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	Name: Sue Ann Jaffarian
	City & State: Los Angeles, California
	Vocation / Avocation: Novelist with a day job as a paralegal

Why I'm a Habitual Reader:

As a habitual reader, my need to learn, to be entertained, to be thrilled, to sometimes escape, are all fulfilled by reading. It's a total saturation of the mind with no commercial interruptions.

As a writer, reading both good and not-so-good books teaches me style and formatting of plot and character that no amount of classroom time could ever teach me.

Along that same line, I think one of the best and most on-target quotes for writers was one from Stephen King's book "On Writing:" "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write."

My List of Ten: Books I've Never Forgotten

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee
My absolute favorite novel of all time. It made me want to be a writer.

2. Roots
Author: Alex Haley
It mesmerized me and still does. Incredible writing and story.

3. Gone With the Wind
Author: Margaret Mitchell
My first epic read and I wallowed with delight in every page and have read it 3 times.

4. Murder Runs In The Family
Author: Anne George
Convinced me to write humorous mysteries.

5. The Godfather
Author: Mario Puzo
Should be on everyone's favorite fiction list.

6. Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
Forced to read it in school, it was the book that turned me onto the classics, particularly Dickens and Dumas.

7. Outlander
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Turned me onto Gabaldon's delightful and detailed historical series.

8. Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders
Author: Alicia Gaspar De Alba
Favorite book of 2006

9. The Chronicles of Narnia (the whole set)
Author: C. S. Lewis
I'm not much into fantasy, but these I adore and have read several times over the past 30 years.

10. Too Big To Miss
Author: Sue Ann Jaffarian
My very first published novel and the book that fullfilled my dream of becoming a published author. How could it not be on my Top 10 List?!

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