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Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer (u will cry) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (YOU WILL CRY) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (will probably cry) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion (may face post-reading detachment) Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler (POST READING BREAKUP FEELINGS) ANYTHING John Green, specifically The Fault in Our Stars (SOB CITY WARNING) ALSO Junot Diaz - he’s an author I haven’t quite gotten around to reading in full, just a short story pulled from This Is How You Lose Her but he’s incredible!!! Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk ALSO!!! If you’re into children’s lit and have never read him, Roald Dahl!!! True luv for him. fantasy/sci-fi/dystopian:
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle Divergent (and Insurgent) - Veronica Roth Delirium - Lauren Oliver The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials Series) - Philip Pullman The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut (anything really by him) The Mortal Instruments (series) - Cassandra Clare Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (you will cry) A Great And Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle Trilogy) - Libba Bray non-fiction
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion (anything by her) Bossypants - Tina Fey (you will laugh your butts off) I have had many a person recommend David Sedaris, so!
Nineteen-Eighty-Four by George Orwell (pdf) The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (pdf) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (pdf) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (pdf) The Logan Trilogy by William F. Nolan (pdf)