Some of Jeanne Shannon's Favorite Books
January 2009

  1. Rock Big and Sing Loud (stories) – Tamara Baxter 

  2. The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself – Susan Bell 

  3. Catherine, Called Birdy  (young adult novel) – Karen Cushman 

  4. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 

  5. The Book of Loss (novel set in 10th-century Japan) – Julith Jedamus 

  6. Collected Poems – Jane Kenyon 

  7. Your Mind is Like the Sky: Talks on Love, Ego, and Spirituality – Jane Kopp 

  8. The House at Riverton (novel) – Kate Morton 

  9. Soul-Sick Nation: An Astrologer’s View of America – Jessica Murray 

  10. 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl – Daniel Pinchbeck

 
February 2006
  1. Robert Creeley, Editor – The Best American Poetry, 2002
  2. William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
  3. Kaye Gibbons – Ellen Foster
  4. Mary Rising Higgins – Red Tables (poems)
  5. Ronald Johnson – The Shrubberies (poems)
  6. Denise Levertov – Selected Poems
  7. Tova Mirvis – The Ladies Auxiliary
  8. Barbara Pym – Quartet in Autumn
  9. Lee Smith – Black Mountain Breakdown
  10. Franz Werfel – The Song of Bernadette

February 2005
  1. Eva Figes - Light
  2. Janet Fitch - White Oleander
  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
  4. Robert Girardi - Madeleine's Ghost
  5. Katherine Mansfield - The Garden Party and Other Stories
  6. Larry McMurtry - The Desert Rose
  7. Shelley Fraser Mickle - The Queen of October
  8. Diane Schoemperlen - Our Lady of the Lost and Found
  9. Lee Smith - The Devil's Dream
  10. C. D. Wright - Steal Away