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

Jill Zimmerman Rutledge's Top Five of All Time

Jill Zimmerman Rutledge (Picture Perfect) hopes to someday relocate to the Vail Valley. In the meantime, she's an expert on body image and self confidence for girls in Evanston, Illinois.

1. Lad, A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune


2. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens


3. Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda


4. Personal History by Katharine Graham


5. Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty

Phil Jackson's Top Five of All Time

Phil Jackson (Sacred Hoops) will visit the Vail Valley in September for a fundraiser with the Swift Eagle Foundation. The former LA Laker coach was known to require reading for members of his teams, and this list resembles a syllabus of fine literature!

1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky


2. The Call of the Wild by Jack London


3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy


4. Moby Dick by Herman Melville


5. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Jim Steinberg's Top Five of All Time

Jim Steinberg (Colorado Scenic Byways) is a wonderful photographer and supporter of the arts in Colorado.

1. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
2. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. A Woman of Substance by Barbara Bradford Taylor
4. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Stand by Stephen King

Kim Barnes' Top Five of All Time

Kim Barnes (A Country Called Home) is off on a flyfishing trip before starting the school year as a writing professor at The University of Idaho. Her next novel will explore the lives of Americans residing in 1960s Saudi Arabia.

1. Sula by Toni Morrison


2. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway


3. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett


4. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy


5. A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews