Jane Mount and Thessaly La Force asked more than 100 writers, chefs, architects, musicians, actors and other cultural celebrities to select a small shelf of books to represent them — the books that made each of them who they are today, their "favorite favorites." Mount and La Force then crafted the selections and commentary into a delicious coffee-table book that reminds us of the fiercely possessive way we readers feel about the books that transformed, delighted and inspired us.

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