Book Recommendations

For those looking for a good book to read, here's are some my favorites! This by no means includes all of the books I've read and enjoyed, and will probably change and grow as I continue to read new books! Let me know if you have any books you think I should read, as I'm always looking for reccomendations.
Picture Books/Early Readers:
  • A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon
  • Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee
  • The Frog and Toad Books by Arnold Lobel
  • Hush, Little Dragon by Boni Ashburn
  • Just Being Audrey by Margaret Cardillo
  • King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood and Don Wood
  • The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg
  • My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
  • Pig, Pigger, Piggest and Once There Was a Bull... frog by Rick Walton
  • Yellowbelly and Plum Go to School by Nathan Hale

Middle Grade Fiction/Classics:
  • The 101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith
  • Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  • Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
  • Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
  • Holes by Louis Sachar
  • A Little Princess and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Rules by Cynthia Lord
  • When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Middle Grade Fantasy/Sci-Fi:
  • Blackbringer and Silksinger by Laini Taylor
  • The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
  • The Chronicles of Chrestomanci and The Dalemark Quartet and Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
  • The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
  • Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George
  • Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
  • The Firebringer Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce
  • Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • Half Magic by Edward Eager
  • James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  • Princess Academy and Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale
  • Savvy and Scumble by Ingrid Law
  • The Search for WondLa by Toni DiTerlizzi
  • The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson

Young Adult Contemporary Fiction:
  • Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins*
  • Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver*
  • The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams*
  • Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To-Do List by Janette Rallison
  • If I Stay by Gayle Forman
  • Liar by Justine Larbalestier*
  • North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
  • Once Was Lost and Sweethearts by Sara Zarr

Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi:
  • Beauty and Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
  • Delirium by Lauren Oliver
  • East by Edith Pattou
  • Forgive My Fins by Tera Lynn Childs
  • The Goose Girl and Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
  • How to Ditch Your Fairy by Justine Larbalestier
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins*
  • Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor*
  • Matched by Ally Condie
  • Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
  • The Pit Dragon Chronicles by Jane Yolen
  • The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  • Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George
  • Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
  • The Thief by Megan Whelan Turner
  • The Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld
  • Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
  • Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier 

Books for Adults:
  • The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale
  • The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak*
  • His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
  • Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen

*Contains content suited for mature readers (such as heavy swearing, violence, or sexual references)