Stories are like genies…They can carry us into and through our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do.
Our stories can set us free…When we set them free.
–Francesca Lia Block
An extensive and ongoing list.
Authors:
Neil Gaiman
Francesca Lia Block
Stephen King
Catherynne M. Valente
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oscar Wilde
Jack Kerouac
Beatrix Potter
The Brothers Grimm
Hans Christian Andersen
Roald Dahl
Louisa May Alcott
Books:
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Keesey
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Into the Wild by John Krakauer
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
The Time Quartet by Madeleine L’Engle
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice
The Imajica by Clive Barker
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Deerskin by Robin McKinley
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
the Ivy Cottage books by E. J. Taylor
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Poets:
Walt Whitman
E.E. Cummings
Emily Dickinson
Sylvia Plath
Margaret Atwood
Anne Sexton
William Butler Yeats
Mary Oliver
