyd Alexander

I really liked these books when I was a kid. I still need to read the Vesper Holly Series and try some of his novels. He is prolific!

Chronicles of Prydain
1. The Book of Three (1964)
2. The Black Cauldron (1965)
3. The Castle of Llyr (1966)
4. Taran Wanderer (1967)
5. The High King (1968)

Westmark
1. Westmark (1981)
2. The Kestrel (1982)
3. The Beggar Queen (1984)

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Ubervilles - 1891

I hated this book. It was awful. The ending was atrocious. I am sure I cried.

Supposedly this book was written as a comment on English society. Maybe if I re-read it after reading a commentary explaining the book I would like it better.

Amanda Quick

I love this writer of naughty regency romances. They usual involve a mystery revolving around "dark arts" and mysterious secret societies. The heroine is almost always a virgin who is overwhelmed by the dark and misunderstood hero. Always a happy ending. Great Stuff!

I have read:

Seduction, Surrender, Rendezvous, Scandal, Ravished, Reckless, Dangerous, Deception, Desire, Mistress, Mystique, Mischief, Affair, With This Ring, I Thee Wed, Wicked Widow, Slightly Shady, Don't Look Back, The Paid Companion, Lie By Moonlight, Wait Until Midnight.

As you can tell by the titles, this is hot and heavy stuff.

Joan Aiken

I love Joan Aiken, she predates J.K. Rowling, and has a great children's series that would be fun to see on a movie screen.


1. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962)
2. Black Hearts in Battersea (1964)
3. Nightbirds on Nantucket (1966)
4. The Whispering Mountain (1968)
5. The Cuckoo Tree (1971)
6. Midnight Is a Place (1974)
7. The Stolen Lake (1981)
8. Dido and Pa (1986)

Apparently there are 5 more new books in this series that I haven't read yet. I will let you know how I like them.