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
• 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.

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

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

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