Over the last week or so I have been sharing books people have found helpful for them when they needed refuge from pain and problems.
One person found that refuge in writing her own book, and I guess there are other writers who would say the same.
Here is the list of those sanctuary books:
- A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis
- A monster calls – Patrick_Ness
- Answered Prayers – Truman Capote
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy Blume
- Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Fiction: Those Who Save Us – Jenna Blume
- Final Gifts – Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley
- Grief is the Thing with Feathers – Max Porter
- Half Wild – Sally Green
- Harmless Like You – Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
- High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- In the Body of the World – Eve Ensler
- Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
- It – Stephen King
- Jane Eyre – Chalotte Bronte
- Julius Verne
- Little Women – Louis May Alcott
- Lord of the Rings – Tolkien
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor Frankl.
- My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry – Arnold Adolf
- Peace From Broken Pieces – Iyanla Vanzant
- Stillness Speaks – Eckart Tolle
- Talisman – Stephen King and Peter Straub
- The Alchemist – Paul Coelho
- The Artist’s Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self – Julia Cameron
- The Awakening – Kate Chopin
- The Book of Joy – the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu
- The Case for Faith – Lee Strobel
- The Language of Letting Go – Melody Beattie
- The Life Of Pi – Yann Martel
- The Outlander Series – Diana Gabaldon
- The Razor’s Edge – W. Somerset Maugham
- The River Why – David James Duncan
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
- Twilight series – Stephenie Meyer
Lois Elsden 