This is really a loaded question for someone who works in a library! I have lots of favorite authors...depending on the genre. We just had a questionnaire go around for a "staff pick" display at our library.
Here are some of my favorite books--books that somehow changed my view of the world or, at least, have stuck with me for years and years:
- Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Scarlet Letter and Rapuccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Any of the Post Secret books compiled by Frank Warren
- Garden Spells, The Girl Who Chased the Moon, The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
- Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, Emily's Quest by L.M. Montgomery -- This trilogy is by the same author as the Anne of Green Gables. The Anne series is good, but the Emily series is AWESOME! I read this three or four times between fourth and seventh grade...they are that good!
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
- Charlie's Monument by Blaine M. Yorgason -- This book is out of print, but if you can get it for kindle or maybe find a used copy. I've read this book seven or eight times. It is about 100 pages but it teaches so many lessons about overcoming adversity.
- Kaki Warner -- good, solid western romance
- Jayne Ann Krentz / Amanda Quick -- same writer who writes under different pen names
- Marianne Stillings
- Linda Howard
- Robyn Carr
- Jennifer Crusie
- Carly Phillips
- Jo Davis
- Kate Angell
- Rachel Gibson
- Susan Donovan
- Stacey Kayne -- She only has about 4 books published, but I sure wish she would write more!!
- Lori Foster
- Jill Shalvis
- Lora Leigh
- Bella Andre
- Shiloh Walker
- Lucy Monroe
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