My Favorite Books, By Author:

A

• Douglas Adams: The Deeper Meaning of Liff; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series
• Richard Adams: Watership Down
• K. A. Applegate: Animorphs

B

• Alison Bechdel: Fun Home; Are You My Mother?
• Francesca Lia Block: Dangerous Angels; Ecstasia; Girl Goddess #9; Necklace of Kisses; Primavera
• Vanna Bonta: Flight
• Ann Brashares: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
• Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
• Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
• Octavia E. Butler: Earthseed books; Patternist series; Xenogenesis series

C

• Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl series
• Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games series
• Scott Cunningham: Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs; Living Wicca; The Truth About Witchcraft Today; Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

D

• Roald Dahl: James and the Giant Peach; Matilda
• Diane Duane: Young Wizards series
• Lois Duncan: A Gift of Magic; Stranger with My Face
• Katherine Dunn: Geek Love

E

• Garth Ennis: Preacher graphic novels
• Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex

F

• J.C. Fann: The Queenschair series
• Mark Frauenfelder, Carla Sinclair and Gareth Branwyn: The Happy Mutant Handbook
• Usamaru Furuya: Short Cuts manga

G

• Neil Gaiman: American Gods; The Sandman graphic novels
• Steven Gould: Jumper

H

• Shannon Hale: Book of a Thousand Days; The Books of Bayern series; Princess Academy series; The Actor and the Housewife
• Alex Haley: Roots
• Pete Hautman: Godless
• Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time
• Joseph Heller: Catch-22
• Carl Hiaasen: Skinny Dip

I

• Eva Ibbotson: Which Witch?
• Riichiro Inagaki and Yusuke Murata: Eyeshield 21 manga

K

• Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon
• Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees
• Stephen King: Carrie; The Dark Tower series; Firestarter; On Writing; The Shining; The Stand
• Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible
• John Knowles: A Separate Peace
• Nancy Kress: Beggars in Spain

L

• Wally Lamb: I Know This Much Is True
• Gail Carson Levine: Ella Enchanted
• David Levithan: Boy Meets Boy

M

• Gregory Maguire: Wicked
• Yann Martel: Life of Pi
• George R.R. Martin: Wild Cards
• Edain McCoy: The Sabbats
• Eloise McGraw: The Moorchild
• Keith Miller: The Book of Flying
• Christopher Moore: Bloodsucking Fiends, Lamb
• Jaclyn Moriarty: The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie

N

• John Novak: How to Meditate

P

• Chuck Palahniuk: Choke; Fight Club
• Julie Anne Peters: Between Mom and Jo; Far from Xanadu; Keeping You a Secret; Luna
• Rodman Philbrick: Freak the Mighty
• Dav Pilkey: Captain Underpants series
• Daniel Pinkwater: Young Adult Novel
• Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials series

R

• Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows
• Louise Rennison: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series
• Mike Resnick: Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun?
• Spider Robinson: The Callahan Chronicals
• Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Satran: Beyond Jennifer & Jason
• Rainbow Rowell: Eleanor & Park; Fangirl

S

• Louis Sachar: The Cardturner; Holes; Sixth Grade Secrets; There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom
• J.D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye
• R.A. Salvatore: Dark Elf trilogy
• Pamela Redmond Satran & Linda Rosenkrantz: Cool Names for Babies
• Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation
• William Shakespeare: Hamlet
• Shel Silverstein: The Missing Piece Meets the Big O
• Dan Simmons: The Hollow Man
• William Sleator: The Boy Who Reversed Himself; Interstellar Pig; Singularity
• Andrew Smith: 100 Sideways Miles; Grasshopper Jungle
• Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Jerry Spinelli: Milkweed; Stargirl
• Ivan Stang: The Book of the SubGenius
• Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead

T

• Patricia Telesco: A Kitchen Witch’s Cookbook
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings series
• Lynne Truss: Eats, Shoots & Leaves

V

• Jhonen Vasquez: Squee
• Joan D. Vinge: Cat series

W

• Rebecca Wells: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
• Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome
• Elie Wiesel: Night
• G. Clifton Wisler: Antrian series

Z

• Timothy Zahn: A Coming of Age
• Paul Zindel: The Pigman