I finished Murakami’s “Sputnik Sweetheart” today and I think I’m going to take a break from reading considering it was so wonderful that I have to just let it marinate in my head for a few days before starting on something new.

Current All-Time Favorites

in no particular order:

• White Oleander by Janet Fitch
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini

I highly recommend these books to anyone who hasn’t read them!