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Books for "Porching"
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June 2001
Compiled by Marnie Oakes
of Reuben Hoar Library, Littleton, MA, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
Front or Side Porch Fiction:
Parting Gifts by Charlotte Vale Allen
Any book by Marjorie Allingham
Any book by Elizabeth Berg
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Bingo by Rita Mae Brown
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Any book by Barbara Cartland
Elm Creek Quilters books by Jennifer Chiaverini
Any book by Agatha Christie
Any book by Jennifer Crusie
Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
Any book by Diane Mott Davidson
A Parting Gift by Ben Erickson
Any book by Janet Evanovich
Any book by Katie Fforde
Bennie Harper mysteries by Earlene Fowler
Sullivan's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
Two Women by Marianne Fredriksson
Any book by Diana Gabaldon
The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney
Anne George's Southern Sisters mysteries
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Front Porch Tales by Philip Gulley
Friendship Cake by J. Lynne Hinton
Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The Mitford series by Jan Karon
Intimate Strangers by Alexandra Kay
Shadow Song by Terry Kay
Books by Frances Parkinson Keyes
Close Encounters by Sandra Kitt
Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna Landvik
Confederate Jasmine and the Fat Tuesday Tree: A Poetic Herbarium by Ann Lewis
Emilie Loring paperbacks
Favourite Summer Stories from Front Porch Al by Alan Maitland
Ladies of Covington Send Their Love by Joan Medlicott
How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
Miss Read's Thrush Green and Fairacre books
Dream Country by Luanne Rice
Firefly Beach by Luanne Rice
Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast by Bill Richardson
Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book by Bill Richardson
Jewels of the Sea trilogy set in Ireland by Nora Roberts
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann Ross
Miss Julia Takes Over by Ann Ross [July 2001 pub. date]
Any book by Dorothy L. Sayers
Outer Banks by Anne Rivers Siddons
Family Linen, Fancy Strut, Fair and Tender Ladies, Cakewalk by Lee Smith
Any Nero Wolfe book by Rex Stout
Consuming Passions: a food obsessed life by Michael West
Mama Makes Up Her Mind, Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White
Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes, an anthology by 6 well-known Southern women, among them Donna Ball, Virginia Ellis, Sandra Chastain and Deborah Smith and a subsequent anthology, Mossy Creek
Or almost *any* gentle read or romance novel.
For those who would love to travel to a foreign locale but can't:
The Olive Farm by Carol Drinkwater
Garden in Lucca by Paul Gervais
Chocolat by Joanne Harris (plus Blackberry Wine and/or Five Quarters of the Orange)
Extra Virgin by Annie Hawes
In Maremma by David Leavitt
On Rue Tatin by Susan Herrmann Loomis
Non-Fiction:
Anything by Frances Mayes and Peter Mayle
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Sitting on the Courthouse Bench: An Oral History of Grundy, Virginia by Lee Smith
Cookbooks dealing with produce (snapping green beans, shelling peas on the porch).
Humor collections from Robert Benchley, S.J. Perelman, P.G. Wodehouse and Patrick McManus
Art of Napping by William Anthony
Any Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
Cat's Cradle instructions
Embroidery books
Tea and cookie recipes
How to play checkers
Juvenile Fiction:
The Elizabeth Enright books, especially Gone-Away Lake, Return to Gone-Away,
Thimble Summer, and Then There Were Five
Paulsen's Harris and Me
Back Porch Adventures:
Halliburton, Junger, the 3 books on Mallory & Irvine, shipwrecks, etc? And for fiction, the Clancy/Robinson/Cussler/Hunter...
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