I have some absolutely favorite books of all time that I must share with the world.

I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay
To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
War of the Flowers, Tad Williams
The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
Jack the Bodiless, Julian May
The Buccaneers, Edith Wharton
The Sarantine Mosiac, Guy Gavriel Kay*
Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell
Uncle Boris in the Yukon, Daniel Pinkwater
Catch-22, Joseph Heller*
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
The Deryni books, Katherine Kurtz
Dragonsbane, Barbara Hambly
Up From Jericho Tel, E. L. Konigsburg (and pretty much everything else she’s written)
The Pit Dragon Trilogy, Jane Yolen
How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff*
Dogsbody, Diana Wynne Jones
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
A Little Princess, Francis Hodgson Burnett
Tam Lin, Pamela Dean*
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke*

Authors who are always good:
Diana Wynne Jones
Patricia C. Wrede
Naomi Novik
Daniel Pinkwater
Robin McKinley
Diane Duane
Anne Perry
Nick Bantok
Robert Sabuda
Shannon Hale
And, really, I can’t stress enough how much I love Tad Williams, and Connie Willis, E. L. Konigsburg, and Guy Gavriel Kay.

*These books are for older readers.

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