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“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I’ve eaten; even so, they have made me.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your silly heads.” ~ Ray Bradbury

“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” ~ Emma Thompson

2013

#1: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

#2: The Help by Kathryn Stockett

#3: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

#4: The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

#5: The Forever Queen by Helen Hollick

#6: Divergent by Veronica Roth

#7: Insurgent by Veronica Roth

#8: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

#9: The Stand by Stephen King

#10: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

#11: Looking for Alaska by John Green

#12: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

#13: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

#14: Animal Farm by George Orwell

#15: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

#16: Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser

#17: Given by Wendell Berry

#18: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

#19: Paper Towns by John Green

#20: Next Life by Rae Armantrout

#21: The Best American Poetry 2005 – Paul Muldoon (editor)

#22: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

#23: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

#24: Still Alice by Lisa Genova

#25: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

#26: 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper

#27: To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

#28: My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

#29: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

#30: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

#31: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

#32: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

#33: Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

#34: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

#35: The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser

#36: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

#37: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

#38: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

#39: Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen

#40: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

#41: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

#42: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

#43: Room by Emma Donoghue

#44: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

#44: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

#45: The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan

#46: Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

2014

#1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

#2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

#3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

#4: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

#5: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

#6: How to Read Literature Like a Professor  by Thomas Foster

#7: Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

#8: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

#9: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

#10: Notes From The Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

#12: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

#13: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

#14: If I Stay by Gayle Forman

#15: 1984 by George Orwell

#16: A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World by Adam Clay

#17: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

#18: Death: A Life by George Pendle

#19: Misery by Stephen King

#20: Coraline by Neil Gaiman

#21: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

#22: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

#23: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

#24: Diary by Chuck Palahniuk

#25: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

#26: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut

2015

#1: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2: Dandelion Wine  by Ray Bradbury

#3: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

#4: The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer

#5: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

#6: Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins

#7: Stardust by Neil Gaiman

#8: Beloved by Toni Morrison

#9: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

#10: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

#11: Carrie by Stephen King

#12: Hamlet by William Shakespeare

#13: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

#14: Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

#15: Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart

#16: The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins

#17: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

#18: If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? by Kurt Vonnegut

#19: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

#20: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

#21: White Oleander by Janet Fitch

#22: American Gods by Neil Gaiman

#23: Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou

#24: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

#25: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

#26: Antigone by Sophocles

#27: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

#28: Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez

#29: The Iliad by Homer

#30: Selected Poems by Robert Frost

#31: The Tempest by William Shakespeare

#32: The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration by Thomas Brown

#33: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

#34: A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs

#35: Seam by Tarfia Faizullah

#36: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

2016

#1: Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman

#2: Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

#3: No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

#4: The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

#5: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

#6: Citizen by Claudia Rankine

#7: Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

#8: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

#9: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

#10: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

#11: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

#12: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

#13: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

#14: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

#15: Stranger by Adam Clay

#16: This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

#17: Crush by Richard Siken

#18: The Shining by Stephen King

#19: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

#19: Aimless Love by Billy Collins

#20: The First Bad Man by Miranda July

#21: The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh

#22: The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal

#23: The Human Line by Ellen Bass

#24: The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

#25: Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney

#26: The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by N.K. Sanders

#27: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by James Winny