Here's my list of books I would put on my imaginary table:
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
Moon Called - Patricia Briggs
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Language of the Night - Ursula K. Le Guin
Bellwether - Connie Willis
The Complete Pollysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
A History of Reading - Alberto Manguel
Black and Blue - Ian Rankin
The Bone Doll's Twin - Lynn Flewelling
The Terror - Dan Simmons
If You Want to Write - Brenda Ueland
Lonely Werewolf Girl - Martin Millar
Mistress of the Art of Death - Ariana Franklin
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - Kate Summerscale
Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, vols 1 and 2
Beauty - Robin McKinley
Sorcery and Cecelia, or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot - Patricia C Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
One For the Money - Janet Evanovich
Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg
Animal-Speak - Ted Andrews
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Forty Words for Sorrow - Giles Blunt
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Dreams Underfoot - Charles de Lint
Side-Tracked - Henning Mankell
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
In the Garden of Iden - Kage Baker
Fatherland - Robert Harris
Spiritual Tarot - Signet E Echols, Robert Mueller, and Sandra A. Thomson
**bonus: Medicine Cards by Jamie Sams - the best cards for working with animals, ever.
So......could I tempt you in to coming by my table? Could I talk you into trying a book or two?
