C. S. Lewis
The Woman in White
Some days you battle yourself and other monsters. Some days you just make soup.
Wilkie Collins
A town like Alice
Nevil Shute
Heavy Weather
Some days you battle yourself and other monsters. Some days you just make soup.
Bruce Sterling
The handmaid's tale
Margaret Atwood
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Some days you battle yourself and other monsters. Some days you just make soup.
James Herriott
Watership Down
Richard Adams
The Borrowed House
Some days you battle yourself and other monsters. Some days you just make soup.
Hilda van Stockum
The Silver Sword
We have hands that fashion and heads that know,
But our hearts we lost - how long ago! -- G. K. Chesterton
Ian Serraillier
The shiralee
D'Arcy Niland
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Some days you battle yourself and other monsters. Some days you just make soup.
Patricia A McKillip
Mythical beasties
It appears to be a collection of short stories, but the editors are Martin Harry Greenberg, Isaac Asimov, and Charles Gordon Waugh.
Framed (2005)
Some days you battle yourself and other monsters. Some days you just make soup.
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Flynn of the Inland
(@Valiant Archer: Yes, such a collection of short stories, where each story has a different author, would have to be put under the names of the editors. In the case of that particular collection, one of my all-time favourites, I usually remembered it as being edited by Isaac Asimov and forgot about the other two)
Ion Idriess
A Higher Call
(wagga, that is certainly true for citing the work. In non-academic settings, though, the "author" answer can become a bit squishier. Glad you enjoy the book so much!)
Some days you battle yourself and other monsters. Some days you just make soup.
Adam Makos
The wooden horse