Gentle Read Authors
A "gentle read" is a book that will please readers who want to escape the unpleasantness of life in their reading. While it is hard to ever predict when some will be offended by a word or situation, we offer these authors and titles as generally safe reading.
Wendell Berry - Hannah Coulter, Jayber Crow
Maeve Binchy - Whitethorn Woods
Elizabeth Cadell - The Marrying Kind , Game in Diamonds
Jennifer Chiaverini - Elm Creek Quilts series, beginning with The Quilter's Apprentice
Sandra Dallas - Alice's Tulips
Tony Earley - Jim the Boy
Clyde Edgerton - Walking Across Egypt
Paul Gallico - Mrs. 'Arris series, including Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Moscow
Kaye Gibbons - Charms for the Easy Life
Dorothy Gilman - Mrs. Pollifax series, including Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
Goudge, Elizabeth - The Dean's Watch , The Scent of Water
Gulley, Philip - Home to Harmony
Jon Hassler - A Green Journey
James Hilton - Good-bye, Mr. Chips (PB)
Eva Ibbotson - A Song for Summer
Jan Karon - The Mitford Years series, including A Light in the Window
Terry Kay - To Dance with the White Dog
Catherine Marshall - Christy
Peter Mayle - A Good Year
A. McCall Smith - 44 Scotland Street (M)
Joan Medlicott - Ladies of Covington Send Their Love (PB)
Whitney Otto - How to Make an American Quilt
Linda Nichols - Handyman
Rosamunde Pilcher - Winter Solstice
James Michael Pratt - The Lighthouse Keeper (PB)
Eugenia Price - Stranger in Savannah
Barbara Pym - Excellent Women (LT)
Jeanne Ray - Step-Ball-Change
Miss Read - Thrush Green series, including Thrush Green
Nicholas Sparks - A Walk to Remember
LaVyrle Spencer - Morning Glory (LT)
D. E. Stevenson - Mrs. Tim Gets a Job
Angela Thirkell - Love Among the Ruins
Eudora Welty - The Optimist's Daughter
Effie Leland Wilder - Out to Pasture
M = Mystery
PB = Paperback
LT = Large Type
Nancy Long, Thomas Ford Memorial Library, February 2008
