a few of my favorite things

Daenerys, the Mother of Bearded Dragons
icy-water filled matryoshka Starbucks cup, which doesn't spill and doesn't sweat, from my dear little friend Andrew
knitting, Pretty Basic, by Janina Kallio
Tucson monsoon thunderstorm flashing and rumbling across the sky

Life doesn't get much better than this.

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The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
Pines by Blake Crouch
Wayward by Blake Crouch
The Last Town by Blake Crouch
The Terranauts by T.C. Boyle
Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavitz
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer
The Lake House by Kate Morton
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt
Tiny Little Thing by Beatriz Williams
A God In Ruins by Kate Atkinson
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive DIsorder by Fletcher Wortmann
Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
Child 44 by Todd Rob Smith
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
Eden Close by Anita Shreve
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler
A Woman's Guide to s a Simpler Life by Andrea Van steenhouse, Ph.D.
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels by Jay Dobyns
48 Days to the Work You Love by Dan Miller
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
Raising Boys without Men by Peggy Drexler, Ph.D.
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
The Devlin Diary by Christi Phillips
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
The Shack by William P. Young
Damage Control by J. A. Jance
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
Spider by Patrick McGrath
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
And Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Key-Lock Man by Loius L'Amour
Drunk with Love by Ellen Gilchrist
Clara's Kitchen by Clara Cannucciari
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst
The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Day of the Dead by J.A. Jance
Paradise Lost by J.A. Jance
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Kissing the Virgin's Mouth by Donna M. Gershten
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Strider by Beverly Cleary
Waking Up in the Land of Glitter by Kathy Cano-Murillo
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
My Life in France by Julia Child, with Alex Prud'Homme
in search of snow by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Horrible Little People by Eric M. Esquivel and Dave Baker
Lizzie by Evan Hunter
The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld
Through a Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen
Lavinia by Ursula K. LeGuin
Dune by Frank Herbert
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jonathan Krakauer
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Outlaw Mountain by J.A. Jance
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson
The Men and the Girls by Joanna Trollope
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Cookcamp by Gary Paulsen
World without End by Ken Follett
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
My Darling, My Hamburger by Paul Zindel
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemerovsky
The Year Seven by Molleen Zanger
The Last Monster by Jane and Paul Annixter
Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemerovsky
A Candle for Saint Jude by Rumer Godden
The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
The Train to Estelline by Jane Roberts Wood
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Charms for an Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
Changing Planes by Ursula K. LeGuin
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Cuckoo Tree by Joan Aiken
Mr. Muo's Traveling Couch by Dai Sijie
Dead Wrong by J.A. Jance
The Virgin's Lover by Phillipa Gregory
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Tehanu by Ursula K. LeGuin
bel canto by Ann Patchett
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Devil's Advocate by Morris L. West
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
Lambs of God by Marele Day

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