A list of books that deserve to be read:

This is generally more of a list for me for the future, although I’ve been meaning to make one of these lists for a long time anyway. I decided to be nice and organize all of these by title, but I put all the titles in bold that are my personal and absolute favorites.

Top 3 Favorite Books:

1. Memoirs of a Geisha - My god, I have never loved a book as much as I’ve loved this one. I wish I could give a strong and thoughtful analysis on it, but it’s hard for me to put all my feelings into words and I doubt any of you would read it.  For anyone who  hasn’t read it, I reccommend it with as much force as I can possibly muster.
2. The Book Thief - I read this book a few years ago, but I reread it during the summer and it quickly became one of my favorite books. It almost passes Memoirs, but Liesel quickly become one of my favorite literary characters and getting to read a book in the narrative of Death was really interesting.
3. Looking for Alaska - To anyone who hasn’t read a single book by John Green needs to do so immediately. John has always been one of my favorite people, and his books are fantastic. Looking for Alaska is my ultimate favorite and my book is 60% highlighting from all the quotes I liked in it.

• A Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
• A Separate Peace by  John Knowles
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Housseini
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  
• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
  
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diane Jones
• I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max
  
• Life of Pi by  Yann Martel
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Madonna of the Seven Hills / Light on Lucrezia by Jean Plaidy
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Paper Towns by John Green
• Persepolis by  Marjane Sartrapi
• Pet Cemetery by Stephen King
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Queens Fool by Philippa Gregory
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
• Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
• Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen (really, any book by him is fantastic.)
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• The  Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Universe by Douglas Adams
• The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
• The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
• The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• V for Vendetta: The Graphic Novel by Alan Moore
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein