How many truly favorite books can you list?

by Judy Alter


I have a friend, longtime English professor,who
maintains the measure of a book is whether or not generations to come will be
reading it a hundred years from now. His nomination is the late Benjamin Capps’
The Road to Ogallala.


Albert Payson Terhune &
one of his famous Collies


As a child, I had many favorite books as I
moved from age to age. As with many of my generation, my