…there are the books that didn’t change my life but which I loved so much that I read them over and over and over when I was growing up. Some of them are still my comfort books.
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Elswyth Thane
Dawn’s Early Light
Yankee Stranger
Ever After
The Light Heart
Kissing Cousins
This Was Tomorrow
Homing
Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
My Cousin Rachel
Mary Stewart
Madam, Will You Talk
Wildfire at Midnight
Thunder on the Right
Nine Coaches Waiting
My Brother Michael
The Ivy Tree
The Moon-Spinners
This Rough Magic
Airs Above the Ground
The Gabriel Hounds
Touch Not the Cat
Georgette Heyer
any of her regency romances
Francis and Richard Lockridge
any of their murder mysteries
Agatha Christie
any of her murder mysteries
Mignon Eberhart
any of her murder mysteries
Mary O’Hara
My Friend Flicka
Thunderhead
Green Grass of Wyoming
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Little Men
Taylor Caldwell
Melissa
Margaret Mitchell
Gone With The Wind
E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Great Impersonation
Edna Ferber
Saratoga Trunk
Phyllis A. Whitney
The Winter People
Victoria Holt
Mistress of Mellyn
Bride of Pendorric
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I love Phyllis Whitney! Victoria Holt too … my favorite Victoria Holt book is THE JUDAS KISS
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Wrong. The best Victoria Holt is On the Night of the Seventh Moon.
My God Beck, we love the same books. My favorite Phyllis Whitney is Listen for the Whisperer.
AND every single thing Mary Stewart wrote rocks. I just reread The Ivy Tree a while back–LOVED it. It had been so long the surprise twist got me again…now THAT’s talent.
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Oh yeah, I remember watching JEOPARDY once with a bunch of people, and the answer was The trademark of the Lippizan stallions and I said, “What are airs above the ground?” and when it was right, everyone was astounded…I just shrugged and said, “I read Mary Stewart.”
Re: V
I love, love, love that book! Didn’t you just want to cry when she first realized the truth about the old horse?
Plus her husband was hot.
Re: V
Okay, that is a good one — but the best is JUDAS KISS … how can you not love poop Pippa … and the cover, well I never saw a blond man look so handsome. I am sure that it helped that I was 13 and in Germany when I read it.
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No, no, Victoria Holt’s Bride of Pendorric!
You are right about Mary Stewart, though. There’s not a one of those that I wouldn’t read again right now, and love it just as much.
thats POOR Pippa … because i think it would be very easy to dislike Poop Pippa