Arlene Sanders






                 Some of my favorite books and plays

                  All Weekend With the Lights On, One of Us One Night, Mark Wisniewski
                  The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton
                  Acquired Tastes, Peter Mayle
                  As Long As It's Big, John Bricuth
                  Ava's Man, All Over but the Shoutin', Rick Bragg
                  Badass Poltergeist, Maureen Reese
                  The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Martin McDonagh
                  Believers, A Cold Glass of Milk, Madre, Nathan Leslie
                  Beyond the Rim: From Slavery to Redemption in Rappahannock
                        County, Virginia, James D. Russell              
                  The Butterfly House, The Piano Man, Marcia Preston
                  Castro's Curveball, Tim Wendel
                  Child of God, The Road, Blood Meridian, Outer Dark, Cormac McCarthy
                  Claptrap: Notes From Hollywood, Stephen Gyllenhaal    
                  Clay's Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves, The Coal Tattoo, Silas House
                  Clear and Present Danger, Tom Clancy
                  The Clearing, Tim Gautreaux
                  The Color Purple, Alice Walker
                  Come! Meet My Family, Paul Beckman
                  Dancer, Dinner at Angelo's, Marc Lapadula
                  The Discontinuity of Small Things, Kevin Haworth
                  Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
                  Dracula, Bram Stoker
                  The Diary of Anne Frank
                  The Elephant Man, Ashley Montagu
                  The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
                  Facing the Music, Big Bad Love, Larry Brown
                  Forever Amber, Kathleen Winsor
                  Frankenstein, The Last Man, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
                  Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage, Robert Morgan
                  The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, Dream of the Blue Room, Michelle Richmond
                  Gone, But Not Forgotten, Phillip Margolin
                  Glory Days, John K. Herr
                  Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
                  A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, They Whisper, Robert Olen Butler
                  The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
                  The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
                  Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimanda Ngozi Adichie
                  The Half-Mammals of Dixie, George Singleton
                  The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
                  Holocaust, Gerald Green
                  If Tomorrow Comes, Sidney Sheldon
                  I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down, Twlight, William Gay
                  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
                  Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
                  Julia, Lillian Hellmann
                  King James Bible
                  The Known World, Edward P. Jones
                  Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl
                  The Last Girls, Lee Smith
                  The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
                  Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
                  Long Day's Journey Into Night, Eugene O'Neill
                  Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
                  Loves Music, Loves to Dance, Mary Higgins Clark
                  Loving Mountains, Loving Men, Jeff Mann
                  The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, A Simple Habana Melody,
                       Oscar Hijuelos
                  The Midwife's Tale, Gretchen Moran Laskas
                  The Miss America Family, Julianna Baggott
                  Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Stephen King
                  Nothing in the World, Roy Kesey
                  The Onion Field, Fire Lover, Joseph Wambaugh
                  Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen
                  Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
                  The Pact, Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult
                  Papillion, Henri Charrière
                  Pears on a Willow Tree, Leslie Pietrzyk
                  Peyton Place, Grace Metalious
                  The Phantom Prince, Elizabeth Kendall
                  The Pilot's Wife, Anita Shreve
                  The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
                  The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
                  Things Kept, Things Left Behind, Jim Tomlinson
                  Radiance, John J. Clayton
                  Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
                  Red Stick Men, Tim Parrish
                  Refresh, Refresh, The Language of Elk, Benjamin Percy
                      The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
                  Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally
                  Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
                  The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Thomas Harris
                  Smonk, Poachers, Tom Franklin
                  A Sound Like Thunder, Sonny Brewer
                  The South is Round, David Magee
                  The Stone Fields, Courtney Angela Brkic
                  The Stranger Beside Me, Ann Rule
                  Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky
                  The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
                  Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Edgar Allan Poe
                  A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
                  Through My Looking Glass, Jan Bono
                  Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre, Erskine Caldwell
                  To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
                  Tomorrow They Will Kiss, Eduardo Santiago

                  THE TRAGIC FLAW, Ché Parker                               
                   
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                  The Two, Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace
                  Two Women, Alberto Moravia
                  Walking into the River, Walk on Water: A Memoir, Lorian Hemingway
                  War Trash, Ha Jin
                  White Oleander, Janet Fitch
                  The Widower, Now You Love Me, Liesel Litzenburger
                  Willingly, The Lover of Horses, Moon Crossing Bridge, Tess Gallagher
                  The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
                  Without, Donald Hall
                  Where I'm Calling From, Raymond Carver
                  Women and Other Animals, Bonnie Jo Campbell
                  Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
                  Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë




            
    Some of my favorite books are by editors of literary magazines, and I haven't
            
    listed those titles here.