BOOKS I HAVE READ
I wish I had a list of every book I have ever read. I don't always have a book in my
face, but I have read many, many novels over the last 40 years. I have been reading
novels since I was about 11. I have always loved going to the library and when my
children were small, we always joined the Library's Summer Reading Program. I
have made up a list here of some of my favorites. Most I still have. Many of the books
I have read have been from the library, so I will have to go there and refresh my memory.
JOHANNA LINDSEY
1. The Present
2. Home for the Holidays
LAVYRLE SPENCER
1. That Camden Summer *****
2. November of the Heart ***
3. Small Town Girl ****
4. Then Came Heaven*****+
a. In my opinion, (4) it's one of Spencer's best. A shame she has retired.
5. Bygones ***
BELVA PLAIN
1. Random Winds *****
2. Evergreen *****+
3. Whispers *****
Colleen McCullough
1. The Thornbirds
NANCY CATO
ALL THE RIVERS RUN
This is just about the best book I have ever read in my life *****+
JANETTE OKE
1. Too Long a Stranger *
- - - - -This book was not bad, but it really bothered me how it all could turn out o.k.
The child was sent away to boarding school at 6 and didn't come home til
she was 16 or 17. The mother was a young widow and thought she was doing
the best she could for her daughter by working hard and paying for her school.
It just didn't sit right with me. The child was plainly neglected and didn't know
her Mother, neighbors or her home. She stayed with a school mate on vacations
and in summer. They were well to do, and the girl got very snobbish. I didn't like it.
2. Julia's Last Hope ****
3. The Measure of a Heart ****
FRED MUSTARD STEWART
1. Ellis Island
FRANCINE RIVERS
Leota's Garden *****+
SUSAN HOWATCH
a long time favorite of mine. She keeps you spellbound and on the edge.
1. Wheel of Fortune I and II *****
2. Penmarric ****
3. Cashelmara *****
JESSAMYN WEST
1. Except for Me and Thee ****
Awesome tale of a Pioneer Quaker family. Romance, courting, hardships, &
so much more. This is a very good book, worth reading more than once.
This has to be the most phenomenal Family Saga that I have ever read.
Hibbert, writing as Philippa Carr (aka Victoria Holt) wrote this family saga
which was set beginning in the 15th century, England. Taking you through many
generations, wars, eras, it's just a really fantastic journey through time.
The Saga written by PHILIPPA CARR aka VICTORIA HOLT *****+
1. The Miracle at St. Bruno's
2. The Lion Triumphant
3. The Witch from the Sea
4. Saraband for two Sisters
5. Lament for a Lost Lover
6. The Love Child
7. Song of the Siren
8. Will You Love me in September?
9. The Adultress
10. Knave of Hearts
11. Voices in a Haunted Room
12. The Return of the Gypsy
13. Midsummer's Eve
14. The Pool at St. Branok
15. The Changeling
16. The Black Swan
17. A TIme for Silence
18. The Gossamer Cord
19. We'll Meet Again
These are books I have read byVICTORIA HOLT
1. Mistress of Mellyn
2. Bride of Pendorric
3. The Legend of the Seventh Virgin
4. The Shivering Sands
5. The Shadow of the Lynx
6. On the Night of the Seventh Moon
7. The House of a Thousand Lanterns
8. Lord of the Far Island
9. The Mask of the Enchantress
10. Time of the Hunter's Moon
11. The Spring of the Tiger
B.J. CONNER
Roses are Deceiving
JOHN GRISHAM
1. A Painted House ***
I just finished reading this. It is the first Grisham novel I have read. I
found it hard to get into at first, then I couldn't put it down. It is a bit
different from what I am used of reading, but I would recommend it.
LONNIE COLEMAN
Really good saga ****
1. Beulah Land
2. Look Away Beulah Land
3. The Legacy of Beulah Land
PHYLLIS WHITNEY
1. Poinciana
2. Snowfire
JAN KARON
The Mitford Series
FERN MICHAELS
1. The Nosy Neighbor
BODIE & BROCK THOENE
1. Only the Rivers Run Free ***
NORA ROBERTS
1. Carolina Moon
2. Montana Sky
3. Summer Pleasures
Robert Heinlein
1. Stranger From a Strange Land
SANDRA BROWN
1. Charade
SOPHIE KINSELLA
1. The Undomestic Goddess
MADGE SWINDELLS
1. Summer Harvest ****
RED HAT SOCIETY AUTHORS>
1. The Queens of Woodlawn Avenue (Regina Hale Sutherland)
2. Acting Their Age (Regina Hale Sutherland)
PRISCILLA NAPIER
1. Imperial Winds ****
Here is the breathtaking story of the coming of womanhood and the fall
of an empire. In 1914, feeling stifled by her family and rejected by
the man she loves, Daisy Pelham travels to Imperial Russia to care
for the children of the noble Dubelsky family. Among the family are two
sons as handsome as they are different: Misha is blond and arrogant;
Kolya is dark, musical and sensitive. In Moscow, life for Daisy is a time
of delicious flirtations, dinner parties and balls at which she becomes
the darling of the aristocracy. And yet Daisy is troubled by the discrepency
between that wealth and the abject poverty she occasionally catches a
glimpse of. Then World War I engulfs Europe: the Romanovs are toppled;
terror and madness reign. Daisy must shepherd the children to the safety
of the Dubelsky country home on the Black Sea. And she mustsuffer through
the death of one man she loves, and the long and painful absence of another,
before she can be a strong and independent woman-and find the man she
loved all along. **** (My personal opinion follows the blurp.)
Imperial Winds is a book I purchased at either a garage sale, or
at a library book sale. Either way, it looked interesting to me at
the time. But, for some reason, I never read it for a long time.
Then, I picked it up and started reading it, immediately becoming
involved and engrossed with this story. I haven't ever before read
anything else by Priscilla Napier, and haven't really looked for more.
But, this story is a wonderful Historical fiction. I am sure others are also.
If you can find this book at the library, or from an online book vender, and this is your kind of reading,
by all means, get it! I highly recommend this book. Very interesting.
ELIZABETH PETERS
1. The Camelot Caper
SUSAN S. JAMES
1. The Belles of Solace Glen
KIMBERLY COMEAUX
Texas Belles
JUNE SHAW
Relative Danger ****
ROBIN GUNN
Sister Chicks do the Hula
CHRISTA PARRISH
Home Another Way
RACHEL ANN NUNES
This Time Forever
These are books from the HEARTWARMING INSPIRATIONAL ROMANCE series
1. A Hero For Dry Creek--by Janet Tronstad
2. Summer's Promise--by Irene Brand
3. An Honest Life--by Dana Corbit
4. Healing Hearts--by Cheryl Wolverton
Today is 4-17-2017. These are books I have read over the last few years, either
in paper, on the NOOK reader or on my iPad.
Rosemary's Gravy by Melissa F. Miller
The Gray and Guilty Sea by Scott W. Carter
Summer at Sea by Beth Labonte
Remembering Dresden by Dan Walsh
Ghostly Paws by Leighann Dobbs
I have read a few DEAN KOONTZ novels. I don't read him anymore. It's personal.
they all belonged to my brother. I am not good at remembering names of books.
If I don't have them here, I find it difficult to remember the titles.
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