Reading List

I've read so many more books than those listed below. Snack Series. Individuals that didn't click with me. This is the best of the best. I haven't really read books for myself in a while, especially since college started, so I read most of these books in high school, but hopefully I might read a few more good books for classes. I am scheduled to read Catcher in the Rye for American Lit this fall (2006).

*Minor Objectionable Content
**Some Graphic Scenes
***Not recommended to the conservative religious type

Authors that don't have a series I'm recommending (by author's last name):

Ray Bradburry
Fahrenheit 451 (science fiction)

Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland (fiction)

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

Jostein Gaarder
Sophie's World (fiction/nonfiction/philosophy/world novel)
The Solitaire Mystery (fiction/philosophy/world novel)

Lori Gotlieb
Stick Figure (biography)

Mary Downing Hahn
Daphne's Book (fiction)
The Gentleman Outlaw and Me—Eli (fiction)

Marya Hornbacher
Wasted (biography)

Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (realistic fiction)

Patricia A. McKillip
The Book of Atrix Wolfe (fantasy)

Garth Nix
Sabriel (fantasy)*

Scott O’Dell
Island of the Blue Dolphins (fiction, a very short, simple, and good read)

George Orwell
Animal Farm (fiction, though debatable)

Louis Sachar
Holes (realistic fiction)

JD Salinger
Catcher in the Rye (realistic fiction)

Katherine Tarbox
Katie.com (biography)*

Sherri S. Tepper
Six Moon Dance (fantasy)*
Beauty (fantasy)**
The Family Tree (fantasy)*
Singer from the Sea (fantasy)*

J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit (fantasy)

Dalton Trumbo
Johnny Got His Gun (fiction)*

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Cat's Cradle (science fiction)
Galapagos (science fiction)

Alice Walker
The Color Purple (realistic fiction)* Anger
Thich Nhat Hanh

Confessions of an Heiress
Paris Hilton (arguably)

The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien

Authors whose series I seem to be recommending:

Avi
Poppy Series (fantasy)
Poppy
Poppy and Rye
Ragweed
Miscellaneous (fantasy)
Perloo the Bold
The Man Who Was Poe

Nick Bantock
The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy (art fiction)
Griffin and Sabine
Sabine's Notebook
The Golden Mean

Caroline B. Cooney
The Time Series (fiction)
Both Sides of Time
Out of Time
A Prisoner of Time
For All Time
The Face on the Milk Carton Series (realistic fiction)
The Face on the Milk Carton
Whatever Happened to Janie?*
The Voice on the Radio

Anne McCaffrey
(Grouped together by their sub-series and chronological order therein, not by favorites)
Dragon Riders of Pern Series (fantasy)
Dragon Flight**
Dragonquest*
The White Dragon**
All The Weyrs of Pern*
The Skies of Pern
First Years on Pern Series (fantasy/sci-fi)
Dragonsdawn**
The Chronicles of Pern: 1st Fall**
The Harper Series (fantasy)
The Masterharper of Pern (my favorite of her books)*
Dragonsong
Dragonsinger
Dragondrums
Miscellaneous (fantasy)
The Renegades of Pern*
The Dolphins of Pern +
Nerilka's Story***

Phillip Pullman
His Dark Material Trilogy (fantasy):
The Gold Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass* +
The Sally Lockhart Trilogy: (realistic fiction set in historical past)
The Ruby in the Smoke
The Shadow in the North*
The Tiger in the Well
Companion to the Sally Lockhart Trilogy:
The Tin Princess*

Anne Rice
Vampire Chronicles Series (horror/fantasy)***
Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
The Queen of the Damned
The Tale of the Body Thief
After this the series “Jumps the Shark”

J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and… (fantasy)
The Sorcerer's Stone
Chamber of Secrets
Prisoner of Azkaban
Goblet of Fire
Order of the Phoenix
Half Blood Prince

A category to itself (last but not least!!!):
Some Say God:
The Bible