Through the Magic Door

“I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns.  Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world…, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more… There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks.” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This page is the list of all of my “noble, silent comrades”, my all-time favorite books, linked to their pages on Goodreads.  Since this is a living list, the titles aren’t in any order.

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• The Merchant Adventurer by Patrick E. McLean
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• These is My Words by Nancy Turner
• The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers
• The Stranger by Max Frei
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• A Crown for Cold Silver by Alex Marshall
• Bohemian Gospel by Dana Chamblee Carpenter
• Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge
• The Circle by Dave Eggers
• Greenglass House by Kate Milford
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Abarat by Clive Barker
• The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
• The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Of Bone and Thunder by Chris Evans
• The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
• The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
• Shadowmagic by John Lenahan
• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
• Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• Doctor Who: Time Lord Fairy Tales by Justin Richards
• Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree