#Florence Crannell Means

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Wuffie & Angel’s Essential Reading List

So, @tlbodine​ and I, having done many of those “Which of these books have you read?” lists, decided that all of them didn’t touch the truly eclectic nature of our own reading habits. 

Last night, we wrote our own. 

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

Rotters - Daniel Krauss

Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher

Biting the Sun - Tanith Lee

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway - Robert Cormier

Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

The White Bone - Barbara Gowdy

The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley 

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

I Am Legend - Richard Matheson

War for the Oaks - Emma Bull

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn

Dangerous Angels - Francesca Lia Block

Silk - Caitlin R. Kiernan

Misery - Stephen King

Carrie - Stephen King 

Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card

They Walked Like Men - Clifford D. Simak

Neuromancer - William Gibson

The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis

Dr. Bloodmoney - Philip K. Dick

Poisonwood Bible - Barbara King Solver

Us Maltbys - Florence Crannell Means

One Child - Torey Hayden

Red Dragon - Thomas Harris

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L’Engel

Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin

Hop-Frog - Edgar Allen Poe

The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell *

When Rabbit Howls - The Troops for Trudi Chase *

Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk 

To Dance With Kings - Rosalind Laker

Whoever Fights Monsters - Robert K. Reseller *

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Hannah Green

Dreamland Lake - Richard Peck

The Talisman - Stephen King & Peter Straub

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Birth of Fire - Jerry Pournelle

A Patch of Blue - Elizabeth Kata

Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind

The Humanoids - Jack Williamson

Day by Night - Tanith Lee

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

The Princess Bride - William Goldman

Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

Dreams in the Witch House - H.P. Lovecraft

The Cold Equations - Tom Godwin

Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Notes from the Underground - Friedrich Nietzsche

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

Roots - Alex Haley

And Then There Were None - Agatha Cristie

Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O’Dell

Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George

The Hatchet - Gary Paulsen

The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle

Grendel - John Gardner

The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot

The Dracula Tapes - Fred Saberhagen

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Dogsbody - Diana Wynn Jones

The Fairy Reel - Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow

My Family & Other Animals - Gerald Durrell

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz

Superstitions - Peter Lorie *

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Othello - William Shakespeare 

No Exit - Jean-Paul Sartre

Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You - Sue William Silverman

The Last Werewolf - Glen Duncan

Starving for Attention - Cherry Boone O’Neill

All Animals Great & Small - James Harriott

The Essential Calvin & Hobbes - Bill Watterson

Level 7 - Mordecai Roshwald

The History of Hell - Alice K. Turner *

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner *

Heart of Conrad & the Velociraptor Women - Joseph Darkness

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

Dark Matter - Blake Crouch

Letters from the Inside - John Marsden

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - David Simon *

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

The Little Match Girl - Hans Christian Andersen

Grimm’s Grimmest - Brothers Grimm

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty

Alanna: the First Adventure - Tamora Pierce

The Beast - R.L. Stein

The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury

Bunnicula - James Howe

Wolf at the Door - Barbara Corcoran 

The Hot Zone - Richard Preston *

The Rats of NIHM - Robert C. O’Brian 

The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Tails of Wonder and Imagination - Ellen Datlow

Tales from the Flat Earth - Tanith Lee

{* -non-fiction/non-memoir}

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"Oh, Rose-Ellen!" Grandma called.