My favorite books... a comfortable list :)

Some friends & I have been sharing book lists on Facebook so I thought I'd share here, too. The criteria are: no repeat authors and to especially list the books you go back to over and again. When I sat down to write the list however, I realized that I was having a really hard time limiting myself to one book per favorite author. So this has become a list of favorite authors in some ways.

In writing this list a couple truths were pressed upon me: I prefer to read as an escape and really love fiction and fantasy (no surpirse there, but apparently most of my friends are less this way)! And I guess I'm also a romantic at heart (blush, blush). Though, there is little romantic about Flannery O'Connor and she is my #2!

Each of these books gets read almost every year, some of them more often than that. They are all dear to my heart and bring me comfort in their familiar words. I'd love to hear what your repeat reads are! Leave a me a comment with a link if you want to share :)

1. Jane Austen: Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice & Sense and Sensibility in that order, though I re-read her complete works about once a year.
2. Flannery O'Connor: the complete works of short stories
3. CS Lewis: The space trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) over Chronicles of Narnia any day.
4. LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island :)
5. George MacDonald: The Princess & the Goblin, The Fisherman's Lady, The Marquis' Secret
   
6. Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns
7. Gap Creek, Robert Morgan
8. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
9. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
   
10. Deerskin, Robin McKinley