The Printed Word

The Younger Years

The Noisy Counting Book - Susan Schade, Jon Buller

The Little Engine That Could

The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein

The Berenstain Bears - Stan Berenstain

Aesop's Fables

Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein

Santa Mouse books - Michael Brown

Nancy Drew Mysteries - Carolyn Keene

The Pokey Little Puppy 

Mr. Popper's Penguins - Richard Atwater
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle

Junior High

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

The Giver - Lois Lowry

A Bone From a Dry Sea - Peter Dickinson

Sweet Valley High Series (any and every one I could find)

Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume

Goosebumps Series: R. L. Stine

A Walk To Remember - Nicholas Sparks

*The Education of Little Tree - Forrest Carter

*I'm going to leave this one on for the sake of the list but I have recently heard that this man Forrest was a part of the KKK and not Native American what so ever. There is a lot of back and forth about the man and his untrue depiction of Cherokee life. I did enjoy it at the time and I am sad to hear the truth behind the story.

High School and College Plus a Little Beyond:

Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging (series) - Louise Rennison
Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende

Reading Lolita In Tehran – Azar Nafisi

Good Omens – Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky

Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert

Ishmael – Daniel Quinn

A Room of One’s Own – Virginia woolf

Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott

If You Have to Cry Go Outside – Kelly Cutrone

The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon


2011 on:
Looking For Alaska - John Green
Paper Towns - John Green
The Gunslinger - Steven King
The Hunger Games Trilogy
The Divergent Series
168 Hours
The Fire Starter Sessions
Spirit Junkie