Here is my ever-evolving list of favorite books. Some of these I’ve reread a bunch of times and others I’ve just read recently for the first time, but they’ve all earned their place on my favorites list and I recommend all of them. Click the titles to read my reviews of each book, and check back to see if I’ve added anything new!
- Heaven by Randy Alcorn
- Get Out of Your Head by Jennie Allen
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson
- Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Selection and the rest of The Selection Series by Kiera Cass
- The Reader and the rest of the Sea of Ink and Gold series by Traci Chee
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- We Walked the Sky by Lisa Fiedler
- A Little in Love by Susan Fletcher
- If I Stay by Gayle Forman
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Among the Hidden and the rest of the Shadow Children Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
- The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes
- How it Feels to Fly by Kathryn Holmes
- The Thing With Feathers by McCall Hoyle
- These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
- The Land of Forgotten Girls by Erin Entrada Kelly
- We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly
- I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
- The Giver and its companion books by Lois Lowry
- The Radiant Midnight by Melissa Maimone
- Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
- Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis
- The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
- Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson
- The Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- Everlost and the rest of the Skinjacker Trilogy by Neal Shusterman
- Unwind and the rest of the Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman
- Faking Normal by Courtney C. Stevens
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- Sheets and Delicates by Brenna Thummler
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak