List Fifteen - 25 Books I Wish I Hadn't Read Yet

Would you agree there's something special about your favorite books?  They're like friends, really.  I can't stand to finish a book that I have loved because I fear I'll miss the people so much.  (I'm not good with good-byes.)

It's been a while since I have fallen in love with a book, and that got me thinking.  I began to ponder   how much fun it is to be in the middle of a wonderful book; how grand it is to be surprised and entertained by something new.  Then I began to think back about books that "I wish I could read again - for the FIRST time."  I don't mean that I'd like to read them again - maybe I would, but that's a completely different thing - that's not nearly as special.

These are a few of the books I wish I had yet to read . . .

1. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
2. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
3. To Dance with the White Dog by Terry Kay
4. Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
7. Dark of the Moon by Janice Daugharty
8. Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
9. Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
10. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
11. One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty
12. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
13. The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
14. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
15. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
16. Traveling Mercies:  Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
17. Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress
18. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
19. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
20. Leaving Church - A Memoir of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor
21. Having Our Say:  The Delaney Sisters First 100 Years by Sarah Delaney
22. Run with the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams
23. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
24. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
25. A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel

What's on your list?