These are some of my favorite books:
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
The Raven Boys (and sequels) by Maggie Stiefvater
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Hold Still by Nina LaCour
Dairy Queen (and sequels) by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Daughter of Smoke and Bone (and sequels) by Laini Taylor
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
The Christy Miller series by Robin Jones Gunn
ADULT FICTION
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
ROMANCE
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
The Hating Game by Sally Thorn
99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorn
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
ADULT FANTASY
The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Archangel by Sharon Shinn
CLASSIC LITERATURE
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
BIOGRAPHY, MEMOIR, & NONFICTION
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
John Adams by David McCullough
Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis