Things I Believe Everyone Should Read, Do, Think About, Make, See, Experience, etc.
“Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”
― Douglas Adams
Recommended Novels
in no particular order
an asterisk after an author's name means that I recommend everything or almost everything by that author
My Antonia by Willa Cather Passing by Nella Larson
Sula by Toni Morrison* Winter's Tale by Mark Halprin
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton* Ghost Story by Peter Straub*
Black Boy by Richard Wright* The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck* Tracks by Louise Erdrich*
Arabian Jazz by Diana Abu-Jaber The Women's Room by Marilyn French
The Amelia Peabody Mystery Series by Elizabeth Peters* The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury*
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddon
The Color Purple by Alice Walker* Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood*
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson* Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy*
The Grass Dancer by Susan Power Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow
Here On Earth by Alice Hoffman* The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler*
Things Fall Apart by China Achebe Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange*
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud* The Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo
The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Patron Saint of Ugly by Marie Manilla* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams*
Fine Lines: The Best of Ms. Fiction edited by Ruth Sullivan
(my absolute favorite collection of short stories)
I've Been Everywhere
North, Central, and South American places from the song "I've Been Everywhere."
Places that are bold are the ones I have been to.
How do your travels compare?
Reno Chicago Fargo Minnesota Buffalo Toronto Winslow Sarasota
Wichita Tulsa Ottawa Oklahoma Tampa Panama Mattawa La Paloma
Bangor Baltimore Salvador Amarillo Tocailla Barranquilla Padilla Boston
Charleston Dayton Louisiana Washington Houston Kingston Texarkana Monterey
Faraday Santa Fe Tallapoosa Glen Rock Black Rock Little Rock Oskaloosa Tennessee
Hennessey Chicopee Spirit Lake Grand Lake Devil's Lake Crater Lake Louisville Nashville
Knoxville Ombabika Schefferville Jacksonville Waterville Costa Rica Pittsfield Springfield
Bakersfield Shreveport Hackensack Cadillac Fond du Lac Davenport Idaho Jellico
Argentina Diamatina Pasadena Catalina Pittsburgh Parkersburg Gravelbourg Colorado
Ellensburg Rexburg Vicksburg El Dorado Larimore Admore Haverstraw Chatanika
Chaska Nebraska Alaska Opelaka Baraboo Waterloo Kalamazoo Kansas City
Sioux City Cedar City Dodge City Winnemucca
Some Of My Favorite Quilters (in no particular order, and linked to their web sites or web sites about them)
Songs by Judy Hoowoth (2005)
Double Dutch on the Golden Gate Bridge
Cindy Watkins by Faith Ringgold (1998)
