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1. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
2. The Princess and the Goblins by George MacDonald
   
3. A Great Big Ugly Man Came Up and Tied His Horse to Me by Wallace Tripp
   
4. The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
   

Books that changed my life

1. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
   
2. The Gospel according to St. John
3. Fireflies by Rabindranath Tagore
   

Books that threw me to the floor in laughter

1. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
2. Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
   
3. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
   

Books that caught me sniffling and misty-eyed

1. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
   
2. Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa
   
3. River of Grass by Marjorie Stoneman Douglas
4. The Passion Gospels (every time, every year)
   

Books to quietly rip up and gently flush down the toilet

1. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
   
2. A Day No Pigs would Die by Robert Newton Peck
   
3. Wonderful, Wonderful Times by Elfriede Jelinek
   

 Random favorites

1. The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan
   
2. Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin
   
3. The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
4. Nativity Poems by Joseph Brodsky
   

 Currently Reading

1. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
   
2. Apostle to Zaire: the Life and Legacy of Blessed Father Cosmas of Grigoriou
3. Irresistible Revolution by Shane Clairborne
   
4. The Epistle to the Romans
5. The Book of Psalms
6. American Poetry Review
   

 Books to read before I die (yes, all in their original language)

1. Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
   
2. The Kalevala
   
3. The Aeneiad
4. Kebra Nagast
5. Beowulf