Books, books, books!

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This is more of a personal post to inspire me, but if you want to look/add insight, be my guest.

Genres and reasons randomly inserted. No particular order.

• Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr - urban fantasy
• Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black - urban fantasy
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult - highly recommended, ethics of healthcare
• The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve - lovers
• The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller - Tessa recommended, lovers
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - highly recommended, coming of age
• Twilight and sequels by Stephenie Meyer - highly recommended, teen fantasy
• The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope - fairytale
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - highly recommended, lovers
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom - highly recommended, life
  • Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man... by Mitch Albom - highly recommended, mentors
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - highly recommended, historical fiction with vampires
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - friendship
• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks - historical fiction
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - highly recommended, lovers
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - highly recommended
• Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner - chicklit
  • In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner - chicklit
• Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella - chicklit
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger - classic
• A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray - historical fantasy
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - highly recommended, death
• Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay - Tessa recommended, fantasy
  • A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
  • The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
• Riddle-Master by Patricia McKillip - fantasy
• A Game of Thrones and sequels by George R. R. Martin - highly recommended, fantasy series (4?)
• The Dark Mirror and sequels by Juliet Marillier - fantasy
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - highly recommended, historical fiction
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel - highly recommended, adventure
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett - lovers
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - highly recommended
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel - food and love?
• Watership Down by Richard Adams - highly recommended
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - highly recommended, classic?
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman - highly recommended
  • Stardust by Neil Gaiman
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern - recommended, chicklit
• Atonement by Ian McEwan - highly recommended, historical
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck - recommended
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch - highly recommended, life
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - classic
• The Bone Doll's Twin and sequels by Lynn Flewelling - dark fantasy
• Rhapsody: Child of Blood and sequels by Elizabeth Haydon - high fantasy
• The Mirror of Her Dreams and sequel by Stephen R. Donaldson - fantasy
• The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright - lovers
• The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen - recommended (look at other Sarah Dessen too?)
• Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld - chicklit
• Sloppy Firsts and sequels by Megan McCafferty - chicklit
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield - historical mystery?
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan - Huanqi recommended
• The Fool's Tale by Nicole Galland - historical fiction (Celtic)
  • Revenge of the Rose by Nicole Galland - historical fiction
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin - classic
• The Curse of Chalion and sequels by Lois McMaster Bujold - recommended, fantasy
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - highly recommended, friendship
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - recommended, feminism
  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - recommended, sister death
  • Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood - bad friendship
  • The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood - Penelope
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - scifi dystopia
• Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman - family, love
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - classic
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut - classic
  • Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut - classic
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - highly recommended, classic
• Death Be Not Proud by John J. Gunther - classic, death
• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything... by Elizabeth Gilbert - bestseller, discovery
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett - bestseller, historical fiction
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand - recommended
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - classic
• The Bronze Horseman and sequels by Paullina Simons - recommended, historical romance
• The Conquest by Elizabeth Chadwick - medieval romance
• Katherine by Anya Seton - historical romance
• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb - recommended, depressing
• Something Borrowed and sequels by Emily Giffin - chicklit
• Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts - recommended, friendship?
• Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot - chicklit
• The Giver by Lois Lowry - David recommended, color/black&white
• A Piece of Cake: A Memoir by Cupcake Brown - inspirational, drugs
• The Pact by Jodi Picoult - liked Sister's Keeper
• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb - inspirational, highly recommended
• Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson - romance
• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith - dystopia
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

To be updated when necessary.