Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry plunges the reader into an intergalactic fairytale featuring a little prince from another planet who questions life and human nature. “On ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux,” says the little prince (“One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye”). It is hands down the most beautiful book I’ve ever read.  I read it as a kid, then as an adult – and certainly will read it with my own kids.

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Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld is one of the most engaging books I’ve read in recent years. It follows main character Lee Fiora, a teenager who wins a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, leaving her comfortable Indiana existence for a world in which she is the outsider, in more ways than one. It is a coming-of-age novel among the best I’ve read. Lee is one of those characters that you love from page one and are truly sad to let go on the last page.

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