Authors' Favs

Jane Yolen

Children's Picture book: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, GRANDFATHER TWILIGHT

Midgrade: SARAH PLAIN & TALL, TREASURE ISLAND, CHARLOTTE"S WEB

Young Adult: BEAUTY, ELSEWHERE, ARCHER'S GOON, HIS DARK MATERIALS

Adult Novel: POSSESSION, GAUDY NIGHT, PRACTICAL MAGIC, any of the Lt, Sharpe books

Other: Isaak Dinesen fairy tales

Kerry Madden

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Deborah Davis

PB: Anything by Suess. HOP ON POP, BLUEBERRIES FOR SAL, MIRETTE ON THE
HIGHWIRE

MG: A LITTLE PRINCESS, CHARLOTTE'S WEB

YA: THE BOOK THIEF, STAR GIRL, GONE WITH THE WIND.

Adult: EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES by Tom Robbins. THE MONKEY WRENCH
GANG by Ed Abbey, ATONEMENT

Writing Book - STORY, by McKee

Terie Garrison

Children's Picture book: THE STORY OF THE LITTLE MOLE WHO KNEW IT WAS NONE
OF HIS BUSINESS by Werner Holzwarth and Wolf Erlbruch, and WHERE THE WILD THINGS
ARE by Maurice Sendak

Midgrade: THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Young Adult: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN by Betty Smith, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by
Lee Harper, and JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte

Writing related book/ reference: WRITING DOWN TO THE BONES by Natalie Goldberg, and
THE WRITE TO WRITE by Julia Cameron

Adult Novel: LORD OF THE RINGS by JRR Tolkien, and the FARSEER TRILOGY by Robin
Hobb

Dotti Enderle

Children's Picture book: THE FIVE CHINESE BROTHERS (a childhood memory
thing)

Midgrade: WHEN ZACHARY BEAVER CAME TO TOWN

Young Adult: THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, LIFE AS WE KNEW IT

Writing related book/ reference: STORY by Robert McKee

Adult Novel: LAMB: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BIFF, CHRIST'S CHILDHOOD PAL

Robin MacCready

Children's Picture book: OVER AND OVER by Margaret Wise Brown,
pictures by Garth Williams

Early Chapter book: LITTLE BEAR by Else Holmelund Minarik, pictures by
Garth Williams

Midgrade:I AM REGINA by Sally M. Keehn, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, THE HOUSE
AT POOH CORNER by A.A. Milne, ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS

Young Adult: SHATTERING GLASS by Gail Giles, THE KILLER'S COUSIN by
Nancy Werlin

Writing related book/ reference:BIRD BY BIRD by Anee Lamott, ON WRITING by Stephen King

Adult Novel: GREAT EXPECTAIONS by Charles Dickens

Ellen Wittlinger

Picture Book: KING BIGGOOD'S IN THE BATHTUB by Don and Audrey Wood, ROXABOXEN
by Alice McLerran

Favorite mid-grade: SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL by Patricia Maclachlan

Favorite YA: CELINE by Brock Cole

Favorite adult book: anything by Grace Paley (admittedly mostly short stories)

Candie Moonshower

Estes' MOFFAT books and THE HUNDRED DRESSES

SARAH PLAIN AND TALL

Brent Hartinger

Middle Grade:
MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN (every boy's total fantasy!)

THE MAD SCIENTISTS CLUB (and sequel)

YA: THE OUTSIDERS

Linda Joy Singleton

Children's Picture book: SEA CHEST (Tony Buzzeo) also BARK, GEORGE by Jules
Feifer

Midgrade: CITY OF EMBER by Jeanne DuPrau & MAGYK by Angie Sage

Young Adult: SIGHTS by Susanna Vance & ESCAPE INTO MEMORY by Margaret Haddix
Peterson

Writing related book/ reference: CWIM

Adult Novel: POISON STUDY by Maria V. Snyder & UNEXPECTED MRS. POLLIFAX by
Dorothy GiIlman

Deborah Lynn Jacobs

Picture book: I lLOVE YOU FOREVER, PIGS, (anything by Munsch) CLICK CLACK MOO

Easy Reader: CORK AND FUZZ - Dori Chaconas

Middle Grade: CHRONICLES OF NARNIA

YA: ELSEWHERE, INEXCUSABLE, BEHIND YOU

Holly Black

Children's Picture book:

SPIDER AND THE FLY, Tony DiTerlizzi and Mary Howitt

Midgrade:

ELLA ENCHANTED, Gail Carson Levine
THE BOOK OF THREE, Lloyd Alexander

Young Adult:

THE THIEF Megan Whalen Turner
THE FOLK KEEPER, Franny Billingsley
WEETZIE BAT, Francesca Lia Block

Adult Novel:

SWORDSPOINT, Ellen Kushner
JACK OF KINROWAN, Charles de Lint
WAR FOR THE OAKS, Emma Bull
TALES FROM FLAT EARTH, Tanith Lee

Marlene Perez

PB-then WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS
Now-ODD VELVET, TUB TOYS, THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS, BAD CASE OF
STRIPES

mg--then-CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, THE SECRET GARDEN

now-THE GOLDEN COMPASS

YA--then-- CATCHER IN THE RYE, FOREVER, THE PIGMAN,

ADULT--then, THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, LORD OF THE RINGS

now-- THE MERCY OF THIN AIR and SAVAGE BEAUTY (bio of Edna St. Vincent
Millay)

Bennett Madison

Picture book : THE RUNAWAY BUNNY

mid grade: HARRIET THE SPY

YA: WEETZIE BAT, CRUDDY

writing book: BIRD BY BIRD

Adult novel: Alan Hollinghurst's THE LINE OF BEAUTY, Amy Hemple stories

Lisa Yee

Picture Book -- Hmmm, too many to list

Middle Grade -- WALK TWO MOONS (when I was a kid I loved Beverly
Cleary and Elenor Estes, Secret Garden, Oz books)

YA -- TWILIGHT (at this moment, because my daughter loves it too and
we're obsessing over Edward)

Book on writing -- BIRD BY BIRD by Anne Lamott

Adult Novel -- LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL l (also love all things Anne Tyler
and James Wilcox)

Virginia Loh

Children's Picture book: COOLIES, THE GIVING TREE, LOVE YOU FOREVER

Midgrade:A SINGLE SHARD, IN THE YEAR OF THE BOAR AND JACKIE ROBINSON

Young Adult: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET

Writing related book/ reference: BIRD BY BIRD

Adult Novel: HOUSE OF DARKNESS, GILEAD, LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA

Jeannie DuPrau

Picture book: GOOD BOY, FERGUS! , David Shannon. I love this because Fergus
looks and acts just like my dog.
Middle grade:
From when I was little: THE BORROWERS, THE MOFFATS, THE ELIZ. ENRIGHT BOOKS,
THE SECRET GARDEN, TOM SAWYER, MARY POPPNS, DOCTOR DOLITTLE...and on and
on.
From now: the Hilary McKay books--SAFFY'S ANGEL and sequels.

YA: I liked FEED, M.T. Anderson, also his OCTAVIAN NOTHING. BARTIMEUS TRILOGY,
QUEEN OF COOL.

Book on writing: (These are all really old) MYSTERY AND MANNERS, Flannery
O'Connor; IF YOU WANT TO WRITE, Brenda Ueland; BECOMING A WRITER, Dorothea
Brande. Also (on a different level) STEIN ON WRITING, Sol Stein.

Adult novel: Far too many to list. Oldsters: Dickens, the Brontes, Jane
Austen, etc. I grew up on the classics. Newies: Anything by Alice Munro
(stories), William Trevor, Penelope Lively, Ian McEwen. Recently read THE DEPTFORD
TRILOGY, by Robertson Davies, which I liked a lot. Anne Tyler. Lee Smith
(wonderful books about the south). Connie Willis (THE DOOMSDAY BOOK, TO SAY NOTHING
OF THE DOG) is my newest science fiction discovery.

Karen Halvorsen Schreck

Children's Picture book: WHEN SOPHIE GETS ANGRY; THE PAPERBOY; all the
MACDUFF books; MORE, MORE, MORE SAYS THE BABY (for the intimate spaces they
shaped between me and my kids).

Midgrade: THE GOLDEN COMPASS; OUT OF THE DUST. HARRIET THE SPY, MIX UP
FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER

Young Adult: So many favs, so I'll stick with where I am right now: I'm
reading I CAPTURED THE CASTLE for the first time. Oh, my.

Writing related book/reference: BIRD BY BIRD; THE ART OF FICTION.

Adult Novel: I'm currently reading THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Krauss,
and I'm head over heels. But I also feel passionately about: ATONEMENT, IN
THE SKIN OF A LION, PERSEPOLIS (graphic novel), BELOVED

Elise Broach

Picture book: BLUEBERRIES FOR SAL,

midgrade: MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, LITTLE HOUSE SERIES, ISLAND OF THE
BLUE DOLPHINS, THE GREAT BRAIN SERIES

young adult: THE OUTSIDERS

Alex Flinn

Children's Picture Book: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Sendak. My kids'
favorite is KNUFFLEBUNNY by Mo Willems

Middle Grade: I have to divide these into categories -- (old) A LITTLE PRINCESS by Burnett.
(medium) MATILDA by Roald Dahl. (recent) THE GIRLS by
Amy Goldman Koss.

Young Adult: RATS SAW GOD by Rob Thomas

Adult: THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST by Anne Tyler

Writing book: CREATING CHARACTER EMOTION by Anne Hood

Amy Goldman Koss

Children's Picture Book: COWBOY DREAMS by Dayal Kaur Khalsa
PIG WILLIAM by Arlene Dubanevich

Middle Grade: THE LITTLE PRINCE by Antoine De Saint--Exupery

Young Adult: (this week) GRIEF GIRL by Erin Vincent

Adult: TRUTH AND BEAUTY by Ann Patchett
CIDER HOUSE RULES by John Irving

Eric Luper

Picture book: CLICK, CLACK, MOO

Middle grade: THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH

YA: LOOKING FOR ALASKA

Book on writing: THE WRITER'S JOURNEY by Christopher Vogler

Adult novel: I'd say SEABISCUIT, but really that's non-fiction, so I'd have
to say THE PAPERBOY by Pete Dexter.

Laura Ruby

Children's: MANY MOONS, Thurber

Middle-grade: MIXED UP FILES, HARRIET THE SPY, THE WESTING GAME, ELLA
ENCHANTED, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, ALLEGRA MAUD GOLDMAN

YA: Nearly everything by Robin McKinley, RATS SAW GOD, THE GOOSE GIRL

Adult: PRIDE & PREJUDICE, PERSUASION (Austen), WINTER'S TALE (Helprin),
NEVERWHERE (Gaiman), SET THIS HOUSE IN ORDER (Ruff)

Other: THE BESTSELLER (Goldsmith)

David LaRochelle

Children's Picture Book:
HOW TO MAKE AN APPLE PIE and SEE THE WORLD, Marjorie Priceman
KING BIDGOOD'S IN THE BATHTUB by Don and Audrey Wood
OFFICER BUCKLE AND GLORIA by Peggy Rathman
THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY by Simms Taback

Middle Grade:
DEAR MR. HENSHAW by Beverly Cleary

Young Adult:
ELSEWHERE by Gabrielle Zevin
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH by Avi

Adult Novel:
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
THE MAN WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THE MOON by Tom Spanbauer (beautiful,
erotic gay love story, though the ending is gruesome)

Dorian Cirrone

GERALD MCBOING BOING, Dr Suess

Sarah Beth Durst

Children's picture book: MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLING, by Robert McCloskey

Midgrade:
THE MONSTERS OF MORLEY MANOR, by Bruce Coville
DEEP WIZARDRY by Diane Duane

Young Adult:
BEAUTY by Robin McKinley
ALANNA by Tamora Pierce

Writing related book / reference:
BIRD BY BIRD by Anne Lamott

Adult Novel:
JACK THE GIANT KILLER by Charles de Lint

Sarah Darer Litmann

Children's Picture book: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak, EACH PEACH
PEAR PLUM by Allan and Janet Ahlberg

Midgrade: DOUBLE FUDGE by Judy Blume, A LITTLE PRINCESS by Frances Hodgon
Burnett, BALLET SHOES by Noel Streitfield, Johnny Tremain

Young Adult: THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak (but there are oh-so-many others!)

Writing related book/ reference: Stephen King "ON WRITING" Anne Lamott "BIRD BY BIRD"

Adult Novel: THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY by Michael Chabon,
THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Krauss, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by
Oscar Wilde (ok, I know it's not a novel) and pretty much anything by PG Wodehouse.