Favorite books & authors
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1984 – George Orwell
A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
Anna and the Swallow Man – Gavriel Savit
At Play in the Fields of the Lord — Peter Matthiessen
Bastard Out of Carolina – Dorothy Allison
Behind Her Eyes – Sarah Pinborough
Birdbox – Edan Lepucki
Black Robe – Brian Moore
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America — Linda Lawrence Hunt
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown
Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M. Auel
Congo – Michael Crichton
Contact – Carl Sagan
Dances with Wolves – Michael Blake
Darkly Dreaming Dexter – Jeff Lindsay
Deliverance — James Dickey
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
Dirt – David Vann
Endurance – Alfred Lansing
Exiles – Mason Coile
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Fierce Kingdom – Gin Phillips
Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
Finding Jack – Gareth Crocker
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
Foster – Claire Keegan
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Griffin & Sabine – Nick Bantock
Hansel & Gretl – Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
Havoc – Christopher Bollen
Heidi — Johanna Spyri
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence
Jaws – Peter Benchley
Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling
Legends of the Fall – Jim Harrison
Letters from a Nut — Ted L. Nancy
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Misery – Stephen King
Moon Over Manifest – Clare Vanderpool
Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
News of the World – Paulette Jiles
No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Oryx & Crake – Margaret Atwood
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle
Paris Trout – Peter Dexter
Pax – Sara Pennypacker
Planet of the Apes – Pierre Boulie
Please See Us – Caitlin Mullen
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Roots – Alex Haley
Shutter Island – Dennis Lehane
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Hoeg
Subterranean – James Rollins
The Abyss – Orson Scott Card
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – Ernest Gaines
The Ax – Donald Westlake
The Bear – Julia Cameron
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
The Book of Speculation – Erika Swyler
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
The Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M. Auel
The Client – John Grisham
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
The Enchanted – Rene Denfeld
The Essex Serpent – Sarah Perry
The Exiles – Christina Baker Kline
The Girl Who Couldn’t Read – John Harding
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon — Stephen King
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Homesman – Glendon Swarthout
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
The Librarianist – Patrick deWitt
The Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Pearl – John Steinbeck
The Pied Piper of Hamelin – Robert Browning
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
The Revenant – Michael Punke
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris
The Snow Child — Eowyn Ivey
The Sparrow – Mary Doria Russell
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – David Wroblewski
The Wild Robot – Peter Brown
The Wonder – Emma Donoghue
The Yearling – Marjorie Rawlings
They All Saw a Cat – Brendan Wenzel
This Tender Land – William Kent Krueger
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
To the Bright Edge of the World – Eowyn Ivey
Tobacco Road – Erskine Caldwell
Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven – Sherman Alexie
True Grit – Charles Portis
V for Vendetta – Alan Moore
Velocity – Dean Koontz
Watership Down – Richard Adams
We Need New Names – NoViolet Bulawayo
West with the Night – Beryl Markham
White Fur – Jardine Libaire
Wishcraft – Barbara Sher
Zoom — Istvan Banyai (1 and 2)