Some of my Favorites...

Here are some of my favorite reads, from classics to modern literature to young adult. No spoilers and really no explanations. If I liked it, it's probably here. Remember, I spent 25 years as an English teacher. This list is by no means exhaustive.

  • Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston

  • Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin

  • Heart of Darkness Joesph Conrad

  • Heartstopper (the entire series) Alice Oseman

  • Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda Becky Albertalli

  • 1984 George Orwell

  • The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorn

  • Macbeth William Shakespeare

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde

  • Hamlet William Shakespeare

  • The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Catch-22 Joseph Heller

  • The Outsiders S. E. Hinton

  • Brideshead Revisted Evelyn Waugh

  • Maurice E. M. Forester

  • Travels with My Aunt Graham Greene

  • Great Expectations Charles Dickens

  • Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck

  • To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

  • Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury

  • Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

  • The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf

  • The Long Call Anne Cleeves