Turning over an old leaf.

Or, a list (in no particular order nor significant number) of some of my favourite books.*

1. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
2. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
3. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
4. Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
5. Where I Was From by Joan Didion
6. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
7. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
8. Middlemarch by George Eliot
9. Lucy By the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
10. Forever by Pete Hamill
11. The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
12. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
13. Dracula by Bram Stoker
14. The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
15. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
16. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
17. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
18. Persuasion by Jane Austen
19. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
20. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
21. Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty
22. The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
23. The Book Thief by Markuz Zusak
24. In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
25. The Favourites by Mary Yukari Waters
26. Go As a River by Shelley Read
27. Wild Swans by Jung Chang
28. Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout
29. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
30. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
31. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
32. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
33. Jazz by Toni Morrison
34. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
35. The Hollow by Agatha Christie
36. Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
37. The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
38. Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
39. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
40. Boys in the Trees by Carly Simon
41. Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
42. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
43. Atonement by Ian McEwan
44. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
45. Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
46. New York by Edward Rutherfurd
47. White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
48. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
49. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
50. The Tenderness ofWolves by Stef Penney
51. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
52. And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

* Plays and poetry collections count as books!