Rachel's Book List

Hm! I just realized that I've never actually made a real list of the kind of books I usually read, many of which I would definitely recommend to anyone else who loves good literature. I need to make such a list right now, I think, even though it's 11:39 at night, and I'm very tired from jogging two miles with my mom on the Oakley Elementary race track a bit earlier this evening. The books in this list of mine are marked in no particular order. I recommend every single one of these stories for great reads, and I really don't think that any one of them is any better or worse than the last.

1.) The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
2.) The House With the Blind Glass Windows, by Herbjorg Wassmo
3.) Dina's Book, by Herbjorg Wassmo
4.) The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
5.) The Kin, by Peter Dickinson and Ian Andrew
6.) The Clan of the Cave Bear, by Jean M. Auel
7.) The Kalevala: Or Poems of the Kaleva District, by Elias Lonnrot and Jr. Francis Peabody Magoun
8.) Faeries, by Brian Froud and Alan Lee
9.) Spirit Fox, by Mickey Zucker Reichert and Jennifer Wingert
10.) Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry
11.) The Giver, by Lois Lowry
12.) The Moorchild, by Eloise McGraw
13.) This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn, by Aidan Chambers
14.) Fudoki, by Kij Johnson
15.) The Alchemist, by Paul Coelho
16.) White Oleander, by Janet Fitch
17.) Tideland, by Mitch Cullin
18.) Bones of the Moon, by Jonathan Carroll
19.) A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly
20.) Shiva's Fire, by Suzanne Fisher Staples
21.) The Rice Mother, by Rani Manicka
22.) Born Confused, by Tanuja Desai Hidier
23.) Homeless Bird, by Gloria Whelan
24.) The His Dark Materials Trilogy, by Philip Pullman
25.) Witch Child, by Celia Rees
26.) Guardian of the Balance, by Irene Radford
27.) Matilda Bone, by Karen Cushman
28.) Widdershins, by Charles de Lint
29.) Waifs and Strays, by Charles de Lint
30.) Moonlight and Vines, by Charles de Lint
31.) Spirits in the Wires, by Charles de Lint
32.) The Blue Girl, by Charles de Lint
33.) Greenmantle, by Charles de Lint
34.) Dreams Underfoot: A Newford Collection, by Charles de Lint
35.) The Onion Girl, by Charles de Lint
36.) A Taxonomy of Barnacles, by Galt Niederhoffer
37.) Jerusalem, by Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof
38.) The Thin Place, by Kathryn Davis
39.) The Midwife's Apprentice, by Karen Cushman
40.) Troll: A Love Story, by Johanna Sinisalo
41.) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
42.) Mister God, This is Anna, by "Fynn", Rowan Williams and "Papas"
43.) The Frozen Waterfall, by Gaye Hicyilmaz
44.) The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
45.) The Wind on Fire Trilogy, by William Nicholson
46.) Coraline, by Neil Gaiman

Children's Books:

1.) Witch Watch, by Gillian McLure
2.) One Wintry Night, by Ruth Bell Graham
3.) The Rag Coat, by Lauren A. Mills
4.) The Surprise in the Wardrobe, by Val Willis and John Shelley
5.) Pumpkin Moonshine, by Tasha Tudor
6.) Astrid Lindgren Books
7.) Elsa Beskow Books
8.) The Story of the Root-Children, by Sibylle von Olfers
9.) Zen Shorts, by Jon J. Muth
10.) C.S. Lewis Books
11.) Under the Snowball Tree, by Ellie Kirby
12.) Seven Wild Sisters, by Charles de Lint and Charles Vess
13.) A Circle of Cats, by Charles de Lint and Charles Vess
14.) Madeleine L'Engle Books
15.) Zen ABC, by Amy Zerner and Jessie Spicer Zerner
16.) Clockwork, by Philip Pullman
17.) Green Angel, by Alice Hoffman

Interesting Religous Texts, Not in Italics:

1.) The Bhagavad Gita
2.) The Torah ("Genesis" - "Minor Prophets")
3.) The New Testament ("Matthew" - "Revelation")
4.) Book of Mormon
5.) The Vedas ("Rig Veda", "Sama Veda", "Yajur Veda" and "Atharva Veda")
6.) The Upavedas: The Post-Vedic Texts ("Aryurveda" - "Sthapatyaveda")
7.) Bardo Thodol: The Tibetan Book of the Dead
8.) The Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Main Scripture of the Bahá'í Faith)
9.) The Gnostic Gospels

That's all the books, for children and adults alike, that I can possibly think of right now! I plan to keep on adding books to this list as I come to think of them. But for now I'm going to make a list of my favorite movies and their directors.