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