Books That I Love.   List created on 2-22-01.
I've only included ones I'm sure of, not things I read ages ago and loved at the time, but don't really remember and don't know for sure if I'd like now. I'll add more; this is a beginning. And yes, about half of them are "children's books"—in theory at least.
       
      Cruddy, an illustrated novel by Lynda Barry. From 1999.
I just finished reading this. It is fantastic and mind-blowing and perverse. People should know about it! Lynda Barry is so good.

        Olivia by Olivia (pseudonym of Dorothy Strachey). From 1933.
This is out of print! Appalling.

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. From 1944.
I read it the summer of 1991 and never really recovered.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. From 1955.

The Complete Short Stories of Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung. Contains: The Amateur Cracksman (1899), The Black Mask (1901) and A Thief in the Night (1905). Raffles is my hero. Also out of print, apparently...

        People One Ought To Know written by Christopher Isherwood and illustrated by Sylvain Mangeot. From 1925. Again, out of print! Good grief! Why are three of my all-time favourite books out of print?!

Arm In Arm: A Collection of Connections, Endless Tales, Reiterations, and Other Echolalia, written and illustrated by Remy Charlip. From 1969. At least Arm In Arm is back in print again! Yes!! This was my favourite book as a young child—no wonder I'm so warped. I still think it's one of the coolest books ever. A psychedelic classic.

      Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. From 1971.

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor. From 1949.

        A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. From 188-something? My favourite book as a girl. Very powerful.

The Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by John Tenniel. With Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner. Meridian, 1960.

Winnie-the-Pooh (and) The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. From 1926 and 1928.

      The Little Prince written and illustrated by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. From 1943.
       
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