A handful of books that altered my life*: ¨ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis ¨ Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell ¨ To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee ¨ War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy ¨ Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry ¨ Traveling Mercies – Anne Lamott ¨ The Good Earth – Pearl Buck ¨ Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier ¨ The Women’s Room – Marilyn French ¨ Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck And a nod to some of my favorite writers not on the list above: Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Berg, Amy Tan, Willa Cather. *Of course there are many more books that enriched and changed my life view - these are just the first that come to mind. Only two of these books I've recently read; the others I read many years ago but the essence still lingers in my DNA.