Favourite Books and Other Print | Marilyn Anne Campbell

Favourite Novels and Poetry

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

This book was a landmark in my development as a young reader. It was the first time I recognized that if I liked one book by a certain author, I would probably enjoy their other books as well (next up was The Trumpet of the Swan). It was also the first book I remember reading that prompted me to consider the characters as actual individuals, and not just as character types. (Oh Templeton, are you the reason I love pet rats?)

Read about my long-standing error regarding the gender of E.B. White on my old blog.

Green Grass, Running Water by Tom King

Altering the linear nature of a narrative is commonplace in visual media, but in this novel King's method of telling is as playful as the story itself. Engrossing, socially relevant, chock full of cultural references and funny as hell this book is layered like few others.

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot

There's something addictive about the rhythm of J. Alfred's inner thoughts. His insecurities are so eloquently expressed it makes it all the more painful. Sure The Wasteland is impressive, but I consider Prufrock Eliot's masterpiece.

What I'm Reading Now

I've stopped using Goodreads to track my reading and moved over to the independently owned (and AI free) Pagebound.

I'm loving it so far, but it doesn't have a widget to show off what I'm reading here.

2026 is the first time I tried and failed) to read the five Canada Reads finalists before the competition. So my recent fiction reads are Searching for Terry Punchout by Tyler Hellard, Foe by Iain Reid, and A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt. I'm reading The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor right now (April 2026), with t's Different This Time by Joss Richard on hold at the library.

More Print Faves

The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Adams
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Illusions by Richard Bach
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Hunting With Hemingway by Hilary Hemingway and Jeffry P. Lindsay
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles by Clem Martini
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
"The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert Service
The Shadow Club by Neal Shusterman
The Skinjacker Series by Neal Shusterman
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

... and just about everything by Neil Gaiman