read the favorite books of each of my closest friends

I read 1984, and I also read Wait Till Helen Comes, The BFG, and Eat Pray Love. Eat Pray Love was not on the original list, but it was my mom’s new favorite, replacing My Sister’s Keeper.

So that’s 4 of the 13. 2 of them were children’s books, but if that’s what my friends pick, well, that’s what they pick.

I’m going to ask my sister for an updated choice even though she doesn’t really read. She’s only 15 so maybe she’s read something since I asked over a year ago that she likes better.

1. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
3. Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
4. Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
5. The Year Of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty
6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
7. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
8. The BFG by Roald Dahl
9. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Larihri
10. 1984 by George Orwell
11. The Paradise War, Silver Hand, and The Endless Knot by Stephen R. Lawhead
12. The Princess Bride by William Goldman

I have selected 13 people that I would like to solicit book selections from and emailed each of them with my request. It may not be soon that I start actually reading them, but it is my first bit of progress.