Some of my favorite books

Young-Adult / Children's

Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

Fantasy & Science Fiction

Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy

John Gardner, Grendel

Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed

Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun

Literature

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream

Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

George Eliot, Middlemarch

Shusaku Endo, Silence

Rudyard Kipling, Collected Stories

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Collected Poems

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Stendahl, The Red and the Black

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, Martir

History

Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll

Garrett Mattingly, The Armada

Memoirs

John Cardinal Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua

George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

Art Spiegelman, Maus and Maus II