I’m often asked what my favorite book is. That’s a hard question to answer because I have many favorites and I’m always adding to the list. Also, it depends on my mood on any particular day. I read books in multiple genres, for children, teens, and adults, binging out as I discover new authors or revisit old favorites. That said, here is a partial list:

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Ms. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and everything else by John Green

The White Cat (Curse Workers) trilogy by Holly Black

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Blue Envelope Series by Maureen Johnson

The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

American Gods, Anansi Boys, The Graveyard Book, and anything else by Neil Gaiman

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row and anything else by John Steinbeck

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

Me Talk Pretty One Day and anything else by David Sedaris

The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch

The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden

Bellwether by Connie Willis

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Holes by Louis Sachar

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld