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Favorite Books


My Favorite Books

 

People often ask me what my favorite book is. I usually tell them WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS. But I have many books that I love, and I decided to write them down and sort them by how much they affected me:

The List

WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS by Wilson Rawls

THE RED PONY by John Steinbeck

THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE by Forest Carter

GO DOWN MOSES by William Faulkner

ALL THE PRETTY HORSES by Cormac McCarthy

DELIVERANCE by James Dickey

SHANE by Jack Shaefer

CATCHER IN THE RYE by JD Salinger

ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain

LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

A CHILDHOOD by Harry Crews

SANDS OF THE KALHARI by William Mulvihill

JOE by Larry Brown

MAN-EATERS OF KUMAON by Jim Corbett

TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A SEPARATE PEACE by John Knowles

THE CRYSTAL CAVE by Mary Stewart

ENDURANCE: SHACKLETON’S INCREDIBLE VOYAGE by Alfred Lansing

CORONADO’S CHILDREN by J. Frank Dobie

COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier

THE LONG WALK by Slavomir Rawicz

LEGENDS OF THE FALL by Jim Harrison

DESERT DOG by Jim Kjelgaard

THE COUNT OF MONTE CHRISTO by Alexandre Dumas

DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD – Roald Dahl

THE GIVING TREE by Shel Siverstein

THE BIGGEST BEAR by Lynd Ward

GONE TO TEXAS by Forrest Carter

THE YEARLING by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

RUN WITH THE HORSEMEN by Ferrol Sams

RED SKY AT MORNING by Richard Bradford