The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chobsky
 Whenever something in a book strikes me, I underline it. This book is full of underlines. It is the story of a boy named Charlie, and his friends, and his life, and what he learns. I love this book because it reminds me off all the people I love the most.

Cassie Binegar; Baby - Patricia McLachlan
 I am incredibly thankful for Patricias books because they have made me who I am. They're classified on a fourth grade reading level, but I'm still surprised by their depth whenever I read them. Cassie Binegar is about Cassie, who has to move near the sea and she doesn't like it much. She dislikes her family and finds most of her solace in her writing, in her space under her moms really ugly tablecloth, and her friend Margaret Mary, who likes words such as hair ball.
Baby is about a family, on an island, who suddenly finds a baby deposited on their doorstep. The book also contains "Dirge Without Music" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, which really got me into poetry. She's written much more but I forget the titles...

The Passions Of The Mind - Irving Stone
Whoa, what a good book. It sounds like a porno but It wasn't, it was a biographical novel written about Sigmund Freud, you know, the father of modern psychology, etc. It was totally fascinating to read about the guy and his life and his ideas, and how they were accepted at the time [not too well] and all the stuff he started. It got me into psychology.

Demian - Herman Hesse
Ever read a book and every five seconds you were finding expressed in words what you had been thinking about and suspecting all along? That was Demian. It was about I guess you could say spiritual journey of this guy Emil Sinclair, and Demian, the guy who helped him along.

Seven Years Of Highly Defective People - Scott Adams
I love Dilbert. I'm not even all that tech-wise -  i mean, I'm using a WYSIWYG editor to write this but I guess since I even know what a WYSIWYG editor is, I count. But sweet jesus he's funny. He's even written little notes about the cartoons in the margains of this one...

Dave Barry's Guide To Guys - Dave Barry
Dave Barry is God #3. [God #'s 1 and 2 will be discussed later.] I think the best thing about this book is that it is so incredibly true. I love guys, I think they're absolutely the most spectacular thing to happen since sliced bread, but they can be quite dense at times. Theres this one chapter in this book that describes how a woman will take a conversation to mean that the man hates her and wants more space to date other women and that he thinks shes putting too much pressure on him and on and on, and the guy is merely thinking about his Transmission Warranty. I got much, much, much more sleep after reading that chapter. Basically anything written by Dave Barry is great, but this book gets mentioned because it relieved the most stress from my life...

Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, Unaccompanied Sonata, the Homecoming series - Orson Scott Card [god #2]
My friend Dan lent me Enders Game awhile ago, and that started it. I really like good science fiction - once I found A Wrinkle In Time in my basement and started reading, but half the book was accidentally detached from the binding, so I screamed and spent like an hour looking for the rest of it, which I did dammit, such was the goodness of this book. I like books that make me think and consequently make me feel smart... Enders Game, in the words of Dan, is about "this really cool little kid." Ender was a really cool little kid - he saved the earth, man. The book is about his military training and battles and his sister and brothers attempt to get his brother to rule the world [kickASS subplot...]. Speaker For The Dead was the equally awesome sequel, about Enders life on the planet Lusitania and his attempt to prevent the xenocide of the sentient race that lived there along with the humans. Xenocide/Children of the Mind are the other 2 sequels, but I didn't like them as much for some reason. Ender doesn't appear as much, and in the last one he seems hardly mentioned at all. Unaccompanied Sonata is a stellar collection of his short stories. I cried during the last one. the Homecoming Series is about a race of people living after the destruction of earth, guided by a computer who unfortunately is failing. So the computer is trying to bring them back to earth. I'm only on the third book but so far its really great.

100 selected poems - e.e. cummings
I can't tell you how much I love e.e. cummings' work. I bought this book a few years ago, and it is well loved and falling apart and written in and has things stapled in it and etc etc. it was my first introduction to cummings and thus holds a real special place in my heart.