A few favourites

I saw a meme of favourite authors on someone's blog, and contemplated coming up with my own list.  However, I soon realized that I really didn't have enough favourite authors to compile a list that would span the alphabet.  Most of the time, I would find a book that I'd love, and would search out another book by the same author, only to be disappointed.  So, I tweaked the meme a bit, and listed favourite book titles instead.  Here they are -- some are old childhood favourites, and some are recent discoveries.  You'll notice that I couldn't think of anything beginning with the letters q, u, v, y, and z.  Please leave your suggestions for those letters if you have any!

A – Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery), Autobiography of My Mother (Jamaica Kincaid), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), All that Matters (Wayson Choy)
B – A Bird in the House (Margaret Laurence), Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
C – A Complicated Kindness (Miriam Toews), Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
D – Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (David Sedaris), Duino Elegies (Rainer Maria Rilke)
E – Ellen Foster (Kaye Gibbons)
F – The Flame Trees of Thika (Elspeth Huxley), Falling Angels (Barbara Gowdy)
G – Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
H – The Hours (Michael Cunningham), Howards End (E.M. Forster)
I – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino)
J – Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
K – The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
L – Little Women (Louisa May Alcott), The Lesser Blessed (Richard Van Camp)
M – Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov), Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
N – Not Wanted on the Voyage (Timothy Findley), Nervous Conditions (Tsitsi Dangarembga)
O – Oscar and Lucinda (Peter Carey)
P – Peter Pan and Wendy (J.M. Barrie), A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
R – Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead (Tom Stoppard)
S – Snow (Orhan Pamuk), Specimen Days (Michael Cunningham), The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence), Shantaram (Gregory David Roberts)
T – Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy), The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien)
W – Written on the Body (Jeanette Winterson), Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)
X – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)

I was going to include only novels, but just couldn't resist my favourite volume of poetry (Rilke) and my favourite play (Stoppard).  I also know that I had to cheat with my selection beginning with the letter x.  At the very least, this has been a good exercise in focusing on something other than the on-going conflict with myself over whether or not to leave Inuvik.