270+ of the Books You’re Most Thankful For
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In the spirit of upcoming holiday thankfulness (and general warm fuzzies), we asked you to name the book you’re most thankful for. We got over 540 responses, and when we combined duplicates and books from the same series, we got a very-big-not-small list of books that warm your hearts. Check out the list below:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
The Enchanted Orchards by Kristin Maddock
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Carrie by Stephen King
The Christian Atheist by Craig Groeschel
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Bible
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
American Girl by Meg Cabot
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Sunset and Sawdust by Joe R. Lansdale
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
The First American by H. W. Brands
The Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Feeling Good by David Burns
The Selection by Kiera Cass
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Tough-Minded Optimist by Norman Vincent Peale
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Complete Works of Shakespeare
The Stand by Stephen King
Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Dia Block
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Face of an Angel by Denise Chavez
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Velvet Room by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole
Horton Hears A Who! by Dr. Seuss
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Tales of Known Space by Larry Niven
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Wonder by RJ Palacio
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Possession by AS Byatt
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
True Selves by Dr. Mildred Bown
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
Psycop by Jordan Castillo Price
Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
Someone to Run With by David Grossman
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
The Enchiridion of Epictetus
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Tao Te Ching
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
Among Others by Jo Walton
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara, Susan McClelland
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
The Rose Horse by Joan Heilbroner, P.D. Eastman
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
More Than This by Patrick Ness
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
The Reason For God by Timothy Keller
Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
Watchers by Dean Koontz
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Shining by Stephen King
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Dombey and Son By Charles Dickens
Quiet by Susan Cain
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach
The Selfish Gene be Richard Dawkins
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno
The Plague by Camus
Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss
No Good Duke Goes Unpunished by Sarah MacLean
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Private by James Patterson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Girl with the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Favourite Game by Leonard Cohen
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Gateway by Frederick Pohl
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and Pat Hancock
Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall
Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Shatter by Michael Robotham
The Care and Feeding of Griffins by R. Lee Smith
It Starts With Food by Melissa Hartwig and Dallas Hartwig
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Odd Girl Out by Ann Bannon
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore
Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Boxcar Children
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Love Wins by Rob Bell
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do by Peter McWilliams
The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider
Ulysses by James Joyce
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L’Engle
Judging a Book by Its Lover by Lauren Leto
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Mondays are Red by Nicola Morgan
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History by Michael H. Hart
The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
Skipping A Beat by Sarah Pekkanen
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
The Razor’s Edge by W. S. Maugham
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Trixie Belden mysteries
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfeld
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Pink Motel by Carol Ryrie Brink
Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
Kill Your Self: Life After Ego by Barry Graham
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
