Great Books/Authors


I love these books and authors! This list is incomplete, but it's a 
start. Have recommendations? Click on the email link on the sidebar 
and let me know.

The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
Grendel, John Gardner
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Of Mice & Men, John Steinbeck
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (series), Frank L. Baum
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter (series), J.K. Rowling
A Day No Pigs Would Die, Richard Peck
The Bone Collector, (and other books) Jeffrey Deaver
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (& any of her works)
Walk Two Moons & Love that Dog, Sharon Creech
The Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Patterson
Beauty, (and other books) Robin McKinley
Bitten, (and other books) Kelly Armstrong
The Uglies & Midnighters series, (and other books) Scott Westerfeld
Artemis Fowl serie), Eoin Colfer
The DaVinci Code, (and other books) Dan Brown
A Time to Kill, (and other books) John Grisham
Guilty Pleasures, (and other books) Laurell K. Hamilton
Farenheit 451, (and other works) Ray Bradbury
1984, George Orwell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Hamlet, (and other plays) William Shakespeare
A Spell for Chameleon, (and all Xanth novels) Piers Anthony
Eragon & Eldest & Brisingr, Christopher Paolini
Poetry by Robert Frost
Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
Nancy Drew novels, Carolyn Keene (research this psuedonym!)
The Dark Hills Divide series Patrick Carman
Silverfin (Young James Bond series) Charlie Higson
The Dark Pond, Joseph Bruchac
The Naked Mole-Rat Letters, Mary Amato
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians series) Rick Riordan
A Heart Divided, Cherie Bennett
Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli
Holes, Louis Sachar
Ella Enchanged, Gail Levine
The Giver, Lois Lowry
The Icarus Girl, Helen Oyeyemi
Breathing Underwater, Alex Flinn
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer
Keys to the Kingdom series, Garth Nix
Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand (nonfiction- EXCELLENT)
The Adventures Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Night, Elie Wiesel (nonfinction)
Small Town Grocery, Kim McGehee (nonfiction, local writer)
Lord of the Flies, William Golding