Compiled by Amy Hanson
Featuring strong women, no explicit sex, and marriage is not a primary goal in life. Suggestions compiled fromThe Feminist Cabal.
Good info:
Chinaberry Catalogue. If you’re looking for books for kids, this is a treasure — and it’s a free quarterly publication. It runs to over 100 full-size (8 1/2 x 11) pages of book reviews, carefully divided up by age levels and topics. And I mean real reviews, not just a line or two. Typically a review runs at least afull column, often with good clear photos (black and white) of the book’s cover. Lots of information from the reviewers — who are not professional critics, but customers — about how their kids and grandkids reacted to the book in question. You can get the Chinaberry Catalogue from 2780 Via Orange Way, Suite B, Spring Valley CA 91978; the 800 number is 800-776-2242; customers not in the U.S. would call 619-670-5203.
The books
(* means that several people mentioned this book or author)
- Alcott, Louisa May: LITTLE WOMEN
- Alexander, Lloyd: PRYDAIN CHRONICLES
- Asimov, Isaac: THE FOUNDATION trilogy
- *Austen, Jane
- Baldry, Cherith
- Baum, L. Frank: THE WIZARD OF OZ and 13 other OZ books
- *Beagle, Peter S.: THE LAST UNICORN
- Beagle, Peter S.: A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE
- Bell, Clare
- Block, Francesca Lia: WITCH BABY
- Brackett, Leigh
- Bradbury, Ray
- Brust: THE PHOENIX GUARDS
- Brust: FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER
- Bujold, Lois McMaster
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson: THE SECRET GARDEN
- Burnett: THE LITTLE PRINCESS
- Busby, F.M.: RISSA KERGUELEN
- Canfield-Fisher, Dorothy: UNDERSTOOD BETSY
- *Carroll, Lewis: ALICE IN WONDERLAND
- Charnas, Suzy McKee: THE BRONZE KING
- Charnas, Suzy McKee: THE SILVER GLOVE
- Charnas, Suzy McKee: THE GOLDEN THREAD
- Charnas, Suzy McKee: THE KINGDOM OF KEVIN MALONE
- Christie, Agatha
- Clarke, Arthur C.: good short stories
- Clarke, Arthur: RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA
- Clayton, Jo
- Clement, Hal: MISSION OF GRAVITY
- Clement, Hal: NEEDLE
- Cooper, Susan: OVER SEA, UNDER STONE
- Dalkey, Kara
- Dean, Pamela: THE SECRET COUNTRY
- Dean, Pamela: THE HIDDEN LAND
- Dean, Pamela: THE WHIM OF THE DRAGON
- DeLint, Charles: RIDDLE OF THE WREN
- Dickens, Charles
- Dickinson, Peter: THE CHANGES books
- Downer, Ann
- *Duane, Diane: SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD
- Duane, Diane: DEEP WIZARDRY
- Duane, Diane: HIGH WIZARDRY
- Duane, Diane: A WIZARD ABROAD
- Dumas, Alexandre
- Dunsany, Lord: BEYOND THE FIELDS THAT WE KNOW
- Durrell, Gerald: MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS
- Durrell, Gerald: ROSY IS MY RELATIVE
- Eager, Edward: HALF MAGIC
- Elgin, Suzette Haden: OZARK trilogy
- Elliott, George: THE KISSING MAN
- Engdahl, Sylvia Louise
- Fitzhugh, Louise: HARRIET THE SPY
- Ford, John M: GROWING UP WEIGHTLESS
- Forester, C.S.: HORNBLOWER books
- *Furlong, Monica: WISE CHILD
- *Furlong, Monica: JUNIPER
- Gallico, Paul: THE MAN WHO WAS MAGIC
- Garner, Alan: ELIDOR
- Garner, Alan: THE OWL SERVICE
- Garner, Alan: THE WEIRDSTONE OF BRISINGHAMEN
- Gentle, Mary: A HAWK IN SILVER
- Godden, Rumer: AN EPISODE OF SPARROWS
- Goldman, William: THE PRINCESS BRIDE
- Grey, Nicholas Stuart: GRIMBOLD’S OTHER WORLD
- Halam, Ann: DAYBREAKER trilogy (it’s EARTHSEA for girls)
- Heinlein, Robert: THE STAR BEAST
- *Henderson, Zenna: People stories
- Hoffman, Nina Kirikki: THE SILENT STRENGTH OF STONES
- Hoover, H.M.: CHILDREN OF MORROW
- Hoover, H.M.: WINDS OF MARS
- Jaques, Brian: REDWALL
- Jones, Diana Wynne
- Kagan, Janet: Mirable stories
- Kendall, Carol: THE GAMMAGE CUP
- Kress, Nancy: BEGGARS IN SPAIN series
- Lee, Harper: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
- *L’Engle, Madeleine: A WRINKLE IN TIME
- LeGuin, Ursula: EARTHSEA trilogy, starts with A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA
- *Lewis, C.S.: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE/Narnia books
- Lewis, C.S.: OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET trilogy
- Linklater, Eric: THE WIND ON THE MOON
- Mac Avoy, Roberta: THE THIRD EAGLE
- Mac Avoy, Roberta: TEA WITH THE BLACK DRAGON
- Mac Avoy, Roberta: DAMIANO trilogy
- MacDonald, John D: THE GIRL, THE GOLD WATCH, AND EVERYTHING
- MacDonald, George: THE LIGHT PRINCESS
- Maguire, Greg: I FELL LIKE THE MORNING STAR
- Maguire, Greg: OASIS
- Maguire, Greg: MISSING SISTERS
- Maguire, Greg: SEVEN SPIDERS SPINNING
- Malot, Henri Hector: NOBODY’S GIRL
- Marsh, Ngaio: mystery books
- May, Julian: MANY-COLOURED LAND series
- McIntyre, Vonda: BARBARY
- McKillip, Patricia
- McKinley, Robin: THE HERO AND THE CROWN
- McKinley, Robin: THE BLUE SWORD
- McKinley, Robin: anything except Deerskin
- Moon, Elizabeth
- Moore, C.L.
- Mowat, Farley: THE DOG WHO WOULDN’T BE
- M’Tana, Zelde
- Nesbit, A.E.
- Nesbit, E.: FIVE CHILDREN AND IT
- *Norton, Andre: good juveniles
- O’Dell, Scott: ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS
- Panshin, Alexei: RITE OF PASSAGE (a rebuttal to Heinlein’s sexist Podkayne of Mars)
- Panshin, Alexei: THE STAR WELL
- Panshin, Alexei: THE THURB REVOLUTION
- Panshin, Alexei: MASQUE WORLD
- Peters, Ellis: CADFAEL BOOKS
- Pierce, Tamora: ALANNA AND DAIN series
- Pierce, Tamora: LIONESS RAMPANT series
- Pinkwater, Daniel: THE SNARKOUT BOYS AND THE AVOCADO OF DEATH
- Pinkwater, Daniel: THE SNARKOUT BOYS AND THE BACONBURG
HORROR
- Pinkwater, Daniel: ALAN MENDELSOHN, THE BOY FROM MARS
- Platt, Kin: THE BOY WHO COULD MAKE HIMSELF DISAPPEAR
- Pullman: GOLDEN COMPASS
- Queen, Ellery: mysteries
- Ransome, Arthur: SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS
- Sawyer, Ruth: ROLLER SKATES
- Schmitz, James H: THE WITCHES OF KARRES
- Sherman, Delia: THROUGH A BRAZEN MIRROR
- Smith, Cordwainer
- Smith, Dodie: I CAPTURE THE CASTLE
- * Smith, Sherwood: good juveniles
- Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
- Springer, Nancy: THE HEX WITCH OF SELDOM
- STAR WARS YOUNG ADULT books
- Stevermer, Caroline: RIVER RATS
- Sturgeon, Theodore
- Thurber, James: FABLES FOR OUR TIME
- Thurber, James: FURTHER FABLES FOR OUR TIME
- Thurber, James: THE NIGHT THE BED FELL ON FATHER
- Thurber, James: THE THIRTEEN CLOCKS
- Thurber, James: THE WHITE DEER
- Tolkien, J. R. R.: THE HOBBIT
- Tripod, John Christopher
- *White, T.H: MISTRESS MASHAM’S REPOSE (one of the best kid’s books ever written)
- White, T.H.: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
- White, T.H.: THE SWORD AND THE STONE
- Wilder, Cherry: A PRINCESS OF THE CHAMELN
- Wilder, Cherry: YORATH THE WOLF
- Wilder, Cherry: THE SUMMER’S KING
- Wilder, Cherry: THE LUCK OF BRIN’S FIVE
- Windling, Terri and Mark Arnold (eds): BORDERLAND/BORDERTOWN anthology
- *Wrede, Patricia: TALKING TO DRAGONS
- Yolen, Jane: THE RED, GREEN, BLUE FAIRY TALE BOOKS (edited by Andrew Lang)
