Favorite books

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A top-twenty list of my favorite books.  This is basically a list of books that most influenced me (in partly chronological, partly greatest influence):

1. Animorphs by Kathleen Applegate
2. Harry Potter by Joanne Kathleen Rowling
3. Lord of the Rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkein
4. Ender's Game/Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
5. Left Behind (all of them) by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
6. A Coal Miner's Bride (Dear America series) by Susan Campbell Bartoletti 
7. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
8. The Red Tent by Anita Diamanti
9. Beauty by Robin McKinley
10. North to Freedom by Anne Holm
11. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
12. The Outsiders  by S.E. Hinton
13. A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
14. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
15. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman