Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel

Susanna Clarke
This book felt as if it were a series of beautiful and intricate pen and ink drawings. It was slow-paced and steady with a wonderful, weird story that was at once fantastical and perfectly ordinary - sort of combination of Jane Austen and Neil Gaiman, both in language and story, very British – and culminating in the kind of ending that ties everything together, is surprising and unexpected and expected and completely satisfying in a way that glossed over any flaws the book had.