Books that have made a difference in my life.
How many do you know and love?

A
The Moon’s Revenge – Joan Aiken, ill. Alan Lee
The Trial of Anna Cotman – Vivian Alcock
Paula – Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
Andersen’s Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
Go Ask Alice – Anonymous
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen

B
The Dark Corridor – Jay Bennett
Tales of Green Hedges – Enid Blyton
Family Outing – Chastity Bono
Piggle – Crosby Bonsall
Night of the Wolf – Alice Borchardt
The Dragon Queen - Alice Borchardt
The Raven Warrior - Alice Borchardt
The Children of Green Knowe – L.M. Boston
She’s Not There – Jennifer Finney Boylan
The October Country – Ray Bradbury
The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Forests of Avalon (The Forest House) – Marion Zimmer Bradley
Father of Frankenstein – Christopher Bram
A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

C
The Ring-Givers – W.H. Canaway
Obernewtyn – Isobelle Carmody
A Cage of Butterflies – Brian Caswell
Dreamslip – Brian Caswell
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper – Harriet Scott Chessman
As Nature Made Him – John Colapinto
Collins English Gem
Squeakers – Stephen Cosgrove, ill. Robin James
The Gift – Alison Croggon
The Secrets of Sarah Byrnes – Chris Crutcher
Book of Shadows – Phyllis Curott

D
Fantastic Mr Fox – Roald Dahl, ill. Jill Bennett
Matilda – Roald Dahl
Tell Me I’m Here – Anne Deveson
Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain – Reader’s Digest
The Talisman – Cameron Dokey
BattleAxe - Sara Douglass
Enchanter - Sara Douglass
Starman - Sara Douglass

E
There’s a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake – Hazel Edwards, ill. Deborah Niland
Women Who Run With Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

F
Magician – Raymond E. Feist
Daughter of the Empire – Raymond E. Feist, Janny Wurts
Left, Right and Centre – Tim Ferguson
Father and Me – Eamonn Flanagan
The Bone Doll’s Twin – Lynn Flewelling
Hidden Warrior – Lynn Flewelling
Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
Mister God This is Anna – Fynn

G
Where Does the Butterfly Go When it Rains? – May Garelick, ill. Leonard Weisgard (original blue and white version)
The Wierdstone of Brisingamen – Alan Garner
The Moon at Gomrath – Alan Garner
The Princess Bride – William Goldman

H
The Silent Shore – Ruth Elwin Harris
The Beckoning Hills - Ruth Elwin Harris
The Dividing Sea – Ruth Elwin Harris
Beyond the Orchid House - Ruth Elwin Harris
Into the Forest – Jean Hegland
Ship of Magic - Robin Hobb
The Mad Ship - Robin Hobb
Ship of Destiny - Robin Hobb
I Am David – Anne Holm
The Crystal Drop – Monica Hughes
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

J
Collected Ghost Stories – M.R. James
The Juniper Game – Sherryl Jordan

K
Daggerspell - Katharine Kerr
The Red Wyvern - Katharine Kerr
Snare - Katharine Kerr
The Shimmering Door – ed. Katherine Kerr
Del Del – Victor Kelleher
Taronga – Victor Kelleher
People Might Hear You – Robin Klein

L
Blackbird – Jennifer Lauck
Life Behind Glass: A Personal Account of Autism Spectrum Disorder – Wendy Lawson
The Voyage of the Dawntreader – C.S. Lewis
Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank – Willy Lindwer

M
Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
The Changeover – Margaret Mahy
Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier
Son of the Shadows - Juliet Marillier
Child of the Prophecy - Juliet Marillier
Letters from the Inside – John Marsden
Boys Like Us – Peter McGee
Beauty – Robin McKinley
Deerskin – Robin McKinley
The Hero and the Crown – Robin McKinley
Mandragora – David McRobbie
This Book Is Haunted – David McRobbie
The Source – James A. Michener
Secrets Not Meant to be Kept – Gloria D. Miklowitz
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
Myst: The Book of Atrus – Robyn Miller, Rand Miller, David Wingrove
The Man from Snowy River – Elyne Mitchell
Emily of New Moon – L.M. Montgomery
The White Crane – Junko Morimoto
Silver Woven in her Hair – Shirley Rousseau Murphy

N
Abhorsen – Garth Nix
Lirael – Garth Nix
Sabriel – Garth Nix

O
The Silver Crown – Robert O’Brien

P
Heroes in Disguise – Linda Pastan
A Child Called It – Dave Pelzer
The Magic Daughter – Jane Phillips
The Key and the Fountain – John Pinkney

R
Gas Smells Awful – Helen Razer
Spirit Fox – Mickey Zucker Reichert, Jennifer Wingert
The Witching Hour – Anne Rice
The Getting of Wisdom – Henry Handel Richardson
I Was There – Hans Peter Richter
Still She Haunts Me – Katie Roiphe
Grim Pickings – Jennifer Rowe
Galax-Arena – Gillian Rubinstein

S
Emer’s Ghost – Catharine Sefton
Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
Inside Out – Erin Shale
Footsteps in an Empty Room – Lilly Sommers
The Boy Who Was Afraid – Armstrong Sperry
The Crystal Cave – Mary Stewart
The Hollow Hills – Mary Stewart
The Last Enchantment – Mary Stewart
The Wicked Day – Mary Stewart
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard
The Seventh Princess – Nick Sullivan

T
When Rabbit Howls – The Troops for Truddi Chase
The Hobbit – J.R.R.Tolkien
The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain

V
The Children’s House of Belsen – Hetty. E. Verolme
Homecoming – Cynthia Voigt
When She Hollers – Cynthia Voigt

W
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
Nobody Nowhere – Donna Williams
The Hero – Patricia Windsor
Wonders of the Past, Vol.2. circa 1925
Shadows of Time – Patricia Wrightson
To Ride Hell’s Chasm – Janny Wurts
The Chrysalids – John Wyndham

List begun 3rd June 2004.