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**************BOOK REC LIST**************
Must Read
Elie Wiesel's "Night"
Joanne Greenberg's "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden"
Martha Rofheart's "Fortune Made His Sword"
Ellen Raskin's "The Westing Game"
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens"
Should Read
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Blizzard's Wake
Lois Lowry's Number the Stars
Sharon Creech's The Wanderer
Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted
Cynthia Voigt's Dicey's Song [and the rest of the Tillerman cycle]
Lois Lowry's Gathering Blue
Alyson Noel's Radiance
Something better than Twilight
Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy series
Lauren Kate's Fallen series
P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast's A House of Night series
Something without Vampires
Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie's Wicked series
Alyson Noel's Immortals series
Cassandra Clare's "Mortal Instruments" series & her "Infernal Devices" series
Classics
The Song of Roland
J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye"
S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders"
J.D. Salinger's "Nine Stories"
John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
Dante's "Inferno"
Naturally everyone's tastes are different and whatever. I read a lot of Young Adult books. All of the "must read" books, with the except of two of them, were read for school curriculum requirements.
Of course this is also a work in progress and will constantly be added to.
this isn't even a third of all the books i've read in my life.
**************ANIME REC LIST**************
Must Watch
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Clannad
Clannad ~After Story~
Rose of Versailles
Should Watch
Slayers [all five seasons]
Cowboy Bebop
Gundam Wing
Gundam in general [except SEED and anything affiliated with it]
Miyazaki films in general
Les Miserables -Shoujo Cosette-
Rurouni Kenshin [especially the OAVs]
Sailor Moon
Good way to waste time
Hakushaku to Yousei
Gravion
Excel Saga
s-CRY-ed
If you like shoujo and long, drawn out series...
Fushigi Yuugi
Saiunkoku Monogatari
if you're into BL...
Sukisho! [possibly the best BL series I've ever watched because there is PLOT and it does not suffer from Everyone is Gay trope]
Gakuen Heaven
If you can ignore the flaws...
Weiss Kreuz [Kapitel, Gluhen, OAVs] [I would put this under BL, but it's technically not. Even so, I think they're lying when they say it's not.]
Classics
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**************MANGA REC LIST**************
Coming soon.