People tend to ask me what my favorite book is a lot. it’s one of those standard questions – what’s your favorite color, what music do you listen to, etc., etc. It’s really hard for me to pick one specific book as my favorite, since my favorites tend to change every month. But here are the best books I’ve ever read, books I read over and over again and recommend to my friends and give to people as gifts. In no particular order:
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Ariel is the book that originally turned me onto poetry. For most of my life, having been force fed lots of crappy children’s poems and Robert Frost (oh, how I despise him), I found poetry to be a useless genre. But, the summer before my junior year, I read Ariel for a class assignment, and it was nothing like any poetry I’ve read before. Sylvia Plath’s poetry is beautiful, dark, and (most importantly) brief, never overstaying its welcome, and this is undoubtably her finest work, and my favorite book of poetry.
