I found this one via Iliana. The object to to come up with an alphabetical list of favorite authors and books. I tried to do this without looking anything up, just what came out off my fingertips first. (Honestly, I didn’t get very far… and I gave up trying to find Q, X, and Z.) Some of which kind of surprised me. Why Douglas Adams and not Jane Austen or Lloyd Alexander?? I don’t know. That’ s just what came out.

• Adams, Douglas — Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul
• Bryson, Bill — I’m a Stranger Here Myself
• Card, Orson Scott — Speaker for the Dead
• Dreher, Rod — Crunchy Cons
• Estes, Eleanor — The Hundred Dresses
• Forester, E.M. — The Room with a View
• Gaiman, Neil — Stardust
• Hale, Shannon — Austenland (though it’s really hard to pick ONE)
• Irving, John — A Prayer for Owen Meany
• Jacobs, A.J. — The Year of Living Biblically
• Konigsburg, E.L. — The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• Lewis, C.S. — Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe
• McKinley, Robin — The Blue Sword
• Nafisi, Azar – Reading Lolita in Tehran
• O’Brien, Robert — Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• Pattou, Edith — East
• Q
• Rowling, JK — Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
• Smith, Dodie – I Capture the Castle
• Tolkien, J.R.R. — The Hobbit
• Urban, Linda — A Crooked Kind of Perfect
• Voight, Cynthia — Jackaroo
• Westerfield, Scott — Uglies
• X
• Yolen, Jane — the Merlin trilogy (Passager, Hobby, Merlin)
• Z

So, what’s your list look like?