My Keeper Shelf - What I've Read, Loved and Kept Through The Years - Books - http://maxpages.com/readersplace/The_Keeper

We've all done it. We pick up a book and wonder if it will live up to the hype. Everyone is raving about it on the internet; it's the hottest book this season. Everyone's taste is just a little bit different and ten readers will come up with ten different opinions. If we're lucky we'll enjoy the book; then again maybe not - we never know.
Then are those unexpected keepers - maybe a book you pick up at random if there's nothing else to choose from; or you pull the book off a shelf to make room for a newer one. You settle down for a few hours reading when you start to realize this book has something special, something you never expected to find in this ordinary-looking book.

THIS BOOK WILL BE A KEEPER!

Before I begin the list of my keepers, I have to say that I've heard that there are some readers out there who don't keep books - personally I've never met one but in some ways I envy them. I wish I could be just a little bit less sentimental about keeping some of those wonderful books I've read.

As of 09/21/08 I've updated the The Keeper Shelf page. I've deleted some authors as I have begun to purge my book collection - not that it means I'm cutting down on book or authors, it just means that I've added new authors to my keepers. Someday I'm going to do a "How'd That Book EVER Get Published" page as I've recently been reading some duds that received positive internet buzz: all they did was sting me.

MY KEEPERS - ALPHABETICALLY BY AUTHOR

ADAIR, CHERRY
Seducing Mr. Right
Take Me

ANDERSON, CATHERINE
Annie's Song
Cheyenne Amber

AUSTEN, JANE
Everything But P&P and EMMA are special

BALOGH, MARY
Every Word That Woman Has Written

BARNETT, JILL
Imagine

BENET, DEBORAH
Riptide

BROADRICK, ANNETTE
Everything

CANFIELD, SANDRA
Everything This Woman Has Written
Under Any Pseudonym

CARD, ORSON SCOTT
Ender's Game

CATES, KIMBERLY
Gather The Stars
Angel's Fall

CHASE, LORETTA
Everything She's Written (easy huh?)
Recent Rereads Were:
"Captives Of The Night"
"Lord Of Scoundrels" &
"The Last Hellion"

CRESSWELL, JASMINE
The Danewood Legacy
The Reluctant Viscountess
Traitor's Heir

DAVIS, JUSTINE
Lord of The Storm
The Skypirate

DAVIS, JUSTINE
All Her Categories, Too

DELINSKY, BARBARA
The Secret of The Stone
only Delinsky I've Kept - a HT

DOUGLASS, BILLIE
(see Barbara Delinsky)
Variation On a Theme

EDGHILL, ROSEMARY
Fleeting Fancy
enjoyed this Regency so much I had
to connect with a hardcover edition

EVANOVICH, JANET
One For The Money
(well, I've only read the first one so far)

FERRARELLA, MARIE
Everything

GARRATT, MARY
The Duchess of Asherwood

GARWOOD, JULIE
Gentle Warrior
Honor's Splendor
The Lion's Lady

GRACIE, ANNE
Tallie's Knight
lots of internet buzz about this new
Australian author; "Tallie's Knight"
wowed me and moved to the Keeper Shelf
even before I finished it!

HALSTON, CAROLE
Keys To Daniel's House

HAMLIN, DALLAS
Surrender To A Stranger
(this one cried out for a spin-off
but I don't think it was ever done)

HASTINGS, BROOKE
Reasonable Doubts

HATHAWAY, KATE
His Wedding Ring

HEATH, LORRAINE
Sweet Lullaby

HEYER, GEORGETTE
Everything; the mysteries less so though

HEYWOOD, PHILLIPA
The Cautious Heart

HILL, JUDITH
A Knight's Desire
(a real sleeper of a book; it wow'ed me!)
(needed a spin-off for the bad guy)

HINES, CHARLOTTE
The Earl's Fancy

HINGLE, METSY
Cheating here - read her via library, but now an
auto-buy author if she ever comes out with a new book

HOWARD, LINDA
Everything - Even The Early Ones

HUSTED, DARRELL
A Country Girl

JAMES, KRISTIN
A Very Special Favor
A Wedding Gift
Cutter's Lady
Satan's Angel

JOHNSTON, VELDA
The Frenchman

KAMADA, ANNALISE
A Banner Red And Gold

KEAST, KAREN
(see Sandra Canfield)
Everything - Every Book Is a Gem

KELLY, CARLA
Everything

KRAHN, BETINA
The Last Bachelor

KRENTZ, JAYNE ANN
Everything - But Have By No
Means Read All She's Written

KRINARD, SUSAN
Prince of Shadows

KURLAND, LYNN
Stardust of Yesterday

LAND, JON
The Ninth Dominion
love his Blayne McCracken stories
but am way behind in reading them

LANDIS, JILL MARIE
Day Dreamer ("my wife has exploded")

LANG, HEATHER
Thorn In My Side

LANGAN, RUTH
The Proper Miss Porter

LAW, SUSAN KAY
Heaven In West Texas (ghost/hr)
Journey Home

LORIN, AMII
Morgan Wade's Woman
Night Striker
(companion books)

LOVELACE, MERLINE
Auto-Buy Author - Everything

LOWELL, ELIZABETH
Everything

LYNN, LESLIE
The Rake's Redemption

MACOMBER, DEBBIE
A Season Of Angels
Morning Comes Softly

MANSFIELD, ELIZABETH
Everything

MATHER, ANNE
The Sanchez Tradition

McALLISTER, ANNE
Quicksilver Season

McCAMMON, ROBERT
They Thirst
(best vampire book ever!)

McNAUGHT, JUDITH
Double Standards

MEDEIROS, TERESA
Heather And Velvet

MICHAELS, BARBARA
Everything - But Have Lots
Yet To Be Read

MILLS, ANITA
Duel Of Hearts
The Duke's Double

NEVILLE, KATHERINE
The Eight

NORTH, HAILEY
Everything - a 2008 find for me

PALMER, DIANA
Update: I have started re-reading some of her
books - found they have not stood the test of
time so I've been selling off my collection.
Everything - A Sentimental-Favorite, Though
More Recent Books Aren't As Good
update: have started re-reading some of her
early Desires; maybe not keepers any longer

PELLICANE, PATRICIA
Creole Captive

PETERS, ELIZABETH
Everything! But Am Behind
On Her Books

PHILLIPS, SUSAN E.
Everything

POTTER, PATRICIA
Rainbow
this was a classic "sleeper" - read it
to get it off the shelf; ha! ended up a keeper

PUTNEY, MARY JO
The Controversial Countess
The Rogue And The Runaway
The Would-Be Widow

QUICK, AMANDA
Everything - But Earlier Titles Were
So Very Much Better Than Current Ones

RABE, SHEILA
All I Want For Christmas
(a feel-good, heart-warming holiday story)

REISSER, ANNE
All's Fair
The Captive Love

ROBERTS, NORA
Everything
Haven't Read a Bad Roberts - Ever

ROBB, J. D.
Everything

ROBB, JoAnn
(see JoAnn Ross)

RODGERS, M. J.
Dead Ringer
(another book which cried out for a
spin-off, heroine's brother)

ROSS, JoANN
Everything - some of her old
Raptures are dynamite! An
auto-buy author for me

RYAN, RACHEL
All Candlelight Ecstasies

SELLERS, ALEXANDRA
The Real Man

SETON, ANYA
Green Darkness
Katherine

SHANE, SANDI
(see Canfield)
Sweet Burning
(a classic older woman/younger man story)

ST. CLAIRE, ERIN
Two Alone

SMITH, DEBORAH
Rediscovered her in 2008 - awesome talent

SUSON, MARLENE
Desire's Command
(am way behind on reading her)

TAYLOR, JANELLE
Moondust And Madness
only book in this series I liked
only Taylor I've been able to finish

THACKER, SHELLY
Forever His (TT/Medieval)

WILLIAMS, CLAUDETTE
English Rose, Desert Moon
Fire And Desire

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