(Just a starting place-- there are many good books not listed here!)
| Adams, Douglas | Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down |
| Alexie, Sherman | The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven |
| Alvarez, Julia | How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents |
| Anaya, Rudolfo | Bless Me, Ultima |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid’s Tale |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice |
| Bond, Nancy | A String in the Harp |
| Bauer, Joan | Rules of the Road, Hope Was Here |
| Bradbury, Ray | Farenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, others |
| Brooks, Terry | Shannara series |
| Burn, Olive Ann | Cold Sassy Tree |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Ender's Shadow |
| Colfer, Eoin | Artemis Fowl |
| Cooper, Susan | The Dark is Rising series |
| Cormier, Robert | The Chocolate War, I am the Cheese, others |
| Crichton, Michael | Andromeda Strain, Sphere, Jurassic Park |
| Dickinson, Peter | Eva, Heartsease trilogy, many others |
| Eddings, David | Enchanter’s End Game, others |
| Farmer, Nancy | The House of the Scorpion |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies |
| Guy, Rosa | The Friends |
| Hinton, S.E. | The Outsiders |
| Hobbs, Will | Down River |
| Holt, Kimberly | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town |
| Houston, Jeanne W. | Farewell to Manzanar |
| Jordan, Robert | Wheel of Time series |
| King, Laurie | Beekeeper’s Apprentice, A Monstrous Regiment of Women |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven, Poisonwood Bible |
| Krakauer, Jon | Into Thin Air |
| LeGuin, Ursula | A Wizard of Earthsea trilogy |
| Lipsyte, Robert | The Contender |
| London, Jack | Call of the Wild, White Fang |
| Markandaya, Kamala | Nectar in a Sieve |
| Marsden, John | Tomorrow When the War Began |
| McKillip, Patricia | The Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy |
| McKinley, Robin | Beauty: A retelling, The Hero and the Crown |
| Mowat, Farley | Never Cry Wolf |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Monster, Fallen Angels, others |
| Namioka, Lensey | Ties that Bind, Ties that Break |
| Nix, Garth | Sabriel, others |
| Nolan, Han | If I Should Die Before I Wake |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | Freaky Green Eyes |
| Paton Walsh, Jill | Fireweed, Parcel of Patterns, others |
| Pierce, Meredith Ann | The Darkangel, Gathering of Gargoyles |
| Potok, Chaim | The Chosen, The Promise, My Name is Asher Lev |
| Pratchett, Terry | The Wee Free Men, Carpe Jugulum, others |
| Pullman, Philip | The Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass, others |
| Rawlings, Marjorie K. | The Yearling |
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter series |
| Salinger, J.D. | Catcher in the Rye |
| Satrip, Marjane | Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood |
| Smith, Alexander McCall | The Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency and others |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Stewart, Mary | Crystal Cave, Hollow Hills, Last Enchantment |
| Sutcliff, Rosemary | The Shining Company, Song for a Dark Queen, others |
| Tan, Amy | Bonesetter’s Daughter, Joy Luck Club |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Silmarillon |
| Townsend, Sue | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole |
| Wallace, Rich | Shots on Goal, Wrestling Sturbridge |
| Watson, Larry | Montana 1948 |
| Westall, Robert | The Machine Gunners, others |
| White, T.H. | The Once and Future King |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | If You Come Softly |
| Yolen, Jane | Children of the Wolf, Dragon's Blood, many others |