Our Bookhouse: favorite authors, off the top of my head

in the stack: books I'm planning to read

Beauty Will Save the World by Gregory Wolfe
Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
Campion by Evelyn Waugh
One Second After by William Forstchen
I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse by Michael Franzese
The Song is You by Arthur Phillips
Led by Faith by Imaculee Ilibagiza
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
100 Years of Solitude by GGM
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
Lonely Hearts by John Harvey
The Story of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Bang the Drum Slowly
Provincial Lady books by E. M. Delafield
Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni
Elizabeth Gaskell: Wives and Daughters; North and South; Mary Barton
H. Rider Haggard: She; Kind Solomon's Mines
Dickens: Dombey and Son
A Stolen Season by Steve Hamilton
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
An Easy Way to Become a Saint by Fr. Paul Sullivan
The Count of Monte Cristo
sequels to Mutiny on the Bounty by Nordhoff & Hall

some favorites

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin series
PG Wodehouse: many many titles
Jane Austen's 6 novels
Ring Lardner: You Know Me Al
Josephine Tey: The Franchise Affair; Brat Farrar
The Provincial Lady in America by E. M. Delafield
George Smiley books by John le Carre
A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Colin Dexter: Inspector Morse mysteries
Agatha Christie (esp. Miss Marple)
Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone; The Woman in White
Ngaio Marsh mysteries
Bruce Marshall: The World, The Flesh, and Father Smith
Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight
James Herriot: All Creatures Great and Small series
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Charles Dickens