All Down Darkness Wide by Sean Hewitt

Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir by Frances Mayes

Anything by Margaret Atwood

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Bliss and A Cup of Tea, short stories by Katheryn Mansfield

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst

The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

Anything by Truman Capote, especially A Christmas Memory