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Totally cheating and using the responses I posted from four years ago. Pretty much the responses would be the same. Nearly half of my book are children's books. I think when we are young our imagination is captured far more easily and, plain and simple, there are just brilliant chlidren's books out there to be discovered and read.

I won't tag anyone - if you would like to do it, please do!

1. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Time Travel, History, Romance it has it all

2. To the Hilt by Dick Francis. I love Dick Francis, and this is pretty high on my favorite list by him

3. My Side of the Mountain by Elizabeth Craighead George. Loved the thought of a boy striking out on his own and his parents letting him.

4. Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankwiler by I Forget Who. Again, kids going out on their own and solving a mystery to boot.

5. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Sometimes the answer to the most complex question is the simplest one.

6. Six Days of the Condor by Grady (?) A man, a reader for the CIA, goes out to pick up lunch for the office he comes back and everyone is dead. Start to a really bad day.

7. Little House Books, I've read them and read them.

8. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes. Would that I could buy a vacation home in Tuscany and renovate it

9. Little Princess (followed and probably tied with) & Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (requirement: editions read must be illustrated by Tasha Tudor)

10. Harry Potter series, adventure, romance, good vs evil. - really pretty obvious.

11. Folly by Laurie King.Her writing is all excellent, but this one excels. A woman (carpenter) tormented by her own mental health seeks to rebuild her uncle's destroyed house in the San Juan islands. I was listening to this one while driving to Springfield and actually drove an extra hour around just to hear more of it. If you can get the audio all the better

12. Giver by Lois Lowry. Alternate history, a boy seeking a different future for himself

13. Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle. Loved it

14. Face on the Milk Carton by Carolyn Cooney. One day a girl in a cafeteria looks at her milk carton and realizes the little girl who is missing is a picture of her from 12 years before when she was a toddler. This one just captivated me by all the "what ifs"

15. Prince of Peace by James Carroll - two friends torn apart by love and war