(bolded are the ones I especially lust after)

• Douglas Adams
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all)
• Margaret Atwood
  • The Handmaid's Tale
• Julian Barnes
  • The Sense of an Ending
• Eleanor Catton
  • The Luminaries
• Stephen Chbosky
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Janet Frame
  • Owls Do Cry
• Neil Gaiman
  • The Graveyard Book
  • Stardust
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane
• John Green
  • Looking for Alaska
  • An Abundance of Katherines
  • Paper Towns
• Daniel Handler
  • Adverbs
• Eimear McBride
  • A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
• Ian McEwan
  • The Children Act
  • Atonement
  • On Chesil Beach
  • Amsterdam
• Toni Morrison
  • The Bluest Eye
• Patrick Ness
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go
  • The Ask and the Answer
• George Orwell
  • 1984
• Mal Peet
  • Tamar
• Mary Ruefle
  • anything at all
• Alice Sebold
  • The Lovely Bones
• Leslye Walton
  • The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
• Ashleigh Young
  • Magnificent Moon
• Markus Zusak
  • I Am the Messenger