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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.

May 24, 2025

As part of #Sonderbooks25, I reread one of my all-time favorites in audio form: The Blue Sword, by Robin McKinley, read by Diane Warren, is still full of magic, adventure, romance - and horses.

Happy Reading!

—Sondra Eklund




Nonfiction
The Alpine Path
The Alpine Path
by L. M. Montgomery

Hearing Heart
Hearing Heart
by Hannah Hurnard

All Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot

Raising Demons
by Shirley Jackson



Fiction
Watership Down
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
read by Peter Capaldi

The Sand-Reckoner
The Sand-Reckoner
by Gillian Bradshaw

Imperial Purple
by Gillian Bradshaw

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte



Children's Fiction
Magic for Marigold
Magic for Marigold
by L. M. Montgomery

The Golden Road
The Golden Road
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

The Poppy Seed Cakes
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

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
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

The Story Girl
by L. M. Montgomery

Black and Blue Magic
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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