Favorite Books

Welcome to my virtual bookcase. I enjoy reading classics and contemporary novels, from the gothic horror of Mary Shelley's, Frankenstein, and Bram Stoker's, Dracula, to the modern master of terror Stephen King. I also enjoyed Anne Rice's novels about vampires, and the Mayfair Family of witches, and Mario Puzo's story of the Corleone Family of gangsters in The Godfather. I think Larry McMurtry's novel Lonesome Dove is the best western novel ever written, but others like Josey Wales, and The Shootist are great too. If you love the southwest, you've got to read Desert Solitaire by counter culture environmentalist Edward Abbey, and then read The Monkey Wrench Gang. For great short stories of classic horror, read Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood, and Don't Look Now: Selected Stories of Daphne du Maurier. She wrote The Birds, the basis for the Alfred Hitchcok film.The following are my most memorable books.

To Kill a Mockingbird - by Harper Lee
Frankenstein - by Mary Shelley
Dracula - by Bram Stoker
Cannery Row - by John Steinbeck
In Cold Blood - by Truman Capote
The Jungle - by Upton Sinclair
Slaughterhouse Five - by Kurt Vonnegut
The Godfather - by Mario Puzo
The Illustrated Man - by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 - by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles - by Ray Bradbury
Lost Moon - by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
Carrying the Fire - by Michael Collins
Roots - by Alex Haley
Lonesome Dove - by Larry McMurtry

Comanche Moon - by Larry McMurtry
The Last Picture Show - by Larry McMurtry

True Grit - by Charles Portis

Hondo - by Louis L'Amour

Shane - by Jack Schaefer

The Big Clock - by Kenneth Fearing
Desert Solitaire - by Edward Abbey
The Brave Cowboy - by Edward Abbey
The Monkey Wrench Gang - by Edward Abbey
I am Legend - by Richard Matheson
Night of the Hunter - by Davis Grubb
Lost Horizon - by James Hilton

The Circus of Dr. Lao - by Charles G. Finney
On the Beach - by Nevil Shute
The Road - by Cormac McCarthy
The Conjure Wife - by Fritz Leiber
All the Presidents Men - Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward

Prince of the City - Robert Daly  
With the Old Breed - by Eugene Sledge
All Quiet on the Western Front - by Erich Maria Remarque
Night - by Elie Wiesel
The Island of Dr. Moreau - by H.G. Wells
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
Don't Look Now - by Daphne Du Maurier

The Auctioneer - by Joan Samson

11/22/63 - by Stephen King

The Stand - by Stephen King
The Shining - by Stephen King
The Green Mile - by Stephen King

'Salem's Lot - by Stephen King  
Interview With a Vampire - by Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat - by Anne Rice
The Queen of the Damned - by Anne Rice
The Tale of the Body Thief - by Anne Rice
The Witching Hour - by Anne Rice
Lasher - by Anne Rice
Taltos - by Anne Rice

The 39 Steps - by John Buchnan
Josey Wales: Two Westerns - by Forrest Carter
The Shootist - by Glendon Swarthout
The Big Sky - by A.B. Guthrie
City of Thieves - by David Benioff
Spirit of Saint Louis - by Charles Lindbergh
Wind, Sand, and Stars - by Antoine de Saint - Exup'ery 
Into the Wild - by Jon Krakauer
Albatross - Deborah Scaling Kiley
Murder on the Orient Express - by Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None - by Agatha Christie
I am the Blues - by Willie Dixon, Don Snowdon
The World Don't Owe Me Nothing - by David "Honeyboy" Edwards
Just Kids - by Patti Smith
The Secret Life of the Grown Up Brain - by Barbara Strauch
The Midwich Cuckoos - by John Wyndham
Kabloona: Among the Inuit - by Gontran de Poncins
The Lost World - by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Salvation on Sand Mountain - by Dennis Covington

Zombie Illinois - by Scott Kenemore
The New Centurions - by Joseph Wambaugh
The Glitter Dome - by Joseph Wambaugh
The Black Marble - by Joseph Wambaugh
Wild - by Cheryl Strayed

The Mafia Princess - by Antoinette Giancana