5? Just five? How is that possible? 5 poetry or 5 novels? Yikes! I’m sweating already! Books I read over and over again is a tough criteria to narrow down but here is my fiction list AND poetry list:

Some fiction is so poetic in a way that I cheated and made two TOP 5 lists–
1) Ender’s Game by Card
2) To Kill a Mockingbird
3) Life of Pi by Mann
4) Sula by Morrison
5) City of Thieves by Benioff

Here is the TOP 5 poetry MUST READ list:
1) Collected – Jane Kenyon
2) Volume 1 – Mary Oliver
3) Collected – Lisel Mueller
4) Rose – Li-Young Lee
5) What Work Is and/or Collected – P. Levine