Hot off the presses
- Frank Delaney’s Ireland
- Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife
Contemporary fiction
- Margaret Atwood’s anything, especially The Blind Assassin
- AS Byatt's anything, especially the Frederica Potter tetralogy
- Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated
- John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient
Poppycock? Maybe. Page turners? Definitely.
Classics and could-be-classics
- Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield
- Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair
- DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
SciFi that makes sense
- Zenna Henderson’s Ingathering: The Complete People Stories
- Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers
Young Adult for real adults
- Judy Blume’s anything
- Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series
- John D. Fitzgerald’s Great Brain series
- Madeline L’Engle’s Austin and Wallace family series
- Mercedes Lackey’s Arrows series
- CS Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia
- Lois Lowry's The Giver
- Anne McCaffrey’s Harper Hall of Pern series
- LM Montgomery’s Anne and Emily series
- Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and Sally Lockhart series
- JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series
- Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Rob Thomas' Rats Saw God
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