Must Reads

SOME BOOKS I LOVE (in no particular order)

BOOKS for Adults

Any Best American Short Stories anthology
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Any of Raymond Carver's short stories
Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Kafka's short stories
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

NOVELS for Middle Grade Readers

The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Skellig by David Almond

Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (15 and up I'd say)

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

Holes by Louis Sachar

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Maniac McGhee by Jerry Spinelli

Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep

The Animal Family by Randall Jarell

Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

PICTURE BOOKS

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson

George and Martha by James Marshall

The Three Questions by Jon J. Muth

This list is in no way a complete list of all the great books out there, or even the ones that have moved me. If you have one that you love let me know what it is, maybe it is for me too and I will thank you for reminding me and add it to my list.