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