Books That Changed Me

It’s pure magic when a book lingers with you long after you read it. I offer three or four of those top reads on the first day of a new season. Scroll down and find your next read. This list is from 2018-2025.

(Listed in no particular order)

2025 Winter Edition:

Beyond the Fetters By Balroop Singh

The Weight of Snow and Regret By Elizabeth Gauffreau

Edge of Twilight: Legends of Madeira By Joan Hall

Amanda in Ireland: The Body in the Bog By Darlene Foster

2025 Fall Edition:

Daniel Boone and Me By Noelle A Granger

A Bold Bargain (The Bargainer Series Book 3) by Jan Sikes

Sanctum: Dragon Guild Book 1 By P.T.L. Perrin

Ancient Voices: Poems About Ancient Egypt By Dawn Pisturino

2025 Summer Edition:

Reuben Hayes By S. Cox

Badlands (Savage Land #2) By Jacqui Murray

Weeping Boughs Don’t Break By Staci Troilo

2025 Spring Edition:

2024 Winter Edition:

Blood Red Dawn: Legends of Madeira Book Two By Joan Hall

Born for Revenge By Staci Troilo

A Noble Bargain By Jan Sikes

Wildwood Healer: A Novel By Linda Broday

Cora’s Quest By Lauren ScottChris Mendez (illustrator)

2024 Fall Edition:

The Last Pilgrim by Noelle Granger

Mateo’s Woman by Sandra Cox 

And the Grave Awaits by Roberta Eaton Cheadle

Karma Doesn’t Kill by Yvette M Calleiro

2024 Summer Edition:

2024 Spring Edition:

The Keeping Place by Mae Clair

A Beggar’s Bargain by Jan Sikes

Sheriff Tyree by Sandra Cox

2023  Winter Edition:

Twenty-Four Days Rowe-Delamagente #2 By J. Murray

Menagerie By Joan Hall

Tales from the Irish Garden By Sally Cronin

Neema the Misfit Giraffe By Robbie Cheadle and Michael Cheadle

2023 Fall Edition:

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE SWAMP BY C.S. BOYACK

RETURN TO SILVERHILLS BY SANDRA COX

THE LAST DRIVE BY JOHN W. HOWELL

2023 Summer Edition:

Restless Mayhem (The Mayhem Series Book 6) By Sue Coletta

Metamorphosis The Breach Chronicles #2 By Ivy Logan

Letting Go- The Defiant Sisters Book 1 By Jacquie Biggar

Lion Scream: Syllabic Poetry About Southern African Wildlife By Robbie Cheadle

2023 Spring Edition:

Redemption: A Father’s Fatal Decision By Gwendolyn M. Plano

The Clock in My Mother’s House and other stories By Annalisa Crawford

The Bubble Reputation By Alex Craigie

Amanda in France: Fire in the Cathedral (An Amanda Travels Adventure Book 9) by Darlene Foster

2022 Winter Edition:

Fairies, Myths, & Magic II: Book 2: A Winter Celebration By Colleen M. Chesebro

Saddled Heart (The White Rune Series Book 3)By Jan Sikes

Geller’s Find By Sandra Cox

Hope’s Angel By Linda Broday

2022 Fall Edition:

2022 SUMMER EDITION:

Old Mountain Cassie: The Three Lessons by Tonya Penrose

Someone Close to Home by Alex Craigie

Hues Of Hope: Selected Poetry by Balroop Singh

Following the Green Rabbit: a fantastical adventure by Chris Hall

2022 SPRING EDITION:

HYPE by Yvette M. Calleiro

Things Old and Forgotten by Mae Clair

Flashes of Life: True Tales of the Extraordinary Ordinary by Pamela Wight

2021 WINTER EDITION:

Cold Dark Night by Joan Hall

Love, Me: A Christmas Wish Novel by Jacquie Biggar

Mateo’s Law By Sandra Cox

Mountain Laurel Christmas by Jan Sikes

2021 FALL EDITION:

The Ferryman and the Sea Witch by D. Wallace Peach

Dragon Hoard and Other Tales of Faerie by Cathleen Townsend

The Culmination: a new beginning by Gwen M. Plano

2021 SUMMER EDITION:

THE VANISHED BOY by Harmony Kent

THE CURSE OF DEAD HORSE CANYON: CHEYENNE SPIRITS (DEAD HORSE CANYON #1)by Marcha A. Fox and Pete Risingsun

GRINDERS by C.S. Boyack

MYRTLE THE PURPLE TURTLE by Cynthia Reyes

2021 SPRING EDITION:

EVENTIDE (HODE’S HILL #3)by Mae Clair

SUBJECT A36 (THE COLONY #1) by Teri Polen

Life is Like a Bowl of Cherries: Sometimes Bitter, Sometimes Sweet by Sally Cronin

Satin & Cinders by Jan Sikes

2020 WINTER EDITION:

MAGICAL WHISPERS by Balroop Singh

LIARS AND THIEVES by D. Wallace Peach

ETERNAL ROAD: THE FINAL STOP by John W. Howell

MISTLETOE INN by Jacquie Biggar

2020 FALL EDITION:

Guns of Perdition (The Armageddon Showdown Book 1) by Jessica Bakkers

A Boy Named Rabbit (Wake-Robin Ridge #2) by Marcia Meara

Finding Katie by Harmony Kent

2020 SUMMER EDITION:

Neon Houses by Linda C. Mims​

The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles: Book 2, Finding Billy Battles Trilogy  by Ronald E. Yates

Spirit of the Book by D.E. Howard

 Fairies, Myths, & Magic: A Summer Celebration By Colleen M. Chesebro

2020 SPRING EDITION:

My Maine: Haiku through the Seasons by Bette A. Stevens

NO PEDIGREE: A Really Short Story by Nonnie Jules

Our Lady of Victory: The Saga Of An African-American Catholic Community by Shirley Harris Slaughter

2019 WINTER EDITION:

Shadowed by Death: An Oliver Wright WW II Mystery (Oliver Wright WW II Mystery Book 2) By Mary Adler

Empty Chairs by Stacey Danson

Survival of the Fittest (the Crossroads Trilogy Book 1) by Jacqui Murray

Food for Poe by Mae Clair

2019 FALL EDITION:

Vanished By Mark Bierman

Silverhills by Sandra Cox

Atonement, Tennessee by Teagan Geneivene

2019 SUMMER EDITION:

Ninja School Mum  by Lizzie Chantree

There is a Reaper By Michael Lynes

2019 SPRING EDITION:

Son of the Serpent (Fantasy Angel #2) by Vashti Quiroz-Vega

Voyage of the Lanternfish  by C.S. Boyack

DOG BONE SOUP (Historical Fiction): A Boomer’s Journey  by Bette Stevens

2018 WINTER EDITION: 

The Terra Debacle: Prisoners at Area 51 (Star Trails TetralogyBy Marcha A Fox

Jazz Baby  By Beem Weeks

A Thousand Yesteryears (Point Pleasant) by Mae Clair

Daisy, Bold & Beautiful  by Ellie Collins

2018 FALL EDITION: 

Hexborn (The Hexborn Chronicles Book 1) by A.M. Manay

LOVE The Beat Goes On  by Lynda Filler

Into Winter: The Armed Invasion (The Four Seasons Book 3)  by Larry Landgraf

I’ve Always Loved Women  by Rhani D’Chae

2018 SUMMER EDITION: 

Outshine: An Ovarian Cancer Memoir  by Karen Ingalls

Tails (Silver Wishes Book 1)  by WJ Scott  (Author), John Helle Nielsen (Illustrator), Belinda Mellor (Editor)

Circumstances of Childhood  by John W. Howell

The Alternative  by Suzanne Burke

2018 SPRING EDITION:

Letting Go into Perfect Love, Discovering the Extraordinary After Abuse by Gwendolyn M. Plano

The Convict and the Rose (Flowers and Stone #2 ) by Jan Sikes

The One Discovered (Chronicles of the Diasodz Book 1)  by Yvette M Calleiro