Hannah Bomze's Favorite Books

a list by Peter, the avid reader who runs Flashlight Worthy

Hannah is my cousin, but 19 years younger than me and only 19 years old. So when I asked her to name her favorite books, I was pleasantly surprised to see how mature her choices were.

onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/Eat_Pray_Love_One_Womans_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0143038419'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/Eat_Pray_Love_One_Womans_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0143038419'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert Amazon readers say: "Like talking to a wise, very funny friend." "Brilliant writing about the minute-to-minute search for god." "Thought provoking for anyone at any age." "Like long afternoon chats with a cherished friend." onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/Eat_Pray_Love_One_Womans_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/Eat_Pray_Love_One_Womans_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0143038419'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 352 page paperback \|$8.50 \|1,571 reviews This book also appears on Eric Mueller's Favorite Books


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Glass_Castle');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/074324754X'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Glass_Castle');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/074324754X'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Amazon says: In "The Glass Castle," Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents -- Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's child-rearing style laissez-faire would be putting it mildly. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, their children were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets. Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family, from the embarrassing (using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants) to the horrific (being told, after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity, that sexual assault is a crime of perception; and being pimped by her father at a bar). onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Glass_Castle');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Glass_Castle');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/074324754X'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 288 page paperback \|$10.20 \|1,097 reviews This book also appears on Tina Nole's Favorite Books


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0375751513'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0375751513'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Amazon readers say: "Masterpiece that was written ahead of its time." "An excelent book that shows the high price of eternal youth." "Beautiful tragedy of the effects of callousness & hedonism." "What does the picture of your soul look like?" onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0375751513'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 304 page paperback \|$7.95 \|256 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/Notes_from_Underground');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/067973452X'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/Notes_from_Underground');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/067973452X'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky Amazon readers say: "The more times you read this the more you will see..." "Veracious analysis of the outcast." "A beautiful look at bitter-sweet redemption." "A dark seed from which many dark trees have grown." onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/Notes_from_Underground');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/Notes_from_Underground');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/067973452X'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 160 page paperback \|$9.56 \|131 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/On_the_Road');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0140042598'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/On_the_Road');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0140042598'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">On the Road by Jack Kerouac Amazon readers say: "Defining moment of the beat generation." "Nobody is as honest as Jack Kerouac." "A streaming, sensuous work of chaotic experience." "Genius for the restless sprit..." onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/On_the_Road');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/On_the_Road');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0140042598'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 320 page paperback \|$10.20 \|624 reviews This book also appears on: Ed Bomze's Favorite Fiction The Modern Library's 100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Soloist');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0679759263'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Soloist');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0679759263'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Soloist by Mark Salzman Amazon readers say: "This book beautifully captures an artist in transition." "Very profound and accomplished meditation on responsibility." "Splendidly written with a believable cast of characters." "A gifted writer moving toward more serious themes." onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Soloist');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Soloist');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0679759263'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 304 page paperback \|$10.40 \|58 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Sun_Also_Rises');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0743297334'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Sun_Also_Rises');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0743297334'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Amazon readers say: "My favorite Hemingway, I think." "The perfect, most welcoming, introduction to Hemingway." "A beautiful masculine romance of what seems to be & is not." "This early work is a fine example of Hemingway's superb style of prose." onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Sun_Also_Rises');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Hannah_Bomzes_Favorite_Books/The_Sun_Also_Rises');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0743297334'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 256 page paperback \|$10.20 \|460 reviews This book also appears on The Modern Library's 100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century