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Old Favorites

Old Favorites are reviews of books that I’ve read before and wanted to revisit. Most Old Favorites are especially well-loved books.

December 29, 2025

An Old Favorite, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, is a classic collection of intertwined stories about four Chinese immigrant mothers and their American daughters.

Happy Reading!

—Sondra Eklund




The Alpine Path
by L. M. Montgomery

Hearing Heart
by Hannah Hurnard

by James Herriot

Raising Demons
by Shirley Jackson



The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
read by Gwendoline Yeo

A Tangled Web
by L. M. Montgomery

by Richard Adams
read by Peter Capaldi

by Gillian Bradshaw

Imperial Purple
by Gillian Bradshaw

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte



Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine
read by Eden Riegel

Magic for Marigold
by L. M. Montgomery

The Secret of Terror Castle
by Robert Arthur

The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot
by Robert Arthur

The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy
by Robert Arthur

The Mystery of the Green Ghost
by Robert Arthur

The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure
by Robert Arthur

The Secret of Skeleton Island
by Robert Arthur

The Mystery of the Fiery Eye
by Robert Arthur

The Mystery of the Screaming Clock
by Robert Arthur

by Margery Clark
with illustrations by Maud and Miska Petersham

Over Sea, Under Stone
by Susan Cooper

The Dark Is Rising
by Susan Cooper

Greenwitch
by Susan Cooper

The Grey King
by Susan Cooper
performance by Richard Mitchley

Silver on the Tree
by Susan Cooper
read by Alex Jennings

by Alice Dalgleish
illustrated by Helen Sewell

A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
performance by the Author

Sawdust in His Shoes
by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

by L. M. Montgomery

by L. M. Montgomery
Black and Blue Magic
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
read by the Author