As an appendix to her powerful story – Tell The Wolves I’m Home – Carol Rifka Brunt includes “A Conversation with Elin Hilderbrand…”  In her interview the well-known author of Beautiful Day, Barefoot, and others set on Nantucket Island, Elin Hilderbrand asks Brunt to note her favorite authors and books.  The list includes a  a few of my favorites:

• Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

and a few for my TBR list:

• Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
•  Skellig by David Almond
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff