I love books. I’m addicted to the page, the sort of reader who’d willingly run a word-filled IV anytime. It’s hard to pin down absolute favorites for me (with anything) but here’s a selection of what I have loved, and am loving now.
In no particular order:
- Legendsong series, Isobelle Carmody
- On the Jellicoe Road (just Jellicoe Road in the US), Melina Marchetta
- Saving Francesca, Melina Marchetta
- So Much to Tell You, John Marsden
- Howl’s Moving Castle, Dianna Wynne Jones
- The Chrestomanci series, Dianna Wynne Jones
- Coraline, Neil Gaiman
- Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (for the sheer ridiculousness of it)
- Crime & Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevksy
- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
- Voyage in the Dark, Jean Rhys
- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- Franny & Zooey, J.D. Salinger
- Of Mice & Men, John Steinbeck
- Italian Folktakes, Italo Calvino
- The Rose & the Ring, William Thackeray
- Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Rick Riordan
- The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner.
- Instead of Three Wishes, Megan Whalen Turner
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
- A Mango-Shaped Space, Wendy Mass
- Amulet series, Kazu Kibuishi
- A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin
- Tales of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin
- Tehanu, Ursula K. LeGuin
- Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
- Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
- This is What I Did, Ann Dee Ellis
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chobsky
- Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
- Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
- 1001 Nights of Snowfall, Bill Willingham et al.