Really Good Fiction

Here is a list of books that I book talked for a bunch of classes. A student asked me to write a list. These titles are all really good - in my opinin.

Adams, Douglas –The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy (and sequels)
Anderson, Laurie Halse – Speak
Anonymous – Go Ask Alice
Atwood, Margaret – Alias Grace
Blume, Judy - Forever
Brashares, Ann – The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (and sequels)
Bray, Libba - A Great and Terrible Beauty (and sequel)
Burgess, Anthony – A Clockwork Orange
Carr, Caleb – The Alienist
Chobsky, Stephen – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Coupland, Douglas – Miss Wyoming
Girlfriend in a Coma
Crutcher, Chris – The Crazy Horse Electric Game
The Sledding Hill
de los Santos, Marissa – Love Walked In
Duncan, Lois – Down a Dark Hall
Killing Mr. Griffin
Eugenides, Jeffery – The Virgin Suicides
Frey, James - A Million Little Pieces
Garden, Nancy – Endgame
Hopkins, Ellen - Burned
King, Stephen – The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Stand
Misery
Klosterman, Chuck – Fargo Rock City
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
Koertge, Ron – Stoner and Spaz
Krovatkin, Christopher – Heavy Metal and You
Mac, Carrie – The Beckoners
McBride, James – The Color of Water
McCourt, Frank – Angela’s Ashes
McCormack, Patricia – Cut
Meyer, L.A. – Bloody Jack (and sequels)
Moore, Alan – V for Vendetta
Watchmen
Morris, Mary McGarry – Vanished
Parkhurst, Caroline – The Dogs of Babel
Rice, Anne – Interview With the Vampire (and sequels)
Salinger, J.D. – Nine Stories
Sebold, Alice – The Lovely Bones
Sones, Sonia – Stop Pretending
Things My Mother Doesn’t Know
Sparks, Nicholas – The Notebook
Thomas, Rob – Rats Saw God
Westerfield, Scott – Uglies (and sequels)
Whitcomb, Laura – A Certain Slant of Light
Vonnegut, Kurt – Slaughterhouse Five
Fahrenheit 451
Zusak, Markus – I am the Messenger
The Book Thief