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.