Books that mattered...

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The War of the Saints - Jorge Amado
Shark Dialogues - Kiana Davenport
Crucible of War: the Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 - Fred Anderson
The White Company - Arthur Conan Doyle
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity - Jill Lepore
Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones - Carlin Barton
The Egypt Game - Ziphia Keatley Snyder
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konigsburg
The Dark is Rising -