- The Hobbit (2-3 times. At least twice in seventh grade.)
- Dangerous Angels (4-6 times. Picked up while volunteering at the Ferguson Library. Haven't put down since. My favorite book.)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (2 times. Once for school, once because of reasons.)
- The Princess Diaries (2 times. Also picked up at the library.)
- A Wrinkle in Time (3 times. Once all at once, while sitting in Standsted Airport overnight, waiting to fly to Italy to see Sarah.)
- Beowulf (2-3 times, at least twice for different classes.)
- The Canterbury Tales (2 times, some stories more than that. At least part of it was read while IN Canterbury.)
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (3-6 times. The first book I read that taught me one could simultaneously function within the rules of AND satirize a genre. Douglas Adams is one of my heroes.)
- Harry Potter (anywhere between 2 and 6 times, depending on the book.)
- Twilight (3-5 times, depending on the book.)
- The Great Gatsby (2 times in completion, though I took a crit course in college that made us apply all the different types of criticism TO Gatsby, so... more than 2).
- Peter Pan (millions. I was obsessed in 8th grade.)
Books I wouldn't read again if you paid me:
- The Red Badge of Courage (it gave me nightmares)
- The Scarlet Letter
- Ethan Fromme
- Pride and Prejudice (still gives me nightmares)
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Lord of the Flies (which I have read twice and hated both times.)
- Most of what I was supposed to read in 11th grade.
- Most of what I was supposed to read in any English survey course in college.
Books I will never stop recommending
- See List #1 (Save, perhaps, for Twilight.)
- The Princess Bride
- Zen in the Art of Writing
- For that matter, anything by Ray Bradbury, especially Dandelion Wine.
- A Series of Unfortunate Events
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- John Green's entire body of work
- The Courtship of Princess Leia (for the rancors!)
- Seriously, Peter Pan.
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