 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I read this book for a college lit class ten years ago and find myself thinking about it nearly once a week: how the characters were alive, how the town felt when you walked down its street, how the end came out of nowhere and yet had been whispered on every page.
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 | My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.03 I fell in love with Potok when I read The Chosen, but My Name Is Asher Lev is the book I think about when I look into my sons' eyes, when I think of my mother, when I write stories for literary magazines and not my religious community. This book struck a nerve. I still see Asher looking up at his ceiling from his bed, working in his studio, at his first event. I miss him.
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 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $4.11 I loved all of this series but book five was so depressing, I thought I might not make it through six and seven. Then this one came along and I couldn't put it down. I read late into the night and then re-read half of it - YES HALF!
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 | Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle, Book 1) by Stephen R. Lawhead
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I read this book way back in Jr High, but the world of Lost Atlantis and the drama that unfolds still comes to mind often and stirs my creativity.
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 | House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Buy used from: $74.95 I read this book a few years ago after sinus surgery. The fact that I can remember it at all through the haze of medication is miraculous in itself. Allende's story is mesmerizing and I still find myself picking up the book and rereading passages that were beautiful and thought provoking.
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 | Fierce: A Memoir by Barbara Robinette Moss
Buy new: $20.52 / Used from: $3.67 I read this book this summer after meeting the author at a book festival. This is a personal memoir that lives up to its name. Barbara Robinette Moss shows no fear in examining her life. Her characters are both endearing and hateful; you feel the humidity of the south in her prose; you taste the tears and smell the terpentine. I think of her when I need strength.
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 | Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $0.09 I read this book seven years ago and recently ran across the movie version while channel surfing. With only seconds of the show in front of me I instantly recognized the book and made my husband go back. I had relived those scenes of conflict and struggle. I knew them as if I had lived them.
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