Do you need to ask?

This list is an easy task.

By J.K. Rowling,

where Voldemort is prowling,

Oops, should not ’ve said his name.

But You-Know-Who just sounds lame.

Harry Potter: fantasy,

the best books ever, to me.

Survival, and violance.

Beware of silence.

By Suzanne Collins,

Full of maulings.

The Hunger Games: fantasy

The exitement you’ll love. You’ll see!

By Erin Hunter,

a suspicous mutter,

a suspicous Warrior cat,

try making a fantasy better than that.

Now finally,

Ida B.

Katherine Hannigan’s ficton, based on reality

And don’t forget anything written by me.

I love reading so i'll give you a few. Far From the Tree by Robin Benway and is a contemporary novel. Also Tiny But Mighty by Hannah Shaw and it's like a guide kind of for fostering kittens. Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnely and is more of a book for teens. World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky and is a book about the ocean and what will happenb if we keep treating it the way we are treating.

Hope you like 'em!

Poetry:

The poetry here isn’t too hard to read and are highly rated (by academics and the public) as well as being my favourite collections of poetry.

Selected Poetry and Prose of Percy Shelley – If you like passionate poetry

Complete Poems of Walt Whitman – Good free verse poetry

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda – if you like complex poetry and some love poems at the start of the book.

William Shakespeare’s Sonnets – Some of the greatest poetry written in my opinion

Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems – Just a good poet who has different poetic styles.

Prose:

Basic Writings of Nietzsche(philosophy) – A enjoyable philosopher to read in comparison with other philosophers who write very dense and boring texts.

Neuromancer by William Gibson(Cyberpunk Science fiction) – the first cyberpunk text and a science fiction classic.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy(post apocalyptic) – One of the saddest and most beautiful stories I have ever read

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy(western) – a darker story of the wild west, the best wild west story you will read (in my opinion) and the most historically accurate version of the wild west.

Dune by Frank Herbert(science fiction) – Considered one of the best science books of all time.

Oh, dear.

I devour books, and have been doing so the greater half of my life. So in an attempt not to overwhelm, I always base my recommendations on the person I’m recommending books to...

But in this case, I suppose I’ll put my absolute favorites in a few genres/categories.

It may turn out to be a long list. My apologies.

But now you can just find the category that suits you!

In no particular order:

Fantasy/Mythological fantasy:

- The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

- The Chronicles of Prydain, Lloyd Alexander

- Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis

- The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

Slice of Life(ish)/Romance(ish) (?):

- The Awakening of Miss Prim, Natalia Fenollera

- Persuasion, Jane Austen (okay, yeah, Pride and Prejudice too; these two are my favs)

“Classics”/Idontknowhowbesttocategorize:

- The Lord of the Flies, William Golding

- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

- Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens

- The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton

- King Lear, William Shakespeare (and any others, but this is my most recent and new favorite read of his)

- The Keys of the Kingdom, A.J. Cronin

Sweet Classics/good for adults and children:

- Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery

- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

Mystery (for lots of ages):

- The Father Brown Mysteries, G.K. Chesterton

- The Hardy Boys, Franklin Dixon

- Trixie Belden, Kathryn Kenny

- The Three Investigators, Robert Arthur (these are great to read to elementary/middle school kids who like mysteries!)

- The A-Z Mysteries, Ron Roy (we ate them up as kids)

Elementary/Middle-school(ish):

- The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman

- The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

- Number the Stars, Lois Lowry

- The Clay Marble, Minfong Ho (this is tragic, but so beautiful. I read when I was 11-12ish, I believe and sobbed for a good week)

- Goodnight, Mr. Tom, Michelle Magorian (also beautiful and tragic, also 11-12ish years old, and another week of sobbing)

Children:

- Mr. Putter and Tabby series, Cynthia Rylant

- Bear and Mouse series, Bonny Becker

- Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne

Philosophical/Theological:

- Peace of Soul, (Ven.) Fulton Sheen (and every other book of his...ever.)

- Theology and Sanity, Frank Sheed

- “De Anima” from The Basic Works of Aristotle, Aristotle (well, and all of it. But I'd personally start with "De Anima")

- The Confessions (of St. Augustine), (St.) Augustine of Hippo

- Utopia, (St.) Thomas More

- Edith Stein: Essential Writings, a collection of works by Edith Stein

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, I got super carried away...

I could keep going, but I think it's wise that I stop now...

- Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train

- Fiona Barton - The Suspect

- Gilly McMillan - What She Knew

- Ruth Ware - The Woman in Cabin 10

- Mary Kubica - The Good Girl

- Paula Brackston - The Witch’s Daughter

- Susan Crawford - The Other Widow

- Carol Goodman - The Night Visitors

- Jodi Picoult - Lone Wolf

- Stephanie Meyer - The Chemist

Superhero:

The Reckoners Series (Brandon Sanderson)

Utopian-ish:

Arc of the Scythe series (Neal Shusterman)

Clones:

The House of the Scorpion (Nancy Farmer)

(Post)-Apocalyptic:

Maze Runner Series (James Dashner)

Virtual Reality:

Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous//Ocean Vuong (contemporary fiction)

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle//Stuart Turton (mystery)

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls//T Kira Madden (memoir)

Ayesha at Last//Uzma Jalaluddin (romance)

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened//Allie Brosh (humour/graphic novel/memoir)

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

Genre: Dystopian future, technological advancements, fiction

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Genre: Futuristic, cyborg, techie, fiction

Details: A four-book series (1. Cinder 2. Scarlet 3. Cress 4. Winter)

Renegades by Marissa Meyer

Genre: Dystopian, Futuristic, Superhero

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

Genre: Fantasy, fiction, dystopian future

Details: a three-book series (1. Caraval 2. Legendary 3. Finale)

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Genre: Sci-fi, futuristic, alien invasion, battle

Some books that have left a lasting impact on my life:

To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee

A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens

Huckelberry Finn -- Mark Twain

Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck

The Scarlet Letter -- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moby Dick -- Herman Melville

The House of the Spirits -- Isabel Allende

Like Water for Chocolate -- Laura Esquivel

The Book of Ruth -- Jane Hamilton

The Bell Jar -- Sylvia Plath

A Streetcar Named Desire -- Tennessee Williams

The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Oscar Wilde

Paula -- Isabel Allende

Water for Elephants -- Sara Gruen

The Secret Life of Bees -- Sue Monk Kidd

Jayne Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Maya Angelou

The Color Purple -- Alice Walker