The Book Junkie’s Recommended Reading List
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Genre |
Title |
Author |
Library catalog notes & cross-references |
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Fantasy/Sci-Fi |
The Harry Potter series |
JK Rowling |
JFIC |
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The Fablehaven series |
Brandon Mull |
JFIC |
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The Artemis Fowl series |
Eoin Colfer |
JFIC |
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland |
Lewis Carrol |
JFIC |
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The Chronicles of Crestomanci series, |
Diana Wynne Jones |
JFIC |
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Fahrenheit 451 |
Ray Bradbury |
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams |
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The Chronicles of Narnia |
CS Lewis |
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The Wizard of Oz |
L. Frank Baum |
JFIC |
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His Dark Materials series |
Philip Pullman |
JFIC |
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The Eight |
Katherine Neville |
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Einstein’s Dreams |
Alan Lightman |
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The Hobbit |
JRR Tolkien |
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The Lord of the Rings |
JRR Tolkein |
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The Percy Jackson series |
Rick Riordan |
JFIC |
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The Myterious Benedict Society series |
Trenton Lee Stewart |
JFIC |
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
Brian Selznick |
JFIC |
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The 39 Clues series |
Various authors |
JFIC |
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Ella Enchanted |
Gail Carson Levine |
JFIC |
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Fairest |
Gail Carson Levine |
JFIC |
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The Princess Tales |
Gail Carson Levine |
JFIC |
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James and the Giant Peach |
Roald Dahl |
JFIC |
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Mathilda |
Roald Dahl |
JFIC |
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The Secret of NIMH |
Robert C. O’Brien |
JFIC |
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Historical Fiction |
The People of the Book |
Geraldine Brooks |
General fiction/historical fiction |
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The Things They Carried |
Tim O’Brien
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Vietnam War |
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I, Mona Lisa |
Jeanne Kalogridis |
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress |
Dai Sijie |
China |
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Slaughterhouse Five |
Kurt Vonnegut |
WWII |
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A Separate Peace |
John Knowles |
WWII |
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows |
WWII |
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The Red Tent |
Anita Diamant |
Biblical fiction |
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Day After Night |
Anita Diamant |
Based on true story |
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The Outlander series
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Diana Gabaldon |
Fantasy/Romance/Adventure/Historical Fiction (WWII, Jocobite uprising) |
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The Scarlet Letter |
Nathaniel Hawthorn |
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Mystery/Suspense/ Thriller |
The Cat Who series |
Lilian Jackson Braun |
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The Mrs. Murphy series |
Rita Mae Brown |
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The In Death series |
JD Robb |
Romantic suspense (pseudonym of Nora Roberts |
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The Thirteenth Tale |
Dianne Setterfield |
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The Lovely Bones |
Alice Sebold |
General fiction/suspense |
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie |
Alan Bradley |
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The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag |
Alan Bradley |
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A Flaw in the Blood |
Stephanie Barron |
Historical fiction/mystery |
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The Stephanie Plum series |
Janet Evanovich |
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Angels and Demons |
Dan Brown |
Sci-fi/fantasy |
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The DaVinci Code |
Dan Brown |
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Romance |
Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen |
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The In the Garden trilogy |
Nora Roberts |
Mystery/fantasy |
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The Morrigan’s Cross trilogy |
Nora Roberts |
Sci-fi/fantasy |
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The Key Trilogy |
Nora Roberts |
Fantasy |
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The Sign of Seven Trilogy |
Nora Roberts |
Fantasy |
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The Dark-Hunter series |
Sherrilyn Kenyon |
Sci-fi/fantasy |
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The Undead series |
MaryJanice Davidson |
Sci-fi/fantasy |
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The Argeneau series |
Lynsay Sands |
Sci-fi/fantasy |
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I Capture the Castle |
Dodie Smith |
JFIC |
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General Fiction |
The Uncommon Reader |
Alan Bennet
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
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The Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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The Sound and the Fury |
William Faulkner |
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Catch-22 |
Joseph Heller |
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To Kill a Mockingbird |
Harper Lee |
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Of Mice and Men |
John Steinbeck |
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The Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
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The Color Purple |
Alice Walker |
African-American |
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The Lord of the Flies |
William Golding |
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Lolita |
Vladimir Nabokov |
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The Sun Also Rises |
Ernest Hemingway |
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A Farewell to Arms |
Ernest Hemingway |
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The Catcher in the Rye |
JD Salinger |
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Song of Solomon |
Toni Morrison |
African-American |
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The Bluest Eye |
Toni Morrison |
African-American |
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Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
African-American |
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Their Eyes were Watching God |
Zora Neale Hurston |
African-American |
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A Lesson Before Dying |
Ernest Gaines |
African-American |
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The Help |
Katherine Stockett |
African-American, historical fiction |
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Siddhartha |
Herman Hesse |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain |
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A Prayer for Owen Meany |
John Irving |
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Treasure Island |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
JFIC, adventure/coming-of-age |
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The Alchemist |
Paul Coelho |
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Water for Elephants |
Sara Gruen |
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Memoirs of a Geisha |
Arthur Golden |
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The Awakening |
Kate Chopin |
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Satanic Verses |
Salman Rushdie |
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The Bean Trees |
Barbara Kingsolver |
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The Schwa Was Here |
Neil Schusterman |
JFIC |
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Change of Heart |
Jodi Picoult |
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The Secret Garden |
Frances Hodgson Burnett |
JFIC |
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Nonfiction |
A Pearl in the Storm |
Tori Murden McClure |
Memoir |
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Persepolis |
Marjane Satrapi |
Graphic novel/memoir |
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Persepolis 2 |
Marjane Satrapi |
Graphic novel/memoir |
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