my 'read' shelf:
Some books I enjoy . . .-Pride and Prejudice
-Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy
-Sula
-Never Let Me Go
-Trainspotting
-Tales of the City
-The Bride Price
-Anything by Anna Maxted (hey, I can study English and still like chicklit, okay?)
Children's Lit I find particularly deserving of merit:-The Neverending Story
-Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence
-Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain
-Madeleine L'Engle's stuff
-The Princess and the Goblin
-Ronia the Robber's Daughter
-Konrad
-Lemony Snickett's Series of Unfortunate Events
Short stories that are awesome:-James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"
-Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"
-"The Neclace by Guy de Maupassant"
-Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
Comic books/graphic novels:-Fables
-Whedon's Astonishing X-Men
-DC's Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer
-Persepolis
-Ghost World
-Maus