The Graveyard Book

As a teacher, I reserve the right to read great kiddie and YA literature, so...

Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book (just received a well-deserved Newberry Medal). The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Oscar Wilde) and on my adult bookshelf, Hardboiled and Hard Luck (Banana Yoshimoto - her writing is just so clean!)

-Sarah Weissman, assistant fiction editor