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