№ 01
“One of my favourite books in the world.” source
Bestselling fantasy author
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman is the bestselling author of The Sandman, American Gods, Coraline, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. He has run a public reading journal at journal.neilgaiman.com since 2001, written introductions and blurbs for authors he loves, and given long-form talks and essays crediting the books that shaped him. The picks below come from his own words.
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№ 02
“A beautiful, brilliant meditation on art, love, inspiration and what makes life worthwhile.” source
№ 03
“There are all sorts of writers of all sorts of nightmares, but M.R. James wrote the best ghost stories.” source
№ 04
“I found it compelling, fantasy as extended metaphor. The main character's internal life was so moving I loved it.” source
№ 05
“The Earthsea trilogy made me look at the world in a new way, imbued everything with a magic that was so much deeper than the magic I'd encountered before then. This was a magic of words, a magic of true speaking.” source
№ 06
“The finest work of English fantasy written in the last seventy years.” source
№ 07
“He called a book of short stories The October Country. It's the perfect Bradbury title. It gives us a time, and not just any time, but the month that contains Hallowe'en, when leaves change colour from green to flame and gold and brown, when the twigs tap on windows and things lurk in the cellars, and it makes it a country.” source
№ 08
“There are stories I read as a boy that I regretted reading because I could not unread them. Bradbury's stories were not like that. I read them, and each of them changed me a little.” source
№ 09
“The Lord of the Rings was, most probably, the best book that ever could be written.” source
№ 10
“A complicated story, as much written for adults as for kids.” source
№ 11
“Quite simply the best writer for children of her generation.” source
№ 12
“Tricky and brilliant and heartfelt and dangerous. Nobody else made myths real and valuable in the way Roger Zelazny could.” source
№ 13
“Leiber's portrayal of Odin and Loki definitely smudged into and informed my take on the characters.” source
Readers with overlapping taste
