I donât know if this has been done, but if it has, then weâll just be adding to it, wonât we? If everyone could please reblog this with any of the following books:
Add one (fiction) book that you think everyone should have
Add one book that you loved as a child
Add one non-fiction book (history, cookbook, biography, etc.
Add the book you go to when you are sad, and donât want to read something new
Add a book that makes you laugh
Add a book that has strong and smart male AND female characters
Add a book in the genre of historical fiction
Add the first book you would pack if you were about to go traveling
A short story/ collection of short stories
It can be one someone else has said, because that just means that itâs well loved.
How about I start us off?
A tough guide to fantasyland, By Dianna Wynne Jones, Because that book makes every other book twelve times funnier
The ordinary princess, By M.M. Kaye, Because it made being a brown-haired, freckled, gangly thing with an upturned nose and an overbite seem WAY more fun than being a perfect princess
Vintage cakes, by Julie Richardson, because, vintage. Cake. Vintage cakes
The unicorn chronicles, By Bruce Coville, because they are pure and unabashed fantasy, but they arenât predictable or bland
The long patrol, By Brain Jacques, because Redwall Issachar a consistent, pleasant, and familiar world
The wee free men, by Sir Terry Pratchett, because imagine hundreds of tiny, blue, lawyer-hating, Scotsmen, fighting the forces of evil
The circle of magic series, By Tamara Pierce, because Briar could whoop you butt just a well as Daja.
The auslander, By Paul Dowswell, because teenage German rebels, sticking it to the nazis, and escaping to Sweden
Cart and cwidder, By, Dianna Wynne Jones, because it is an engaging fantasy novel about traveling!
O. Henry. Anything he wrote, because they end up in the absolute LAST place you thought they would go
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, By Tom Stoppard, because it is absurd, and the characters are so lovable.
J.R.R. Tolkien, obvious, i know, but, obvious for a reason
It will make for a nice list of recommendations. Overpack your thriftbooks shopping cart