Steve’s 50 Favorite Books

• Douglas  Adams,  Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Sherman Alexie, Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
• Judi and Ron Barrett,  Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• William Bell, Zack
• Buzz Bissinger, Friday Night Lights
• Jim Bouton, Ball Four
• Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
• Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
• Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There
• Charles Bukowski, Factotum
• Charles Bukowski, Post Office
• Bruce Campbell, If Chins Could Kill
• Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
• Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
• Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
• Phillip K. Dick, Flow My tTars, the Policeman Said
• Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
• Julia Donaldson, The Gruffalo
• Michael Dorris, The Window
• Sundee T. Frazier, Brendan Buckley’s the Universe and Everything in It
• Neil Gaiman, Coraline
• Jack Gantos, Hole in My Life
  Joseph Heller, Catch 22
• S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
• Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch
• Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
• Alex Kotlowitz, There are No Children Here
• Lois Lowry, The Giver
• Chris Lynch, Slot Machine
• Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me
• Yuyi Morales, Just in Case
• Walter Dean Myers, Monster
• Kadir Nelson, We Are the Ship
• Richard Roeper, Sox and the City
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Louis Sachar, Holes
• J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
• Erich Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
• Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
• Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
• John Steinbeck, East of Eden
• John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
• John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
• Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
• Lutz van Dijk, Damned Strong Love
• Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
• Jacqueline Woodson, After 2Pac and D Foster
• Jacqueline Woodson, If You Come Softly
• Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese
  

Mary’s 50 Favorite Books

• Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins
• Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
• Sherman Alexie, Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
• Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice
• Jane Austen, Persuasion
• Jane Austen, Emma
• Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility
• Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
• Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
• Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride & Prejudices and Zombies
• Lynne Reid Banks, Indian in the Cupboard
• Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
• Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book
• Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Princess
• Willa Cather, My Antonia
• Andrew Clements, Frindle
• Wilkie Collins, Woman in White
• Christopher Paul Curtis, Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963
• Roald Dahl, Matilda
• Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
• Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca
• George Eliot, Middlemarch
• Jack Finney, Time and Again
• Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy
• E.M. Forster, Passage to India
• Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
• Helene Hanff, 84 Charing Cross Road
• Joseph Heller, Catch 22
• Henry James, Aspern Papers
• Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
• Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
• Madeleine L’Engle, Wrinkle in Time
• Lois Lowry, The Giver
• Audrey Niffenegger, Time Traveler’s Wife
• Tamora Pierce, Alanna
• Sylvia Plath, Bell Jar
• Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
• Philip Roth, Plot Against America
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Louis Sachar, Holes
• Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
• Diane Setterfield, 13th Tale
• Mary Ann Shafer & Annie Barrows, Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath
• John Steinbeck, East of Eden
• Noel Streitfeild, Ballet Shoes
• Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
• E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
• Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods