Arlene Sanders


                         Some of My Favorite Books & Plays


         All Weekend With the Lights On, One of Us One Night, Mark Wisniewski
         The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton
         Acquired Tastes, Peter Mayle
         And Never Let Her Go, Ann Rule
         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
         Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden             
         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, Larry Brown
         Forever Amber, Kathleen Winsor
         Four Hours in My Lai, Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim
         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
         A House for Mr. Biswas, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
         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
         Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
         Julia, Lillian Hellmann
         Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
         Killer Instinct, Jane Hamsher
         King James Bible
         The Known World, Edward P. Jones
         Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl
         The Last Girls, Lee Smith
         Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
         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 Men of the Pacific Street Social Club Cook Italian, Gerard Renny
         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
         Patriots, Christian G. Appy
         Pears on a Willow Tree, Leslie Pietrzyk
         Perpetual Care: Stories, James Nolan
         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 RAIN, Tim Wendel

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         Red Stick Men, Tim Parrish
         Refresh, Refresh, The Language of Elk, Benjamin Percy
         The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
         Safe Suicide, DeWitt Henry
         Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally
         Schrödinger’s Universe, Milo Wolff
         Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
         The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Thomas Harris
         Smonk, Poachers, Tom Franklin
         The Sorrow of War, Bao Ninh
         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 PRECIOUS LIFE, Ché Parker                               
          
                             See www.cheparker.com                             
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                                              www.amazon.com

       
         The Tragic Flaw, Ché Parker
         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.