My Favorite Things

Books I Love
Whimsical, Comical and/or Adventurous:
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Holes by Louis Sachar
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel (memoir)
Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Half Magic by Edward Eager
City Boy by Herman Wouk

Serious, Touching and/or Tragic:
The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
Foster by Claire Keegan
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
Bless the Beasts and Children by Glendon Swarthout
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

Short Stories I Love
Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
The Innocent by Graham Greene
The Little Knife by Michael Chabon
For Esme -- with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger
The Quest for Blank Claveringi by Patricia Highsmith
L’Elegance by Rumer Godden

Top Five Movies (because I could go on and on...)
The Apartment
Rushmore
Bagdad Cafe
The Sting
A Little Romance (but first hour only)

Top Five Broadway Musicals (see above)
A Chorus Line
Xanadu
Sweeney Todd
She Loves Me
Little Shop of Horrors