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There are lots of favorites listed here, but The Great Gatsby is my favorite one of all.


My favorite books are listed below, organized by genre and author. When possible, they are linked to my blog review for them.

Classics:

 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton


Young Adult/Middle Grades:

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 
Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Me & Earl & The Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews 
Munmun by Jesse Andrews
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore (Graceling Trilogy)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos
The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo
Zebra Forest by Adina Rishe Gewirtz
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
The Good Sister by Jamie Kain
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Cress Watercress by Gregory Maguire
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Pony by R.J. Palacio  
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell**
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
The Hideaway by Pam Smy
The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy by Anne Ursu
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak


Nonfiction:

I Will Always Write Back by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda with Liz Welch
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I've Ever Had by Tony Danza
Readicide by Kelly Gallagher
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Radioactive by Lauren Redniss
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides 


Literary Fiction:

The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
The Bear by Andrew Krivak
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson


Science Fiction/Fantasy:

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 
Piranesi by Susana Clarke
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern


Graphic Novels:

Another Kind by Cait May and Trevor Bream
When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
The Secret Garden on 81st Street by Ivy Noelle Weir and Amber Padilla



**This novel has not aged well and contains several passages that are insensitive towards people of Asian descent. While I treasure my first experience reading Eleanor and Park and appreciate many aspects of the story, I can no longer recommend it to others.

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2024 at 12:48 AM

    I think you would like Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright. Try it!

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