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All my favourite books are here, either for their extraordinary literary quality or for some memorable impact they had on me personally. This is the literal "top shelf" on my bookcase, usually comprised of luxury editions and first printings hunted down to preserve and treasure.

Cover Title Author
Tim O'Brien: The Things They Carried (1990, Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence)The Things They Carried
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Hardcover, 1984, Harper & Row)The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Yann Martel: Life of Pi (Paperback, 2003, Harvest Book, Harcourt)Life of Pi
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover, 1986, Houghton Mifflin Company)The Handmaid's Tale
Nicholas Wilde: Into The Dark (1990, Scholastic)Into The Dark
Walter Dean Myers: The Legend of Tarik (1981, Viking Press)The Legend of Tarik
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves (2000, Pantheon Books)House of Leaves
Robert R. McCammon: Boy's Life (Hardcover, 1999, Tandem Library)Boy's Life
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: The Yearling (1938)The Yearling
William Wharton: Birdy (Hardcover, 1978, Alfred A. Knopf)Birdy
Haruki Murakami: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (2011, Penguin Random House)Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Iain M. Banks: The Wasp Factory (1998)The Wasp Factory
Walter Wangerin, Jr.: The Book of the Dun Cow (Paperback, 2003, Harper & Row)The Book of the Dun Cow
Walter Wangerin, Jr.: The Book of Sorrows (1996, Zondervan)The Book of Sorrows