My Definitive Bookshelf

I keep a particular shelf of the books that I like to look through frequently--specifically, the books that I can credit with having changed my life or been landmarks in my reading history. Some of them are changed around fairly often as my priorities change, but some are mainstays. Here is the list of the books that currently stand on this shelf, in no particular order.

• Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux 
• The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 
• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer 
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster 
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 
• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan 
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo