Novels I need in my life

• The Perks of Being a Wall Flower
• The Fault in Our Stars
• The Night Circus
• House of Leaves
• The God of Small Things
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
• The Borrowers
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Coraline
• Guardians of Childhood
• Howl's Moving Castle
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Handmaid's Tale
• The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
• Dorothy Must Die
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
• Shadow and Bone Trilogy
• Wildwood
• Attachments
• More than This
• The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
• Tell the Wolves I'm Home
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane
• Wonder
• Fortunately, The Milk
• Beautiful Ruins
• The Goldfinch
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
• Ship of Theseus
• This One Summer
• One More Thing
• Blankets
• I am a Cat
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret
• Fan Art
• One Man Guy
• The Miniaturist
• The Somnambulist
• Gillespie and I
• Elijah's Mermaid
• The Palace of Curiosities
• The Thirteenth Tale
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle
• Keeper (by Kathi Appelt)
• Starry River of the Sky
• A Tale Dark & Grimm (A Tale Dark & Grimm #1)
• Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey #1)
• The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime #2)
• The Book of Lost Things
• Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
• The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To
• I Am the Messenger
• The Shadow Year
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Trouble by Non Pratt
• Openly Straight
• Something Like Summer
• Falling From The Sky
• Hikikomori (Bear Parade #9)
• The Boy Detective Fails
• The Box Of Delights
• The Folio Society Editions (e.g. His Dark Materials)
• Egghead
• The Big Summer
• Horten's Incredible Illusions: Magic, Mystery & Another Very Strange Adventure (Stuart Horten #2)
• Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
• Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time (Dinotopia)
• A Light in the Attic
• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
• Paperweight
• Fans of the Impossible Life
• More Happy Than Not
• Between the Notes

Graphic Novels

• Blankets
• This One Summer
• Anya's Ghost
• The Undertaking of Lily Chen
• The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
• The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil
• Castle Waiting, Vol. 1 (Castle Waiting Omnibus Collection #1)
• The New Ghost
• Three Shadows
• Mother, Come Home
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
• Shortcomings (Optic Nerve #9-11)
• The Arrival (by Shaun Tan)
• The Wrong Place
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis #1-2)
• Daytripper
• The Strange Tale of Panorama Island
• My Dirty Dumb Eyes
• Neverland's Library
• Jane, the Fox and Me
• Hilda and the Midnight Giant (Hilda)
• Shadow (by Suzy Lee)
• The Heart and the Bottle
• Once Upon a Northern Night
• Virginia Wolf
• Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
• The Nao of Brown
• The Infinite Wait and Other Stories
• Fart Party
• Capacity (by Theo Ellsworth)
• Very Casual
• Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed?
• AEIOU: Any Easy Intimacy (The Girlfriend Trilogy #3)
• Lighter Than My Shadow
• Heads Or Tails
• Nijigahara Holograph
• Boxers & Saints
• Amulet
• A Monster Calls
• Hook, Line and Singer
• Grow Up (by Ben Brooks)
• The Tiny Wife (by Andrew Kaufman)
• Kimberly's Capital Punishment
• Billy and Me
• The Drowning of Arthur Braxton
• The Bunker Diary
• No One Belongs Here More Than You
• Bed (by Tao Lin)
• Self-Help (by Lorrie Moore)
• My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro
• Submarine (by Joe Dunthorne)
• The Knot (by Mark Watson)
• The Visitors (by Rebecca Mascull)
• The House that Groaned
• Safari Honeymoon
• Beautiful Darkness

Art Books and Graphic Novels

• Choo artbook
• The spirit and the gardener (Rii Abrego)
• Nimona
• Always Raining Here
• My Neighbor Hayao
• Hasyagu in the Philippines (and other Hasya art books)
• Tea Dragon Society
• Nobrow books
• CDQ (Character Design Quarterly by 3DTotal Publishing)
• The art of Heikala
• Wonder: The Art and Practice of Beatrice Blue
• Rêverie: The Art of Sibylline Meynet

Art Books and Resources

• Floriography: An illustrated guide to victorian language of flowers
• The complete language of flowers: A definitive and Illustrated History
• Flowwerpaedia: 1000 flowers and their meanings
• A Victorian flower dictionary: The language of flowers companion
• Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, plants and trees
• Botanical Folk Tales (Schneidau)
• A Natural History of Fairies (Emily Hawkins)
• Plantopedia: The definitive guide to house plants
• Plant Lore and legend: The wisdom and wonder of plant and flowers revealed
• The Book of Youkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese folklore
• Draw your day: an inspiring guide to keeping a sketch journal
• How to draw almost every day: an illustrated sourcebook
• How to draw modern florals (Alli Koch)
• 50 ways to draw your beautiful ordinary life (flow publishing)
• books by 3dtotal publishing
• Fearless World Traveler
• Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover
• The Look Of The Book: Jackets, Covers, And Art At The Edges Of Literature

Coffee Table Books

• Classic Penguin (Paul Buckley)
• Lodestars Anthology
• Accidentally Wes Anderson
• My Neighbor Hayao
• Kinfolk Table
• Water, Wood, and Wild Things
• Gallery of Clouds
• Consent
• Outline (Rachel Cusk)

(Other plant books)

Fun Books and Journals

• Wreck this Journal
• Finish this Book
• This is not a Book
• Mess
• How to be an Explorer of the World
• Q&A a Day: 5 year Journal
• Living out Loud
• The Secret Me
• The non-planner datebook
• This Book will change your life
• 642 Things to draw
• Picture of Me: Who I am in 22 questions
• 365: A Daily Creative Journal
• Tear Up this Book
• The Happy Book
• All About Me
• One Line a Day
• Keep Calm and Carry On
• 344 Questions
• The Book of Awesome
• Let's Pretend this Never Happened
• I Hate Everything
• The Official Dictionary of Sarcasm
• 642 Things to Write
• I Hate Everything Journal
• You might be a zombie
• Cyanide and Happiness
• Sh*t my Dad says
• All my Friends are Dead
• The Snark Handbook
• Cards against Humanity
• World War Z
• The Zombie Survival Guide
• If Ignorance is Bliss
• The Happiness Project
• Rip the Page!
• Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
• Extraordinary Endings
• Ever Wonder Why?
• Steal like an Artist
• Everything that can Happen in a Day
• Life's Little Instruction Book
• The Book of Answers
• The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories
• A Pug's Guide to Dating
• A Cat's Life
• The Story of an Hour
• It's a Punderful Life
• What I Wore Today
• Nobrow
• I Enjoy Being a Girl
• Penguin's Poems for Life
• Penguin's Poems for Love
• Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
• Shakespeare's Star Wars
• The Annotated Books
  • The Annotated Brothers Grimm
  • The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen
• Cats are Weird and More Observations
• Serious Drawings
• Cat VS Human
• I Could Pee on This
• I am Maru
• Little Book of Letterings
• Thinking with Type
• Elegantissima
• How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul
• Paper Cutting
• Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers
• If I Were A Book
• How to Swear Around the World
• The Indie Rock Poster Book
• The Indie Rock Coloring Book
• Smitten: The Way of the Brilliant Flirt
• You're only Human
• 101 Moments of Joy and Aspiration
• Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Draw Your Own Alphabet
• Daily Rituals
• Neurocomic
• An Extraordinary Theory of Objects
• F*ck! I'm in My Twenties
• You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack: Cartoons
• I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow
• The Principles of Uncertainty
• Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing
• Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock
• Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting
• Just my Type
• Thinking with Type
• The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
• The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
• Mad Dogs & Englishmen: A Year of Things to See and Do in England
• Tired of London, Tired of Life: One Thing A Day To Do in London
• My Ideal Bookshelf
• Princesses Behaving Badly
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
• Know Your Onions - Graphic Design: How to Think Like a Creative, Act like a Businessman and Design Like a God
• Sketchbook by Kate Beaton
• Draw to Learn: Français!
• Draw to Learn: Español!
• The Book of Virtues for Young People: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
• Secondhand and Vintage (London, Berlin, etc)
• The Word Lover's Journal: A Do-It-Yourself Dictionary of Your Favorite Words
• 100 Ghosts
• Everything Is Going to Be OK
• Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books
• The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You
• A Reader's Manifesto
• The Vintage Tea Party Book
• How to Be a Person: The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself
• What the Hell Are You Doing?: The Essential David Shrigley
• Make Good Art
• Typography Sketchbooks
• Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe
• Baby's in Black: Astrid Kirchherr, Stuart Sutcliffe, and The Beatles
• Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
• Start Here: Read Your Way Into 25 Amazing Authors
• My Life in Middlemarch
• Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology
• Zombies Vs. Unicorns (Killer Unicorns)