The Pulpwood Gives List of Books That She Will Never Forget, 65, in Fact!

1. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

2) Snow Flower & the Secret Fan by Lisa See

3) Man in a Blue Moon by Michael Morris

4) The Rich Part of Life by Jim Kokoris

5) The Overstory by Richard Powers

6) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

7) My Orange Duffel Bag by Sam Bracken

8) Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall with Denver Moore

9) The Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez

10) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

12) The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

13) Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil” by John Berendt

14) Love Is a Wild Assault by Elithe Hamilton Kirkland

15) Big Fish by Daniel Wallace

16) A Piece of Mine by J. California Cooper

17) Rules of a Knight by Ethan Hawke

18) All That Is Bitter & Sweet by Ashley Judd

19) Somebody’s Someone by Regina Louise

20) Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck

21) Hotel On the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by Jamie Ford

22) Electroboy by Andy Behrman

23) The Canal House by Mark Lee

24) The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

25) Life is So Good by George Dawson

26) Body of Knowledge by Carol Dawson

27) Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

28) Tell Me a Story by Cassandra King Conroy

29) The Great Santini by Pat Conroy

30) Drunk with Love by Ellen Gilchrist

31) Charms for a Southern Life by Kaye Gibbons

32) All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg

33) Taps by Willie Morris

34) Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress

35) Down From the Dogstar by Daniel Glover

36) Sharp as a Serpent’s Tooth by Mandy Haynes

37) Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

38) Rain Village by Carolyn Turgeon

39) The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy by Robert Leleux

40) Miss American Pie by Margaret Sartor

41)Screen Door Jesus & Other Stories by Christopher Cook

43) Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates

44) Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman

45) The Rock Hole by Reavis Z. Wortham

46) Magic Time by Doug Marlette

47) The Color Purple by Alice Walker

48) With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt

49) Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind by Yural Noah Hurari

50) West Into the Night by Beryl Markham

51) The Book of Lost Words by Robert MacFarland

52) Homage to Humanity by Jimmy Nelson

53) King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Kahn and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema by Anupama Chopra

54) Auntie Mama by Patrick Dennis

55) My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt

56) The Cats of Shambala by Tippi Hedren

57) The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin

58) Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns

59) The Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganis

60) Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

61) Saints at the River by Ron Rash

62) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandra Dumas

63) The Paris Wife by Paula Mclain

64) The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman

65) Before Women Had Wings by Connie May Fowler

I could go on and on but posted a book for every year, as almost 65.  These are just the ones that kind of haunt me but I could give literally hundreds and hundred more on recommended reads. These are not in any particular rating order, just books that came to my mind that I still think about often! You will also find that these are just a few amongst my 21 years of selecting Official reads for my International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club READING NATION. I gave my reading list in my first book and will continue in the one I am reading now as ‘A good book is a good book not matter when it is written’. I go back and reread books as each read during theat particular time takes on new nuances and insights. READ, it’s that important!