2.07.2008

2004 & Before

I've read hundred's, perhaps thousand's of books in my life; but not until I began reviewing books for a local radio station did I keep any kind of record. So, dear friend, the following is a short list of books from 2004 and many years before, that I remember and recommend:

A Lady’s Life in The Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg
Anthem by Ayn Rand
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

Before Women had Wings by Connie May Fowler

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Cloud Chamber by Michael Dorris

Daisy Bates in the Desert by Julia Blackburn

Eventide by Kent Haruf

Finding True Love

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
In The Wilderness by Kim Barnes

Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison

Man's Search For Meaning
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus

Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Portrait of An Artist

Riding the White Horse Home by Teresa Jordan
Reunion by Fred Uhlman

Simplify Your LIfe
Snow Falling On Cedars by David Guterson

Traplines
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
The Christmas Box
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
The Forrrest Lover
The Best Christmas Pagent Ever
The Catcher in the Rye
The Trouble With Poetry
The Discovery of the Titantic
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
This House of Sky by Ivan Doig
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
Tuesday’s With Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

West With The Night by Beryl Markham
We the Living by Ayn Rand
When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson