Higher- we need to check out each other's book cases, I bet they are very similar!
Where the Red Fern Grows was my fave book when I was young and I read it to my dau a couple yrs ago and re-loved it. And thanks to a friend who turned me onto him a few yrs ago I love Augusten Burroughs, too.

I really like Douglas Coupland and I read a lot of biographies.

A Painted House by John Grisham. Which is weird cause I don't like his other stuff.

My other fave book from when I was a kid- Island of the Blue Dolphins