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Books for the Imaginative
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This is a list of books chosen for imagination, whimsy and escapism. I have included well-known favourites as well as books less frequently seen on lists.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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American Gods
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The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden)
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Big Fish
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Blood Red Snow White (Marcus Sedgwick)
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The Book of Imaginary Beings (Jorge Luis Borges)
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The Bread We Eat in Dreams
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The Chronicles of Narnia
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The Complete Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
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The Darkest Part of the Forest (Holly Black)
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Deathless
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The Discworld Series
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Egg & Spoon (Gregory Maguire)
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A Face Like Glass (Frances Hardinge)
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Fire and Hemlock
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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The Golem and the Jinni
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The Grimm Legacy (Polly Shulman)
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
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Harry Potter Series
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His Dark Materials
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The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
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I, Coriander (Sally Gardner)
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In the Night Garden
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Inkheart
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Italian Folktales
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
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The Labyrinth
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The Little Prince
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The Melancholy of Mechagirl
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Moon-Whales and Other Moon Poems (Ted Hughes)
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The Neverending Story
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Neverwhere
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The Night Circus
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Norse Mythology (Neil Gaiman)
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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann)
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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The Other Alice (Michelle Harrison)
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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Radiance (Catherynne M. Valente)
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