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	Name: Janet Muirhead Hill
	City & State: Norris, Montana
	Vocation / Avocation: Writer/publisher
	Website: www.janetmuirheadhill.com

Why I'm a Habitual Reader:

It's my sister's fault. She read fascinating novels to me before I was old enough to go to school and learn to read myself. She keeps telling me about another great book I don't want to miss. Now I cannot even think of going to sleep each night without reading good fiction first.

My List of Ten: Unforgettable Books

1. My Half of the Sky
Author: Jana McBurney-Lin
It made me feel at home in China, a place I've never been.

2. Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Gripping/heartwrenching in its humanity.

3. Ordinary Wolves
Author: Seth Kantner
His beautiful use of language carried me into his world, making me part of it.

4. Absaroka
Author: Joan Bochmann
A well-told story with well-drawn characters took me into a familiar life and time in a drama I couldn't put down.

5. Eating Heaven
Author: Jennie Shortridge
Funny and sad and real and delightful.

6. A Prayer for Owen Meany
Author: John Irving
Poignant, a book I'll never forget.

7. A Clearing in the Wild
Author: Jane Kirkpatrick
Historical fiction; gripping and true to life. I traveled and travailed with the young protagonist.

8. An Inmate's Daughter
Author: Jan Walker
With an economy of words, the author put me in the very heart and life of a young girl with a secret she's not allowed to tell.

9. The Poisonwood Bible
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
And every other book she's written. A master at bringing life in other cultures and important issues to life.

10. Useful Girl
Author: Marcus Stevens
It blends two time periods and two cultures in an authentic and suspenseful story that makes one think.

Have you read any of these titles? Review one now.

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