Betsy's Favorite Books
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Since June 3, 1997
Recommended Reading
Science Fiction
(Note: Linked titles take you to Amazon.com where you may read more about them and/or order them if you wish. These are truly my favorite books of all time and I highly recommend each and every one. Not one on this list does not sit on my own shelves at home, lovingly admired, and occasionally loaned to those I trust.)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Everything Octavia Butler has ever written! Especially:
Mind of My Mind
The Parable of the Sower
Imago
Everything Issac Asimov has ever written! (Especially The Foundation Trilogy and The Robot novels)
The Lathe of Heaven—Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wind’s Twelve
Quarters—Ursula K. Le Guin
The Mote in God’s Eye—Niven & Pournelle
The Gripping Hand—Niven & Pournelle
Dream Park—Niven, Pournelle, & Barnes
Lucifer’s Hammer—Niven & Pournelle
Stranger in a Strange Land—Heinlein
The Man Who Fell to Earth—Walter Tevis
The Tales of Alvin Maker—Orson Scott Card
The HomecomingSeries—Orson Scott Card
Science
A Brief History of Time—Stephen Hawkings
Black Projects
The Montauk Project—Preston B. Nichols
Creative Visualization—Shakti Gawain
The Secret Life of Plants—Tompkins & Bird
Life after Life—Raymond Moody, Jr., M.D.
The Celestine Prophecy—James Redfield
The Tao of Physics—Fritjof Capra
God and the New Physics—Paul Davies
The Lord of the Rings—J.R.R. Tolkien
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Crystal Cave,
Herland—Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Handmaid’s Tale—Margaret Atwood
Star of the Unborn—Franz Werfel (Rare)
The Tommyknockers—Stephen King
The Odyssey—Homer
The Lion in Winter—William Goldman (Simply brilliant)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain
Spiritual
Healing Words—Larry Dossey, M.D.
Physics Bordering on Spiritual
The Holographic Universe—Michael Talbot
Fantasy
The Once and Future King—T.H. White
and
The Hobbit—J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hollow Hills,
The Last Enchantment,
and
The Wicked Day by Mary StewartUtopia/Dystopia
Mainstream
Literary
The Divine Comedy—Dante Alligheri
This is the Fitzgerald translation which is excellent, but I also recommend a rare translation by T.E. Shaw (Lawrence of Arabia), which is exquisite but almost impossible to find.
are Dead—Tom StoppardClassics
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