These are some of my favorite books:

 

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

The Raven Boys (and sequels) by Maggie Stiefvater

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

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 Hating Game by Sally Thorn

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

 

ADULT FANTASY

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

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

The Narnian by Alan Jacobs

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

John Adams by David McCullough

Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Wild by Cheryl Strayed