ignore this if you want (library books!)
I went in with a list of 19 authors on my left hand, got some of them, plus a few extras -
1. Adventureland [DVD]
2. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick
3. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde (it has other plays in it as well, but I only plan to read that one)
4. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak (can you believe I never read it as a kid?)
5. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
6. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
7. The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (this book is huge!)
8. The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World - E. L. Konigsburg
9. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
10. Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl
11. Jolted : Newton Starker's Rules For Survival - Arthur G. Slade
12. The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had - Kristin Levine
13. Alice Through the Looking-glass - Lewis Carroll
14. Rumi: the Book of Love
15. Spider-Man vs. the Black Cat (yes, a comic book. it's a long story)
16. How to Be a Domestic Goddess - Nigella Lawson
17. Good Housekeeping's Best-loved Desserts