{"id":289,"date":"2012-08-13T18:29:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T22:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?page_id=289"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:56:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:56:57","slug":"favorite-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?page_id=289","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Favorite Books, By Author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Douglas Adams:<\/strong> <em>The Deeper Meaning of Liff<\/em>; <em>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em> series<\/li>\n<li><strong>Richard Adams:<\/strong> <em>Watership Down<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>K. A. Applegate:<\/strong> <em>Animorphs<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alison Bechdel: <\/strong><em>Fun Home; Are You My Mother?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Francesca Lia Block:<\/strong> <em>Dangerous Angels<\/em>; <em>Ecstasia<\/em>; <em>Girl Goddess #9<\/em>; <em>Necklace of Kisses<\/em>; <em>Primavera<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vanna Bonta:<\/strong> <em>Flight<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ann Brashares:<\/strong> <em>The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants<\/em> series<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charlotte Bront\u00eb:<\/strong> <em>Jane Eyre<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Emily Bront\u00eb:<\/strong> <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Octavia E. Butler:<\/strong> <em>Earthseed<\/em> books; <em>Patternist<\/em> series; <em>Xenogenesis<\/em> series<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>C<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stephen Chbosky:<\/strong> <em>The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Eoin Colfer:<\/strong> <em>Artemis Fowl<\/em> series<\/li>\n<li><strong>Suzanne Collins:<\/strong> <em>The Hunger Games<\/em> series<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scott Cunningham:<\/strong> <em>Cunningham&#8217;s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs<\/em>; <em>Living Wicca<\/em>; <em>The Truth About Witchcraft Today<\/em>; <em>Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>D<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Roald Dahl:<\/strong> <em>James and the Giant Peach<\/em>; <em>Matilda<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Diane Duane:<\/strong> <em>Young Wizards<\/em> series<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lois Duncan:<\/strong> <em>A Gift of Magic<\/em>; <em>Stranger with My Face<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Katherine Dunn:<\/strong> <em>Geek Love<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>E<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Garth Ennis:<\/strong> <em>Preacher<\/em> graphic novels<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jeffrey Eugenides:<\/strong> <em>Middlesex<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>F<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>J.C. Fann: <\/strong>The <em>Queenschair<\/em> series<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Frauenfelder, Carla Sinclair and Gareth Branwyn:<\/strong> <em>The Happy Mutant Handbook<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Usamaru Furuya:<\/strong> <em>Short Cuts<\/em> manga<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>G<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Steven Gould:<\/strong> <em>Jumper<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>H<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shannon Hale:<\/strong> <em>Book of a Thousand Days<\/em>; <em>The Books of Bayern<\/em> series; <em>Princess Academy<\/em> series; <em>The Actor and the Housewife<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alex Haley:<\/strong> <em>Roots<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pete Hautman:<\/strong> <em>Godless<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Stephen Hawking:<\/strong> <em>A Brief History of Time<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Joseph Heller:<\/strong> <em>Catch-22<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Carl Hiaasen:<\/strong> <em>Skinny Dip<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Eva Ibbotson:<\/strong> <em>Which Witch?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Riichiro Inagaki and Yusuke Murata:<\/strong> <em>Eyeshield 21<\/em> manga<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>K<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ken Kesey:<\/strong> <em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Daniel Keyes:<\/strong> <em>Flowers for Algernon<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sue Monk Kidd:<\/strong> <em>The Secret Life of Bees<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Stephen King:<\/strong> <em>Carrie<\/em>; <em>The Dark Tower<\/em> series; <em>Firestarter<\/em>; <em>On Writing<\/em>; <em>The Shining<\/em>; <em>The Stand<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Barbara Kingsolver:<\/strong> <em>The Poisonwood Bible<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>John Knowles:<\/strong> <em>A Separate Peace<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nancy Kress:<\/strong> <em>Beggars in Spain<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>L<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wally Lamb:<\/strong> <em>I Know This Much Is True<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Gail Carson Levine:<\/strong> <em>Ella Enchanted<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>David Levithan:<\/strong> <em>Boy Meets Boy<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>M<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gregory Maguire:<\/strong> <em>Wicked<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Yann Martel:<\/strong> <em>Life of Pi<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>George R.R. Martin:<\/strong> <em>Wild Cards<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Edain McCoy:<\/strong> <em>The Sabbats<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Eloise McGraw:<\/strong> <em>The Moorchild<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Keith Miller:<\/strong> <em>The Book of Flying<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Christopher Moore:<\/strong> <em>Bloodsucking Fiends<\/em>, <em>Lamb<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jaclyn Moriarty:<\/strong> <em>The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>N<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Novak:<\/strong> <em>How to Meditate<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>P<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chuck Palahniuk:<\/strong> <em>Choke<\/em>; <em>Fight Club<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Julie Anne Peters:<\/strong> <em>Between Mom and Jo<\/em>; <em>Far from Xanadu<\/em>; <em>Keeping You a Secret<\/em>; <em>Luna<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rodman Philbrick:<\/strong> <em>Freak the Mighty<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dav Pilkey:<\/strong> <em>Captain Underpants<\/em> series<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daniel Pinkwater:<\/strong> <em>Young Adult Novel<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Philip Pullman:<\/strong> <em>His Dark Materials<\/em> series<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>R<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wilson Rawls:<\/strong> <em>Where the Red Fern Grows<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Louise Rennison:<\/strong> <em>Confessions of Georgia Nicolson<\/em> series<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mike Resnick:<\/strong> <em>Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Spider Robinson:<\/strong> <em>The Callahan Chronicals<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Satran:<\/strong> <em>Beyond Jennifer &amp; Jason<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rainbow Rowell: <\/strong><em>Eleanor &amp; Park; Fangirl<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>S<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Louis Sachar:<\/strong> <em>The Cardturner; <\/em><em>Holes<\/em>; <em>Sixth Grade Secrets<\/em>; <em>There&#8217;s a Boy in the Girls&#8217; Bathroom<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>J.D. Salinger:<\/strong> <em>Catcher in the Rye<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>R.A. Salvatore:<\/strong> <em>Dark Elf<\/em> trilogy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pamela Redmond Satran &amp; Linda Rosenkrantz:<\/strong> <em>Cool Names for Babies<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Eric Schlosser:<\/strong> <em>Fast Food Nation<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>William Shakespeare:<\/strong> <em>Hamlet<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Shel Silverstein:<\/strong> <em>The Missing Piece Meets the Big O<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dan Simmons:<\/strong> <em>The Hollow Man<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>William Sleator:<\/strong> <em>The Boy Who Reversed Himself<\/em>; <em>Interstellar Pig<\/em>; <em>Singularity<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew Smith: <\/strong><em>100 Sideways Miles; Grasshopper Jungle<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lemony Snicket:<\/strong> <em>A Series of Unfortunate Events<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jerry Spinelli:<\/strong> <em>Milkweed<\/em>; <em>Stargirl<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ivan Stang:<\/strong> <em>The Book of the SubGenius<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Stoppard:<\/strong> <em>Rosencrantz &amp; Guildenstern are Dead<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>T<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Patricia Telesco:<\/strong> <em>A Kitchen Witch&#8217;s Cookbook<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>J.R.R. Tolkien:<\/strong> <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> series<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lynne Truss:<\/strong> <em>Eats, Shoots &amp; Leaves<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>V<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jhonen Vasquez:<\/strong> <em>Squee<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Joan D. Vinge:<\/strong> <em>Cat<\/em> series<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>W<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rebecca Wells:<\/strong> <em>Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Edith Wharton:<\/strong> <em>Ethan Frome<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Elie Wiesel:<\/strong> <em>Night<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>G. Clifton Wisler:<\/strong> <em>Antrian<\/em> series<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Z<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Timothy Zahn:<\/strong> <em>A Coming of Age<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Zindel:<\/strong> <em>The Pigman<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Favorite Books, By Author: A Douglas Adams: The Deeper Meaning of Liff; The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy series Richard Adams: Watership Down K. A. Applegate: Animorphs B Alison Bechdel: Fun Home; Are You My Mother? Francesca Lia Block: Dangerous Angels; Ecstasia; Girl Goddess #9; Necklace of Kisses; Primavera Vanna Bonta: Flight Ann Brashares: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":251,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-289","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4150,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions\/4150"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}