Some of Jeanne Shannon's Favorite Books
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
July 2004
  1. Kate Braverman – Palm Latitudes
  2. Ron Hansen – Mariette in Ecstasy
  3. Ronald Johnson – The Book of the Green Man
  4. Sue Monk Kidd – The Secret Life of Bees
  5. Jamaica Kincaid – Annie John
  6. Carole Maso – The American Woman in the Chinese Hat
  7. Lee Smith – Fair and Tender Ladies
  8. Jean Stafford – The Catherine Wheel
  9. Eudora Welty – The Golden Apples 
  10. Charles Wright – Appalachia