italics for "book end" books aka books read freshman and senior yrs of hs (and probably in between and much later)

• the best creative nonfiction vol 1 / lee gutkind
• a tree grows in brooklyn / betty smith
• atonement / ian mceawn
• the thirteenth tale / diane setterfield
• world war z / max brooks
• the ear, the eye, and the arm / nancy farmer
• the bell jar / slyvia plath
• the godfather / mario puzo