(aka books that if my apartment burned down I would immediately rush out to replace, books that I've read more times than I can count, books that are a security blanket between two cardboard covers, books that have shaped and changed my life, books that are simply the best of the best)
-Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
-Garden Spells; The Sugar Queen; The Girl Who Chase the Moon; The Peach Keeper; by Sarah Addison Allen
-Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
-The Secret Garden, by Francis Hodgson Burnett
-Teen Idol, by Meg Cabot
-Heist Society; Uncommon Criminals, by Ally Carter
-Graceling, by Kristin Cashore
-Graffiti Moon; A Little Wanting Song, by Cath Crowley
-Just Listen, by Sarah Dessen
-Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
-The Chocolate Kiss; The Chocolate Touch; A Rose in Winter, by Laura Florand
-The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
-Best Laid Schemes, by Emma Jensen
-The Ordinary Princess, by M.M. Kay
-The Winter Sea, by Susanna Kearsley
-With This Ring, by Carla Kelly
-The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
-The Book of Bright Ideas, by Sandra Kring
-To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
-Jellicoe Road; the Lumatere Chronicles (especially Finnikin of the Rock), by Melina Marchetta
-The Sevenwaters Trilogy (especially Heir to Sevenwaters), by Juliet Marillier
-Everything by Robin McKinley (but especially Beauty, Rose Daughter, Spindle's End, Sunshine, The Blue Sword, The Hero and the Crown, Chalice)
-The Countess Conspiracy; The Suffragette Scandal, by Courtney Milan
-The Sky Is Everywhere; I'll Give You the Sun, by Jandy Nelson
-The Junie B. Jones series, by Barbara Park
-Anna and the French Kiss, by Stephanie Perkins
-Romancing Mr. Bridgerton, by Julia Quinn
-Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
-How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff
-The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
-Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare
-The Scorpio Races, by Maggie Stiefvater
-Paranormalcy, by Kiersten White
-Dealing with Dragons (and the rest of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles), by Patricia C. Wrede
And some poets I have to mention to be fair:
e.e. cummings
John Donne
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edna St. Vincent Millay
