My reading list for 2006

I just finished reading Gladys Hunt's Honey for a Woman's Heart. This book is an adult version of her classic volume about books for children, Honey for a Child's Heart. This adult version is a pip -- she's got suggested reading in every genre with summaries of the plots. She also includes lists from others -- famous authors, teachers or just plain folk. The books are very much woman-centered and/or provocative.

Here's my list of reading books based on reading Mrs. Hunt's book:

• Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
• The Heaven Tree Trilogy, by Edith Pargeter
• Reading in Bed, edited by Steven Gilbar
• Excellent Women and Quartet in Autumn, by Barbara Pym
• Never Too Late, A Double Affair, Enter Sir Robert and Country Chronicle, by Angela Thirkell
• I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith
• Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
• Scarlet Music, by Joan Ohanneson
• Journal of Hildegard of Bingen, by Barbara Lachman
• Thurber Carnival, by James Thurber
• Miss Mapp, Queen Lucia, Lucia's Progress, by E.F. Benson
• The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican, by J.P. Gallagher
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West
• We Die Alone, by David Howarth
• The Forgotten, by Elie Wiesel

Well, that list should keep me busy for a while! I think I'll post my progress as well as reviews of each of these books -- they all sound wonderful!