A few good books worth your time...
- The Folk Keeper, by Franny Billingsley
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson
- The Oxboy, by Anne Mazer
- Repossessed, by A.M. Jenkins
- Mysterious Skin, by Scott Heim
- Ten Thousand Saints, by Eleanor Henderson
- The Marbury Lens, by Andrew Smith
- The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
- Dangerous Angels, by Francesca Lia Block
- Little Black Book of Stories, by A.S. Byatt
- The Monstrumologist, by Rick Yancey
- The Evil B.B. Chow, by Steve Almond
- In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O'Brien
- Kindness for Weakness, by Shawn Goodman
- The Sweet Hereafter, by Russell Banks
- Close Range, by Annie Proulx
- Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett
- I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, by William Gay
- Distant Star, by Robert Bolano
- Under the Feet of Jesus, by Helena Viramontes
- Castle, by J. Robert Lennon
- The Dew Breaker, by Edwidge Danticat
- Skellig, by David Almond
- The Cement Garden, by Ian McEwan
- Reality Boy, by A.S. King
- The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden
- Child of God, by Cormac McCarthy
- The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean
- Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
- A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
- The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Spiral, by Paul McEuen
- The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
- The Swimming-Pool Library, by Alan Hollinghurst
- Matilda, by Roald Dahl
- After Life, by Rhian Ellis
- The Realm of Possibility, by David Levithan
- The Life and Loves of a She Devil, by Fay Weldon
- The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
- Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne-Jones
- The Dark is Rising Sequence, by Susan Cooper
- Where I'm Calling From, by Raymond Carver
- Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Connor
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, by Benjamin Alire Saenz
- Beloved, by Toni Morrison
- Veronica, by Mary Gaitskill
- Skin Hunger, by Kathleen Duey
- The Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling
- The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, by J.T. Leroy
- Pretty Monsters, by Kelly Link
- Feed, by M.T. Anderson
- The Informers, by Bret Easton Ellis
- The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
- Cleaning Nabokov's House, by Leslie Daniels
- His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman
- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, by George Saunders
- Tom Finder, by Martine Leavitt
- Tales of Outer Suburbia, by Shaun Tan
- Zigzagger, by Manuel Munoz
- Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
- Tyrell, by Coe Booth
- Jesus' Son, by Denis Johnson
- Refresh, Refresh, by Benjamin Percy
- Dogtag Summer, by Elizabeth Partridge
- The Humming Room, by Ellen Potter
- The Collected Stories, by Amy Hempel
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
- Gringolandia, by Lyn Miller-Lachmann
- Blink & Caution, by Tim Wynne-Jones
- Asylum, by Patrick McGrath
- The Night in Question, by Tobias Wolfe
Whoa! That's a lot of books. Please check out a few of them at your local library or bookstore. I totally promise you will not be sorry.