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Adult Books
  •  Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 
  • Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
  • Atlas Girl by Emily T. Wierenga
  • Embrace Me by Lisa Samson
  • Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  • Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
  • Tiger Lillie by Lisa Samson
  • The Storyteller by Jodi Piccoult
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
  • Handle with Care by Jodi Piccoult
  • Keeping Faith by Jodi Piccoult
  • Silver Linings by Matthew Quick
  • the Bible, especially the book of Ephesians

Children's Novels and Picture Books

  
  •  Her Shining Eyes by Jeanette Morris
  • The Graduation of Jake Moon by Barbara Park
  • Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
  • Pinky Pye by Eleanor Estes
  • Ida B by Katherine Hannigan
  • Wonder by R. J. Palacio

  • Russell the Sheep by Rob Scotton (love, love these illustrations)
  • Olivia by Ian Falconer
  • Good Night Good Knight by Shelley Moore Thomas
  •  That Pesky Dragon by Julie Sykes



Young Adult Books
  • Between the Lines by Jodi Piccoult
  • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  • My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult
  • Feed by M.T. Anderson
  • The Pigman by Paul Zindel


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