What I’m reading right now:

Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn 

Some of my recent favorites include:

* Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

* Hypocrite in a Poofy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman (who, interestingly enough, is one of Frank McCourt’s former students and is mentioned in Teacher Man)

* The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

* A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

 

My classic favorites:

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Macbeth and Othello by William Shakespeare

1984 by George Orwell

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams