Our Lists of Favourite/Life-Changing Books

(Please let me know if I've made any mistakes!)

Denise

• From Anna by Jean Little
• It by Stephen King
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Beach Music by Pat Conroy
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Rachel

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin

Julia

• Anne of Green Gables (series) by L. M. Montgomery
• Anything by Thomas Hardy
• My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

Hannah

• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
• Lord of the Rings (trilogy) by J. R. R. Tolkein
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Tanya

• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• The Fawn by John Marston (did I get this right, Tanya?)
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
• My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• 1984 by George Orwell
  

Sarah

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
• Christopher Reeve biography (Sarah, can you let us know which one? I got a huge list when I Googled it!)
• An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
  

Lois

• My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
• Maeve Binchy's earlier books
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Tara

• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Misery by Stephen King
• Lord of the Rings (trilogy) by J. R. R. Tolkein

Sue

• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
• No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
• Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibbs
• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
• Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

Patti

• Suncatchers by Jamie Langston Turner
• Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
• Restoration by Ted Griffith
• Garden Gate by Patti Hill (Patti, did I get this right? Couldn't find this one on Google Books)

Elsa

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Long Winter (or any book from the Little House on the Prairie series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• The Dead Zone by Stephen King
• Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

Sherri

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Anything by L. M. Montgomery
• Earlier books by Maeve Binchy
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• You are Special, Just the Way You Are, Because I Love You, etc. by Max Lucado