Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.  Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx  

These are a Few of My Favorite Things . . .

 

A. S. Byatt, Possession.	Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens	Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
E. L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night	Donna Tart, The Secret History
Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years	Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog