Here are a few of my favorite books or books that have significantly impacted me.
Fantasy/YA
Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith
Sorcery and Cecelia by Caroline Stevermer and Patricia C. Wrede
Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn
The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
Cybele’s Secret by Juliet Marillier
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
The Native Star by MK Hobson
The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Realistic Fiction/YA
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
Historical Fiction/Memoir
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery
My Family for the War by Anne C. Vorhoove
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Classics
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Childhood Influences
Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Horse and His Boy by CS Lewis
The Seventh Tower series by Garth Nix
A Wrinkle in Time series by Madeleine L’Engle
Dear America series by various authors
Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene
