In no particular order, at all:
- The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
- One hundred years of solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- White Teeth, Zadie Smith
- Emma, Jane Austen
- Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis
- Anne of Green Gables, Rilla of Ingleside and the rest of the Anne of Green Gables series, L. M. Montgomery
- A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
- King Lear, William Shakespeare
- On Writing, Stephen King
- The House at Pooh Corner and anything Pooh, A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)
- The Holy Bible, God
- Harry Potter series including The Cursed Child and the Jim Kay Illustrated Edition, J.K. Rowling
- Matilda, Roald Dahl
- Pipi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard
- Frog and Toad Are Friends and the rest of the Frog and Toad series, Arnold Lobel
- The Giver, Lois Lowry
- Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
- Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
- The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
- Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
- Africans in America, Johnson, Smith, and WGBH Series Research Team
- Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen, Laurie Colwin
- Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr.
- Brand New Ancients, Kae Tempest
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
- After, Bruce Greyson, M.D.
- Orphaned Believers, Sara Billups
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Favorite Authors:
- Amy Tan
- Gwendolynn Brooks
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Lauren Child
- Roald Dahl
- William Shakespeare
- A.A. Milne
- L.M. Montgomery
- (Raina Telgemeier)
- Those Bronte sisters
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Haven Kimmel
Runners Up:
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Villette, Charlotte Bronte
- The Ruby Redfort series, Lauren Child
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- The Once and Future King, T. H. White
- Ramona and Her Father and Socks, Beverly Cleary
- The BFG, Roald Dahl
- The Cursed Child, Rowling and Tiffany
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, J.K. Rowling
- The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
- When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
- The Jesus Storybook BibleThe Jesus Storybook Bible
- Uncle Elephant and Mouse Tales, Arnold Lobel
- The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook
- The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Paul Zindel
- Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
- Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
- Adventures in Prayer, Catherine Marshall
- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- How to Train Your Dragon (series), Cressida Cowell
- China Survival Guide, Larry and Qin Herzberg
- Wonder, R.J. Palacio
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy (with the prequel, The Hobbit), J.R.R. Tolkein
- One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, Geraldine McCaughrean
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, Maria Semple
- The Wheel on the School, Meindert DeJong
- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham
- We Were Liars, E. Lockhart
- (Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen)
- (I Think You’re Wrong (But I’m Listening), Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers)
- Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Notes on a Nervous Planet, Matt Haig
- (Born a Crime, Trevor Noah)
- (Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
- Little Worlds (anthology), Peter Guthrie and Mary Page
- The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning
- The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis
- All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
- Glass, Irony and God, Ann Carson (poetry)
- Spinning the Vast Fantastic, Britton Shurley (poetry)
- A Girl Named Zippy and She Got Up Off the Couch, Haven Kimmel
- The Solace of Leaving Early, Haven Kimmel (loose trilogy)
- Something Rising (Light and Swift), Haven Kimmel (loose trilogy)
- The Used World, Haven Kimmel (loose trilogy)
- Iodine, Haven Kimmel
- Honest Advent, Scott Erickson
- Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows Duology), Leigh Bardugo
Bits and Baubles:
- “Parts Unknown: Narnia,” short fiction, fan fiction, Rachel Manija Brown at An Archive of Our Own
- “The Jabberwocky,” poem (and fictional commentary) from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol
- “Death of a Pig,” essay, E. B. White for The Atlantic
- “There Will Come Soft Rains” (and “The Veldt”), Ray Bradbury
- “House of Flowers,” Truman Capote