Debbie Hindman's Top Five of All Time

Debbie Hindman (Sustainable Residential Interiors) inspires architects, decorators and contractors to make beautifully responsible design decisions. She finds her own inspiration in contemporary literature.

1. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn


2. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd


3. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver


4. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson


5. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
   

Sandy Fuller's Top Five of All Time

Sandy Ferguson Fuller (Moon Loon) is an author, illustrator, bookseller and literary agent specializing in children's books. After a month-long working getaway to Maine, she'll return tomorrow with news of several new books for 2010. Welcome back, Sandy!

1. A Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett


2. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


3. Winne-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne


4. A Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh


5. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Brunonia Barry's Top Five of All Time

Brunonia Barry (The Lace Reader) hit The Bookworm best seller list following our lovely dinner event with her on September 15 at Rick and Kelly's American Bistro in Edwards. We are thrilled to call this debut novelist a friend!

1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville


2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain


3. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust


4. Ulysses by James Joyce


5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mari Pintowski's Top Five of All Time

Mari Pintowski (Embarking on the Mariposa Trail) spent most of her life teaching the youngest students in the Vail Valley. Now she runs an elegant B&B in Mexico, but will return to Edwards in October to launch her new children's book, Molly the Gecko Hunter. Welcome back, Moe!

1. Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox


2. The Napping House by Audry Wood


3. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


4. The Lost World of Quintana Roo by Michael Pissel


5. All of Jodi Picult's books

Jennifer Junto's Top Five of All Time

Jennifer Junto (Claire the Chair) teaches art at Battle Mountain High School. I visited the brand new facilities at BMHS this week, and they are as spectacular as the district promised. So on the eve of a new school year, here's a teacher's list.

1. Owl Moon by Jane Yolen


2. The Bible


3. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown


4. Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol


5. Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen

Catherine O'Connell's Top Five of All Time

Catherine O'Connell (Well Read and Dead) is an Aspen author who writes about strange happenings in the the ritzy Rocky Mountain resort town where she lives.

1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell


2. The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille


3. Hawaii by James Michener


4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte


5. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth