<p>So I’m going to make a few lists…</p>
<p>Fun to read classics:
Jane Austen (Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice are my favorites), Bronte-Jane Eyre, George Elliot- Middlemarch, F.Scott Fitzgerald-This Side of Paradise, Edith Wharton-Age of Innocence,</p>
<p>Classic Sci Fi: Asimov - Foundation Trilogy and I Robot, Ursula LeGuin - Left Hand of Darkness, Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land, Herbert - Dune, </p>
<p>and not yet classic, but I love them Lois M. Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan books, Elizabeth Moon - Speed of the Dark</p>
<p>Classic Fantasy - CS Lewis - Narnia, Tolkein - Lord of the Rings, Peter S. Beagle -The Last Unicorn, Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising books, Diana Wynne Jones - Chrestmanci books and the Dalemark quartet</p>
<p>Children’s books you should read if you missed them: Grahame - The Wind in the Willows, Arthur Ransome - The Swallows and Amazons, Wilder - The Little House Books, Alcott - Little Women and Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom. Gene Stratton-Porter - The Girl of the Limberlost, Jean Webster - Daddy-long-legs, Noel Streatfield - Ballet Shoes</p>
<p>Autobiographies; Boy and Solo - Roald Dahl, Vera Britain - Testament of Youth, Feynman - Surely you’re Joking Mr. Feynman</p>
<p>Fun science essays: Oliver Sacks -The Man Who mistook his wife for a hat, Lewis Thomas - Lives of the Cell, Stephen J Gould - The Panda’s Thumb</p>
<p>Books by non-Western writers that I’ve actually enjoyed: Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner, Isabelle Allende - House of the Spirits, Danticat - Claire of the Sea Light</p>