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Guest Take Out List - Author, Kim Strickland
Here are several books I absolutely love that kind of make me wish I’d written them:
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A Prayer for Owen Meany,
by John Irving
This is my favorite book of all time and John Irving is my favorite author of all time. I love his wit and the unpredictability of his stories.
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The Poisonwood Bible,
by Barbara Kingsolver
The characters in this story, years after I read it, are still so real to me, like old friends. And the story, though achingly painful to read, was so “true” it didn’t feel like fiction.
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I Know This Much is True,
by Wally Lamb
This is a book that I can open to any page at any time and be completely drawn into the story, my acid test for a great book.
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The Way the Crow Flies,
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
A flawless work of fiction. My only gripe with Ann-Marie MacDonald is that she’s only written three books.
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Angela’s Ashes,
by Frank McCourt
This book launched the current red-hot memoir craze in publishing and is still, in my humble opinion, the gold standard to which all others should be held.
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Conversations with God,
by Neale Donald Walsch
This is the first book I ever read that, when I finished it, I immediately flipped it over and started reading it again. It changed my life forever.
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The Alchemist,
by Paulo Coelho
This is the second book I ever read that, when I finished it, I immediately flipped it over and started reading it again.
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