Bookshelf: 
recent, future and forever loves 

Middle Grade:
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Harry Potter by JK Rowling
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
(Anything by) Roald Dahl
Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner

YA:
Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness
The Ember Series by Sabaa Tahir
(Anything by) Leigh Bardugo
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamande Adichie
The Lunar Chronicles by Marrisa Meyer
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Rebel of the Sands & Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton

Beyond 'merica:
Don't Let's go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller
What is the What by Dave Eggers
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
City of Thieves by David Benioff
The Cukoo's Calling by *ahem* Robert Galbraith
The English Patient and Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

'mericana:
Cold Mountain and Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
The Bluest Eye and Beloved by Toni Morrison
Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zoey by JD Salinger
The Road and All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

On Writing:
Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
On Writing by Stephen King