My Top Ten (In No Particular Order)

1.  The World According To Garp - John Irving

2.  Rose Madder - Stephen King

3.  On Writing - Stephen King

4.  The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

5.  Mommie Dearest - Christina Crawford

6.  Dictionary of Superstitions - David Pickering

7.  What's Your Poo Telling You - Josh Richmond & Anish Sheth, M.D.

8.  Needful Things - Stephen King

9.  The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

10.  The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies

  I've mostly been reading documents lately due to current life situations.  I do  however look forward  to starting a book soon, Grimm's Grimmest, by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.  I loved fairy tales as a child.  I am eager to see what the grimmer, horror versions of my beloved tales will have in store.......

  I find the  majority of my reading has been in the bathroom, on the potty or in the tub. 

  I also read in bed, while emerged in other activities, on transit, in the passenger seat, on vacation and should it be of a gripping, spellbinding interest Ive even been found to  read while walking down the road. 

  Everywhere I can think I've been I probably have read there at some point or another.

Fiction: Crime, Horror, Humor/Satire, Literary, Mystery, Short Story, Teen, Women's Fiction

Non-Fiction: Art, Architechture & Photography, Body, Mind & Spirit, Cooking, Food & Wine, Home & Garden, Humor, Memoir/Narrative Non-fiction, Outdoors & Nature, Parenting & Family, Pets, Reference, Self-Help, Sex & Relationships, Travel, True Crime, Women's Studies

Poetry: General

Carrie

  Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume were my first real Authors by choice.  I worked through those books in a mode of a passionate nature. 

  School reads that touched me profoundly or had lasting impressions are Lord of the Flies, The Outsiders, Diary of Anne Frank, Charlotte's Web and Of Mice and Men. 

  I read my first Adult Novel, Carrie by Stephen King.  I managed in one sitting to do so.  I couldn't put the book down, I read it from beginning to end.  This is where the love affair began for me....  

  I became very fond of Danielle Steele during my late teens and early twenties.  Which  brought a keen interest in Mary Higgins Clark and her work.  

  I enjoyed those books, however I found they were somewhat of an easy read for me.  Then my dream emerged, to be the female version of Stephen King.  A little more cut throat by a female author, less of the mystery/romance and more of the thriller/horror. 

  I had encountered a few books by other Authors that proved to be very poignant and profound over the years.  I have yet to find a writer that holds the same effect as Stephen King for me.  He truly writes what I want to read.....  

  I have enjoyed true crime novels on occasion, self-help, how-to, and the paranormal or occult categories. 

  True ghost stories are a sure hit for me, as is Alfred Hitchcock. 

  I own a fair number of Sylvia Browne Books, yet to be read.  I thoroughly enjoy her work, I know these will be hits as well.

  Certain books I purchased used repetitively through the years for ongoing situations are in categories of astrology, home remedies, quirky facts, movie guides and various others. 

  I enjoy reading biographies, not  necessarily auto-biographies.  I ravaged my Marilyn Monroe Bios so many times they are ragged  as well as James Dean's and other legends.