Have you ever felt that something made an everlasting impression on you? That something stood out to you? That it communicated to you in its own special way?
Books can do that.
I am a fairly well-read student, and I have enjoyed an immense number of books. This is a list, in no particular order, of some of my favorites. I promise you, that they are all worth your time!
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Auguste Maquet and Alexandre Dumas
The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Elizabeth Orczy
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak
Piano Lessons, by Anna Goldsworthy
Matilda (and every other book by Roald Dahl)
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
Going After Cacciato, by TIm O’Brien
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo
The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Peter and the Starcatcher, by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers
My Brother Sam Is Dead, by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier
My Piano, My Life: The Life of Jacqueline Gourdin, by Robert Erickson
Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Rifles for Watie, by Harold Keith
A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking
The Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling (I re-read the series many, many times in middle school.)
Have fun, and happy reading!
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