Posted by AmberStClaire
Feb 20, 2009 6:28 pm

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• AmberSt Claire-Does it have to be a children's book?

  Feb 20, 2009 9:45 pm
  by EDITHJWHARTON

• Hi, Edith:
  
  I wish I knew how to get this in the right forum....thanks for replying ....no...actually The Secret Garden on NPR was also picked by several that authors that were asked for their buttonhole books.....and my friend suggested that everyone should read it....
  This woman is in her 70's now and reads so many books and has all her life....for those three books to be her most memorable of all time...her buttonhole books ...I think it's wonderful that they were that special to her.
  It's not the books that you have to think about....it's the special one or ones...that come first to mind....and I do believe that we all have at least one...
  So what's yours?

  Feb 20, 2009 10:25 pm
  by AmberStClaire

• sorry for the typos..would fix if I knew how...

  Feb 20, 2009 10:27 pm
  by AmberStClaire

• Here goes-
  A Prayer for Owen Meany
  Lonesome Dove
  Jane Eyre

  Feb 22, 2009 3:07 pm
  by EDITHJWHARTON

• The Belgariad
  Harry Potter
  A Clockwork Orange

  Mar 1, 2009 11:39 pm
  by books

• The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
  The Hero and the Crown (Robin McKinley)
  Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (David Foster Wallace)
  Those are probably the ones that have lasted the longest in my life.
  
  I also have a revolving list of stuff I've read lately that I'm telling everyone about. Right now, it's:
  Mockingbird (Sean Stewart)
  Spiral Hunt (Margaret Ronald)
  Pandemonium (Daryl Gregory)

  Mar 2, 2009 8:40 am
  by Dinosaur

• "Of Mice and Men" (John Steinbecck)
  "Flowers for Algernon" (Daniel Keyes)
  "To Kill A Mockingbird" (Harper Lee)
  "Great Expectations" (Charles Dickens)

  Mar 21, 2009 1:17 am
  by Christycat

• A Separate Peace (John Knowles)
  The Chosen (Chaim Potok)
  The Age of Grief (Jane Smiley)

  Mar 21, 2009 12:49 pm
  by SleepyReader

• I love the idea of "Buttonhole Books." Mine are probably:
  -Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
  -Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
  Also loved The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster) as a child

  Mar 22, 2009 10:55 am
  by susan (admin)

• Looking for my Buttonhole books as we speak!

  Mar 23, 2009 9:40 am
  by fredsmilek

• Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
  The Blue Sword (Robin McKinley)

  Apr 2, 2009 12:39 am
  by exia

• The Rum Diaries - Hunter S. Thompson
  Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
  East of Eden - John Steinbeck

  Apr 3, 2009 4:37 pm
  by diamondgirlmel

• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

  Apr 23, 2009 9:22 pm
  by mknit

• The Bible (New Revised Standard Version)
  The Miss Read series from England
  Alexandra Stoddard books

  Apr 24, 2009 1:38 am
  by Sunshiny

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower-Stephen Chbosky
  High Fidelity-Nick Hornby
  The Naked Lunch-William Burroughs
  Looking For Alaska-John Green

  Apr 24, 2009 10:37 am
  by AidenNocturne

• @diamondgirlmel
  i LOVE Hunter S Thompson, but I had never heard of that book!
  i think I'll have to look it up!
  
  and go ask alice is completely heartbreaking...a very good button hole book!

  Apr 24, 2009 10:38 am
  by AidenNocturne

• Veronika Decides to Die- Paulo Coelho
  Sanctuary- Paul Monette
  Dry- Augusten Burroughs
  Unholy Ghost-Nell Casey
  The Beautifully Worthless- Ali Liebegott

  Apr 26, 2009 10:56 am
  by pareidolia

• Up A Road Slowly - Irene Hunt
  Christ the Lord - Anne Rice
  Lorna Doone - RD Blackmore

  Apr 26, 2009 12:31 pm
  by tink29

• Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi
  Anything by Alice Munro

  Jun 18, 2009 10:04 pm
  by 99susanne

• I don't remember recommending books often, but I have mentioned "God's Debris" by Scott Adams (Dilbert's "dad") three times to as many people in the last year and a half. Also, there are books by Terry Prattchett I'll buttonhole folks over-- those friends who already read fantasy but for some strange reason haven't tried Prattchett, at least-- but which ones depend on the individual. One can always start with "The Colour of Magic", but some people would be more likely to get into the sub-series starting with "Guards, Guards"-- for instance.

  Jun 18, 2009 10:21 pm
  by Laylah

• water for elephants
  the book thief
  the alchemist
  the princess bride

  Jun 18, 2009 10:33 pm
  by robynsc

• True at First Light (Hemingway)
  Or I'll Dress You In Mourning (Larry Collins & Dominique LaPierre)
  The Long Dark Tea time of the Soul (Douglas Adams)

  Jun 19, 2009 4:20 pm
  by Clay1279

• "To Kill A Mockingbird" (Harper Lee)
  "The Poisonwood Bible" (Barbara Kingsolver)
  "Life of Pi" (Yann Martel)
  "Ahab's Wife" (Sena Naslund)
  "The Giver" (Lois Lowry)
  "Ender's Game" (Orson Scott Card)
  "

  Jun 19, 2009 4:21 pm
  by tin0002

• The Master's Violin by Myrtle Reed
  Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
  Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Emma; Mansfield Park; and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

  Jun 30, 2009 12:03 pm
  by adrialien

• A Prayer for Own Meany
  Eat, Pray, Love
  Crime and Punishment
  Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
  The Color Purple
  Dante's Inferno (Divine Comedy)

  Jul 1, 2009 12:36 pm
  by snider