Recommended Reading

My favorite books to read are those with strong, realistically drawn characters, especially those that happen to have female heroes. These are a few that I have grown up with or fallen in love with, or both, for all the right reasons.

Robin McKinley's The Hero and The Crown

Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles

Zylpha Keatly Snyder's Green Sky Trilogy

Tad William's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn

Lois McMaster Bujold's Paladin of Souls

Barbara Hambly's Dragonsbane

Elisabeth Kerner's The Song in the Silence

Natalie Babbit's Tuck Everlasting

Patricia McKillip's Moon Flash

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game

Terry Brook's The Sword of Shannara

Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy

Lois Lowry's The Giver

Andre Norton's The Crystal Gryphon

Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule