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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Slaughterhouse-Five
House of Leaves
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
Pale Fire
The Princess Bride
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
Breakfast of Champions
Cloud Atlas
Redshirts
The Name of the Rose
Sophie’s World
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
The Neverending Story
The Blind Assassin
The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon StoneHarold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett JohnsonOlivia by Ian FalconerKnuffle Bunny by Mo WillemsYou Might Be Special! by Kerri Kokias
Playful Picture Books
50 books — 6 voters
The New York Trilogy by Paul AusterIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezPublic Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
Tips for a Borges Lover
19 books — 12 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Stories For Book Lovers
8,331 books — 8,211 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
My favourite books about books
149 books — 82 voters
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiGood Omens by Terry PratchettInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Footnotes!
102 books — 75 voters

Laurie Calhoun
I detected a relish in their application of little details, the brushstrokes being added to their work of art as it progressed from a simple line drawing to an ornately decorated and multi-layered, palimpsest painting.
Laurie Calhoun, You Can Leave: a novel

Ashim Shanker
The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.
Ashim Shanker, Only the Deplorable

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