My favorite classic is To Kill A Mockingbird.
My favorite that I've read lately was Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
Love everything by Elizabeth Berg, Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta novels, I like all that BBrit Chick Lit:Bridget Jones, Shopaholic series, Jane Green etyc.
Marian Keyes has some good books
Gracelin O'Mally, The Tea Rose, The Other Boleyn Girl
For cheesy romance<g> I love Suzanne Brockman
When I was a kid I adored The Bobbsey Twins, I had tons of them. LOL
Also liked Encyclopedia Brown, all Judy Blume books, all Beverly Cleary books..and I am blanking on the names but there was a series of books about a little girl named Betsy<?> who has a sister named Star.
There was a series of books about twins, a book about Dutch twins, one about Indian twins etc and I liked those alot too.
That All of a Kind Family sounds SO familiar, I must have read it as a child, as well.