Reading List

Reading lists are very personal, but sometimes people wonder what artists and writers read. These are a few of the books on Cyd's shelves...maybe you'll enjoy some of them!


From youngest to oldest and anywhere in between:

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda , Esio Trot , Fantastic Mr. Fox, Dirty Beasts, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me and everything else by Roald Dahl

My Father's Dragon series by Ruth Stiles Gannett

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, Giraffe and a Half, Lafcadio : The Lion Who Shot Back and everything else by Shel Silverstein

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and everything else by C.S. Lewis

A Far Off Place and A Story Like the Wind by Laurens van der Post

The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter (a great teacher gift)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Art of Maurice Sendak by Selma G. Lanes

Most everything by Edgar Allen Poe

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

What's Eating Gilbert Grape? by Peter Hedges

The World According to Garp by John Irving

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving

The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman

The Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Power of Myth (anything by Joseph Campbell

A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell by Stephen Larsen

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living by Diane K. Osbon

Zen and the Art of Archery by Eugene Herrigel

Zen and the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

E.E. Cummings, the Magic Maker by Charles Norman

Complete Poems of e.e. cummings

The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

The Wisdomkeepers by Steve Wall

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Man's Eternal Quest by Paramahansa Yogananda

The Bhagavad Ghita translation by Paramahansa Yogananda

Pentimento by Lillian Hellman

The Way of Life by Lao Tzu

Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh



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