Recommendations

*I own a copy.


Gorgeous novels:
The Air We Breathe, Andrea Barrett
The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho*
Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
The Ingenious Edgar Jones, Elizabeth Garner*
Tales of Protection, Erik Fosnes Hansen*
The Night Birds, Thomas Maltman
The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Bride's Farewell, Meg Rosoff*
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield*
The Story of Beautiful Girl, Rachel Simon


Princesses and fairy-tales:
The Wide-Awake Princess, E.D. Baker*
A Curse Dark as Gold, Elizabeth Bunce
Enchantment, Orson Scott Card*
Princess of the Midnight Ball, Jessica Day George*
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow, Jessica Day George*
The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale*
The Princess and the Hound, Mette Ivie Harrison*
The Princess and the Bear, Mette Ivie Harrison*
The Princess and the Snowbird, Mette Ivie Harrison
Wildwood Dancing, Juliet Marillier*
The Swan Kingdom, Zoe Marriott*
Spindle's End, Robin McKinley*
Beauty, Robin McKinley*
Zel, Donna Jo Napoli*
Aurelia, Anne Osterlund*


Magic and adventures:
The Hotel Under the Sand, Kage Baker*
The Hunger Games Trilogy, Suzanne Collins
The Books of Bayern, Shannon Hale
Dreamhunter, Elizabeth Knox*
Dreamquake, Elizabeth Knox*
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle*
Many Waters, Madeleine L'Engle*
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis*
Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood, Merideth Ann Pierce*
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone (etc), J.K. Rowling*
Crown Duel, Sherwood Smith*
Court Duel, Sherwood Smith*
The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien*
The Lord of the Rings (etc), J.R.R. Tolkien
Impossible, Nancy Werlin*


Dystopia:
The Silo Saga (Wool, Shift, Dust), Hugh Howey
Wayward Pines Series, Blake Crouch


Classic Lit:
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen*
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte*
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery*


Holocaust stories:
Those Who Save Us, Jenna Blum
Beatrice and Virgil, Yann Martel
Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak*


For abuse survivors:
Fierce Medicine, Ana T. Forrest
Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse, Dr. Gregory Jantz*
Becoming Strong Again, Dr. Gregory Jantz*
The Self-Esteem Workbook, Glenn R. Shiraldi*
House Rules: A Memoir, Rachel Sontag


For baby-lost parents:
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart, Deborah L. Davis, PHD
About What Was Lost, Jessica Berger Gross
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Elizabeth McCracken
A Broken Heart Still Beats, Anne McCracken & Mary Semel


For young readers:
Is Underground, Joan Aiken*
No Flying in the House, Betty Brock
Catherine, Called Birdy, Karen Cushman
The Tale of Desperaux, Kate DiCamillo*
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo*
The Magician's Elephant, Kate DiCamillo
Half Magic, Edward Eager
The Star of Kazan, Eva Ibbotson
The Princess and the Goblin, George MacDonald*
Baby, Patricia MacLachlan
Anne of Green Gables (etc), L.M. Montgomery
The Perilous Gard, Elizabeth Marie Pope*
Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Stover*
Peppermints in the Parlor, Barbara Brooks Wallace
Little House in the Big Woods (etc), Laura Ingalls Wilder*


For storytime:
Madeline (etc), Ludwig Bemelmens*
On the Day You Were Born, Debra Frasier*
The Saggy Baggy Elephant, K. Jackson*
The Wizard of Wallaby Wallow, Jack Kent
The Light Princess, George MacDonald
The Paperbag Princess, Robert Munsch
Where's Walrus?, Stephen Savage
Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak*
The Nutshell Library, Maurice Sendak
Caps For Sale, Esphyr Slobodkina*
The 13 Clocks, James Thurber*
Crictor, Tomi Ungerer
Snail, Where Are You?, Tomi Ungerer


For bedtime:
And If The Moon Could Talk, Kate Banks*
Stellaluna, Janell Cannon*
The Night is Singing, Jacqueline Davies
My Beautiful Child, Lisa Desmini & Matt Mahurin
Star Climbing, Lou Francher & Steve Johnson
Many Moons, James Thurber*
Owl Babies, Martin Waddell*
One Wide Sky, Deborah Wiles
Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late, Mo Willems*
Hug Time, Patrick McDonnell*