Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1)

Catherine Mack

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)

Django Wexler

The Spellman Files (The Spellmans #1)

Lisa Lutz

Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)

George MacDonald Fraser

Beat the Reaper (Peter Brown, #1)

Josh Bazell

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

The Third Policeman

Flann O'Brien

The Princess Bride

William Goldman

Ship of Theseus

J.J. Abrams

Guards! Guards!

Terry Pratchett

Babel

R.F. Kuang

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons, #1)

Jenn Lyons

The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

Jasper Fforde

Saint Death's Daughter (Saint Death, #1)

C.S.E. Cooney

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)

Terry Pratchett

The Mezzanine

Nicholson Baker

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Terry Pratchett

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1)

Jay Kristoff

The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus, #1)

Jonathan Stroud

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

Heather Fawcett

Starling House

Alix E. Harrow

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke