Here are some of my favorties. They're like children though, really... I can't pick a favorite for fear it'll grow up with mommy issues and resent me forever in expensive therapy sessions.
- The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
- I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe
- I Know This Much is True, Wally Lamb
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
- The Hunger Games Trilogy, Suzzane Collins
- Harry Potter...
- Room, Emma Donoghue
- Lost and Found, Carolyn Parkhurst
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whittman
- Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld
- The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- Tiger Eyes, Judy Bloom (who DIDN'T read this book in high school?!)
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
- The Corrections, Jonathan Frantzen
- Lamb, Christopher Moore (a MUST-READ)
- The Things they Carried, Tim O'Brien
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
- The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- Sideways, Rex Picket
- Naked Economics
- Tuck, Everlasting, Emily Babbit
- The Ruins, Scott Smith
- Scar Tissue, Anthony Keidis
- Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts
- Little Children, Tom Perrotta
- A Good and Happy Child, Justin Evans
- The Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Brokeback Mountain, Anne Proulx
