(It’s hard to stop. If you were ten years old and I had three minutes to fill your backpack with books, the ones I’d pick would be The Westing Game, The Giver, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Egypt Game, The Twenty-One Balloons, and The Princess Bride. Rebecca Makkai is the author of the novels I Have Some Questions for You, The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, and the story collection Music for Wartime. Of this list, there are a few I’d certainly recommend more than others. It is also, almost certainly, incomplete. Most are for children around Ian’s age, but some are for adults, and two are for very young children. This is a list of one particular thing: the real books and book series mentioned by name. There are also many authors and poets mentioned. There are several book parodies, where Lucy starts narrating in the style of a famous book. There are quite a few fake books mentioned by (fake) name. The Borrower By Rebecca Makkai 336 pages Viking Adult Available at: Barnes & Noble IndieBound How could any reader of any age resist Rebecca Makkai's charming The Borrower (Viking), a novel that tracks the relationship between a 20-something librarian and a 10-year-old boy with punitive parents. There are many more books in The Borrower alluded to but not mentioned by name. Download The Borrower Book List You can also see it below: Chapter 1 Matilda (Roald Dahl) Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder) Fantastic Mr. I didn’t until a lovely reader named Sharon Cox actually went through the whole book and wrote down all the ones she could find. Since The Borrower appeared in 2011, I’ve had a number of people ask if I have a list of all the books Lucy gives Ian.
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