1. Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli - because it's okay to be weird and that's beautiful
2. The Help, Kathryn Stockett - the different points of view and the stunning comments about the South
3. Handle with Care, Jodi Picoult (or rather anything written by her) - just because I love her as a writer. And the moral issues that she makes you front in every single book - makes you readdress what is right and wrong.
4. Atonement, Ian McEwan - what is real and what is not real? War and love and the important stuff. The ending of the book.
5. Wit, Margaret Edson - it's so personal and real. It makes you face death up close and person.
6. "The Tell Tale Heart," Edgar Allan Poe - or anything by Poe because it's so shocking and horrifying yet beautiful.
7. Corrie Ten Boom - that one book she wrote about her time in a concentration camp in the Holocaust and seeing kindness even in the middle of so much evil.
8. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte - love, darkness, and sophisticated chick flick that doesn't have a happy ending - that's rare.
9. "The Yellow Paper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman - because we're all a little crazy sometimes and it's so real.
10. "Good Country People," Flannery O'Connor - it's gothic southern literature. It's horrifying and shows the dark and weird side of the South.
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