Agree with most of the choices listed, will not claim to have them all. Agree with- anything James Herriot wrote. Having been to Yorkshire makes it easy to picture the stories. Anyone who likes Arthur and Merlin, might check out a series by Jack Whyte "A Dream of Eagles" there are five books in the series, he puts quite a different slant on this story, and being a fan of Mary Stewarts for a long time I'm sorry to say Whyte's story is ,to me,a little more plausible. Sci-Fi Anne McCaffrey is my choice, especially Crystalsingers, Pern Series, the Pegasus has characters in it that I seem to remember from 'The Rowan'as if it's a prequel. Shakespeare seems to be on all lists. I saw Hamlet this year at Stratford in Ontario,I have seen, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, The Merchant, and a few others, have read most. Just to keep up with children's books try the Harry Potter series I think thay are good, I'm on book four. If it didn't take too much paper I'd print this thread and use it as my library list fo years to come.