You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
400
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
428
I happen to believe every story is a love story if you catch it at the right moment, slantwise in the light of dusk.
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
668
Stories wanted to be read, David’s mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
940
Nineteen years before she decided to die, Nora Seed sat in the warmth of the small library at Hazeldene School in the town of Bedford.