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phantasmagoria (n): a sequence of real or imaginary images like those seen in a dream.

Why is picking a favorite book so difficult? I think it has something to do with the fact that our favorite books are the ones we see ourselves in. Our favorite books are mirrors.

1. The Innocent Eye by Jonathan Fineberg
2. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
4. Divergent by Veronica Ross
5. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
6. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
7. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
8. A Separate Piece by John Knowles
9. The Length of a String by Elissa Brent Weissman
10. Emma by Jane Austen
11. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
12. One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
13. Song of Achilles by Madelleine Miller
14. Same Kind of Different As Me by Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent, and Ronn Hall
15. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
16. Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman
17. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
18. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
19. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
20. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
21. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
22. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
23. Midnight Library by Matt Haig
24. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
25. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
26. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
27. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
28. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
29. Animal Farm by George Orwell
30. Divergent
31. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 
32. Illusions by Richard Bach
33. The Giver
34. Anne of Green Gables
35.  The Last Girl on Earth
36. How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
37. Six of Crows
38. Ghost by Jason Reynolds
39. Song of Achilles
40. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas or Harry Potter
41. Frankenstein 
42. Dracula by Bram Stoker
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton
44. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
45. The Count of Monte Cristo or the Longstocking Books
46. Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
47. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
48. The Mysterious Benedict Society
49. The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan
50. Twisted Lies by Ana Wong
51. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
52. The Candymakers by Wendy Mass
53. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
54. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
55. The Man From Moscow by Philip McCutchan
56. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
57. Misery by Stephen King
58. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
59. Summer Sisters by Judy Bloom
60. Death in Mud Lick by Eric Eyre
61. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee; 
62. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
63. “I’m a murder mystery guy myself. It intrigues me, because I was in law enforcement, so it catches my attention.”
64. Patricia Cornwell books
65. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
66. Lord of the Flies 
67. Flowers for Algernon by Danial Keyes
68. Lord of the Flies
69. Credence by Penelope Douglass
70. Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong