My Literary DNA, Unsequenced

Prose

• "Who Speaks for Earth", Carl Sagan
• "Just Like Heaven", Paul Ford
• Arcadia, Tom Stoppard
• Travels with Charley: In Search of America, John Steinbeck
• The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
• Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman
• Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell, Susannah Clarke
• The Dark is Rising sequence, Susan Cooper
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
• Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
• The Emily novels, L.M. Montgomery
• Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos
• Love Begins in Winter, Simon Van Booy
• The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff
• The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Circe, Madeline Miller

Poetry

• (An ongoing collection)
• "Failing and Flying", Jack Gilbert
• "Wild Geese", Mary Oliver
• "Poppies", Mary Oliver
• "The Testing-Tree", Stanley Kunitz
• "If You Forget Me / Si Tu M'Oublies", Pablo Neruda
• "Storm Warnings", Adrienne Rich
• "House", Pablo Neruda
• "The Laughing Heart", Charles Bukowski
• "Ode to the Sea / Ode à la mer", Pablo Neruda
• "Ode to Things", Pablo Neruda
• "Birches", Robert Frost