A Reader Asks

A Reader Asks Of the books that you’ve read Which ones were the best? Which ones caught your fancy? Which ones passed your test? Which ones made you laugh? Which ones made you cry? Which ones would you toss? Which ones would you buy? How about Little Women With Joe, Meg and the others, Or Lord of the Flies With the twins and the brothers. How was Gone with the Wind And Scarlet O’Hara, Or the Life and the Times Of the great Yogi Berra. Remember the girls In Fried Green Tomatoes, Or the wizard and Dorothy And the violent tornadoes. Great Expectations; Great Gatsby, Tom Sawyer; To Kill a Mockingbird; There’s a great lawyer Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; The Call of the Wild; Those were something to me. The Three Musketeers, The Count Monte Cristo, The cold Heart of Darkness, How long does your list go? Uncle Tom’s Cabin, How about Sherlock Holmes, Oliver Twist, Or Edgar Allan Poe’s poems. A Tale of Two Cities; The great Jungle Book; The Call of the Wild; Deserve more than a look. Last of the Mohicans, Perhaps Moby Dick, Then there’s Treasure Island, Go on, take your pick. Gulliver’s Travels, The quaint Scarlet Letter, A Christmas Carol, Could you find many better? The Red Badge of Courage, Now that was a downer. Have you read The Prince Or about the dog “Sounder”? Those some call classics But there are so many more; I love science fiction Though to some they’re a bore. CIA thrillers, A mystery or two; And sometimes in a pinch Any old book will do. I could go on On the books that I’ve read, But I’d like to stop here And hear your list instead.