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
- 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
- The Holy Bible, God
- Harry Potter series including The Cursed Child, 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
Favorite Authors:
- Amy Tan
- Gwendolynn Brooks
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Lauren Child
- Roald Dahl
- William Shakespeare
- A.A. Milne
- L.M. Montgomery
- (Raina Telgemeier)
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 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
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
