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Chime, by Franny Billingsley. Not a fan of the cover, but this is one amazing book.

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The Princess and the Goblin

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The Lover's Dictionary. His twitter feed is also incredible: twitter.com/...

Pride and Prejudice board book. (no, really)

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The Rough-Face Girl

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The Bearskinner

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The Golden Book of Fairy Tales

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The Hero and the Crown

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The Princess Bride (first you laugh, and then you laugh even harder)

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The Goose Girl (and everything by Shannon Hale, and read her blog)

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Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen is one of the best wordsmiths I've ever read.)

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Alec Forbes of Howglen (this book is so precious. and you might learn some broad Scotch.)

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Ragman - and other cries of faith (This book is for you and you and you.)

The Message in the Bottle (not to be confused with the Nicholas Sparks thing)

The Masqueraders (Everything by Georgette Heyer is funny and darling.)

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The Magician's Elephant (Get this book. Read it aloud to someone you know. No, it doesn't matter if they are a child or not.)

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Death on a Friday Afternoon (because Lent begins next month, and this book changed my life.)

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The Violent Bear It Away (and anything ever written by Flannery O'Connor)

The Princess and the Goblin (required reading for life)

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The Ordinary Princess (Darling book from the best moments of my childhood.)

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Anna Karenina (Just read the half about Levin. Anna is stupid.)

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Godric (a book to read and read again, and then some)

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A Wrinkle In Time (and every other book she has ever written, amen)

As I Lay Dying (favorite Faulkner)

Mystery and Manners (for writers with heart, creators with faith)

The Book of Lost Things (I have a conspiracy theorists' compulsion to buy this book. Every time I see it, I pick it up like it's brand new.)

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Till We Have Faces (this is number one)

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The Book of the Dun Cow (under appreciated National Book Award winner)

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The Tale of Despereaux

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The Little Prince (of course)

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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: The Pox Party (ummm... shockingly amazingly amazing)

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The Graveyard Book (the British cover is better. But this is an amazing book.)

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The Great Divorce (not actually about divorce. common misconception.)

Book of a Thousand Days (it's so very good)

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On Fortune's Wheel (first and best of all the YAs)

Sunshine (the paragon of vampire novels)

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The Periodic Table (heavy, but incredible)

Autobiography of a Face

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Salamander (a book for people who love books)

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