"Seeing someone reading a book you love is like seeing a book recommend a person." - Unknown
I have a top five list but there are so many other books that I've read that I've loved. These are the books that I never fail to recommend when people ask me for a book recommendation.
The list is organized alphebetically by genre, with non-fiction at the end, and then alphebetically by authors last name within the genre.
Note: If a book is part of a series but is not denoted as such, it means I have only read the first book and therefore cannot truly recommend the series as a whole.
Classics
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orzcy
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Chosen by Chaim Potok
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Contemporary
- Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
- The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand
- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
- The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu [review]
- Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson [review]
- All the Bright Places by Jennifer Nevin
- One Day by David Nicholls
- The Book of Broken Hearts by Sarah Ockler [review]
- Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple (adult)
- Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell [review]
- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell [review]
- Landline by Rainbow Rowell [review] (adult)
- The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider
- Stargirl (duology) by Jerry Spinelli
- Faking Normal by Courtney C. Stevens [review]
- The Running Dream Wendelin Van Draanen
- Chemistry by Weike Wang
- Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin [review]
- I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
Dystopian
- The Hunger Games (trilogy) by Suzanne Collins
- The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings [review]
- The Giver (quartet) by Lois Lowry
- Legend (trilogy) by Marie Lu
- Not a Drop to Drink (duology) by Mindy McGinnis [book 1 review]
- Ashfall (trilogy) by Mike Mullen
- Divergent (trilogy) by Veronica Roth
- Unwind (series) by Neal Shusterman
- Partials (trilogy) by Dan Wells
- Pivot Point (duology) by Kasie West
Fantasy
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns (trilogy) by Rae Carson
- The Hamilton Affair by Elizabeth Cobbs
- So You Want To Be A Wizard (series) by Diane Duane
- A Wrinkle In Time (series) by Madeline L'Engle
- Throne of Glass (series) by Sarah J. Maas
- The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians (series) by Rick Riordan
- The Heroes of Olympus (series) by Rick Riordan
- The Trials of Olympus (series) by Rick Riordan
- Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling (middle grade)
- The Mistborn Trilogy (series) by Brandon Sanderson
- Vicious by V.E. Schwab (adult) [review]
- A Darker Shade of Magic (series) by V.E. Schwab
- The Bone Season (series) by Samantha Shannon (adult) [book 1 review]
- The Raven Boys (trilogy) by Maggies Stiefvater
- An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Historical Fiction
- Prisoner of Night and Fog (series) by Anne Blankman
- All the Light We Cannot See (adult) by Anthony Doerr
- Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen (adult)
- Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
- Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys
- Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- The Help by Katherine Stockett (adult)
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Mystery
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (adult)
- From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konegsburg (middle grade)
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (middle grade)
- Sammy Keyes (series) by Wendelin Van Draanen (middle grade)
Paranormal
- The Diviners (series) by Libba Bray
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone (trilogy) by Laini Taylor [book 1 review]
Science Fiction
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- Things Not Seen (trilogy) by Andrew Clements
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Extraction (trilogy) by Stephanie Diaz [book 1 review, book 2 review]
- Origin (series) by Jessica Khoury
- All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
- Cinder by Marissa Meyer
- The Unseen World by Liz Moore
- Sleeping Giants (series) by Sylvain Neuvel
- Across the Universe (trilogy) by Beth Revis
- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (middle grade)
- The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey [review]
- The Martian by Andy Weir
Non-Fiction
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- You're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- The Opposite of Loneliness by Maria Keegan
- Never Have I Ever: My Life So Far Without a Date by Katie Heaney
- Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
- The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
- Very Good Lives by J.K. Rowling
- Where Am I Now? by Mara Wilson
