grunge faerie's recommended reading list...   go to yer local borders Now!

this is a list compiled of books i liked, books my parents liked, books people liked, classics and such.. excellent books and such and such.. if you have one you'd like me to add, well email me here.

Begin List.
Dangerous Angels, Block
*or* Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, and Baby Be-bop  (The Weetzie Bat Books)
the Perks of Being a Wallflower, Chbosky
Habibi, Nye
Siddhartha, Hesse
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Crutcher
All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque
Snow Falling on Cedars, Gutterson
A Time for Dancing, Hurwin
the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis
Screwtape Letters, Lewis
Anne of Green Gables, Montgomery
The Harry Potter Books, Rowling (Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire *new*)
The Golden Compass, Pullman (also: the Subtle Knife and third sequel to be named later)
Redwall, Jacques (there's a whole series of these)

Hatchet, Paulsen
A Wrinkle in Time, L'engle (and sequels Wind In The Door, Many Waters, A Swiftly Tilting Planet)
Diary of Anne Frank, Frank
Peter Pan, Barrie
Anthem, Rand (and The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged)
the Giver, Lowry
I Was A Teenage Fairy, Block *read this*
Girl Goddess #9, Block *read this*
Violet and Claire, Block *read this*
Ladder of Years, Tyler
Cloud Chamber, Dorris
A Case of Need, Crichton
Black and Blue, Quindlen
Prince of Tides, Conroy
the Pilot's Wife, Shreve
A Thousand Acres, Smiley
In the Lake of the Woods, O'Brien
Endymion, Simmons
Catcher in the Rye, Salinger

The Egypt Game, Snyder
the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Farmer
the Piano, Campion (this is a screenplay, actually.. awesome)
Brighty of the Grand Canyon, Henry
Light in the Forest, Richter
the View from Saturday, Konigsburg
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Konigsburg
Holes, Sachar
Memoirs of a Geisha, Golden
Animal Farm, Orwell
1984, Orwell
Secret Garden, Burnett

A List of Poets to Read....

Naomi Shihab Nye
Jewel (surprising but true.)
Anne Sexton
William Carlos Williams
Sylvia Plath
e.e. cummings
Adrienne Rich
W.B. Yeats
John Keats

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