Here are some of my favorite authors and books:
Short Stories:
Dubliners by James Joyce
Collected Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, William Faulkner
Poetry:
Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Billy Collins, William Blake, Elizabeth Bishop, Stephen Crane, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many, many more!
Fantasy:
The Sevenwaters Series by Juliet Marillier
Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Sci-fi:
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
The Handmaid's Tail by Margaret Atwood
Anything by Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, or Jules Verne
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Gothic/Horror/Monster:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Beowulf
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Green Mile by Stephen King
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Super-Challenging Reads
(These are both high in text and content difficulty. These can contain mature themes.)
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
Absalom, Absalom! or The Sound and the Fury or Light in August by William Faulkner
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Dubliners by James Joyce
Collected Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, William Faulkner
Poetry:
Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Billy Collins, William Blake, Elizabeth Bishop, Stephen Crane, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many, many more!
Fantasy:
The Sevenwaters Series by Juliet Marillier
Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Sci-fi:
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
The Handmaid's Tail by Margaret Atwood
Anything by Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, or Jules Verne
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Gothic/Horror/Monster:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Beowulf
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Green Mile by Stephen King
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Super-Challenging Reads
(These are both high in text and content difficulty. These can contain mature themes.)
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
Absalom, Absalom! or The Sound and the Fury or Light in August by William Faulkner
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Beloved by Toni Morrison