Looking for the perfect book to gift? Or maybe just to read yourself? We’ve compiled a list of our favorites that we’d love to share with you!
Classics:
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemmingway by Ernest Hemmingway
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
The Giver Series by Lois Lowry
Fiction:
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
While Beauty Slept by Elizabeth Blackwell
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding
I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
Skinny Dip by Carl Hiassen
Patchwork Planet by Anne Taylor
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (movie in the works)
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Women of Christmas by Liz Curtis Higgs
Recent Books to Movies:
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (going to be an HBO series)
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (going to be a Netflix series)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series by Jeff Kinney
The Maze Runner Series by James Dashner
Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Divergent Series by Veronica Roth
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
If I Stay by Gayle Forman (sequel Where She Went)
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
Young Adult:
East by Edith Pattou
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Sacred by Elana K. Arnold
Dante and Aristotle Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp (also a movie!)
Paper Towns by John Green (will be movie soon!)
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Non Fiction:
An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
A Higher Call by Adam Makos
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
Quiet by Susan Cain
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
Preteen Age Range:
Sammy Keyes Series by Wendelin Van Draanen
Dr. Franklin’s Island by Ann Halam
A Series of Unfortunate Events Series by Lemony Snicket
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd
Children:
The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone
The Pet War by Allan Woodrow
Snuggle the Baby by Sara Gillingham
Have You Seen My Dragon? by Steve Light
I’m My Own Dog by David Ezra Stein
Mama Built a Little Nest by Jennifer Ward, illustrated by Steve Jenkins
My New Friend Is So Fun! by Mo Willems
The Mitten: A Classic Pop-Up Folktale by Jessica Southwick, Pippa Cornick and Yevgeniya Yeretskaya
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Dory Fantasmagory by Abby Hanlon
Space Taxi by Wendy Mass and Michael Brawer, illustrated by Elise Gravel
