Books help me to breathe.  As I read ones I deem excellent, I'll record them here:

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Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
The Good Mayor - Andrew Nicoll
Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures - Vincent Lam
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
The Stone Diaries  - Carol Shields
Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
Persuasion - Jane Austin
Jane Eyre - Charolotte Bronte
Atonement - Ian McEwan
March - Geraldine Brooks
Ahab's Wife - Sena Jeter Naslund
The MemoryKeeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
Burning Bright - Tracy Chevalier
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier
The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The King's General - Daphne DuMaurier
The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart (juvenile fiction)
The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Perilous Journey - Trenton Lee Stewart (juvenile fiction)
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
What the Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
Abundance - Sena Jeter Naslund
All of the Barefoot Contessa cookbooks (I love this woman's food.)
All of Nigella Lawson's cookbooks (I adore her meandering writing.  It's stream-of-consciousness for foodies.)
Chocolat - Joanne Harris
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters - Jane Austin and Ben H. Winters
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austin and Seth-Something-Or-Other
The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott - Kelly O'Connor McNees
The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte - Syrie James
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen - Syrie James
Villette - Charlotte Bronte
Ruth - Elizabeth Gaskell
Emma Brown - Clare Boylan
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Trinny and Susannah - The Body Shape Bible - Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine
Trinny and Susannah - What You Wear Can Change Your Life - Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine
Perelandra - C.S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis
Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen
The Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Blackberry Wine - Joanne Harris