- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
- Lyddie by Katherine Patterson (a 4th grade favorite)
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian
- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- Anything by David Sedaris
- Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- Grand Central Winter by Lee Stringer
- Dry by Augusten Burroughs
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
apr 8 2011 ∞
apr 8 2011 +