pretty much anything by each one of these authors is something that I would read again, since I tend to read all of an author's work if I like him or her. (I confess, I have NOT read all of Dickens).
some of them are considered children's books, but whatever....
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
The Vet's Daughter by Barbary Comyns
The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr
Yonnondio by Tillie Olsen
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
The Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Hearts and Lives of Men by Fay Weldon
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Homesick by Jean Fritz
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
The Secret Parts of Fortune by Ron Rosenbaum
Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier
The Collected Stories of John Cheever
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank & Ernestine Gilbreth
The Music Room by Dennis McFarland
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Hearts and Lives of Men by Fay Weldon
Female Trouble by Antonya Nelson
Among the Missing by Dan Chaon
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Runaway by Alice Munro
Andorra by Peter Cameron
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Theories of Everything by Roz Chast
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
