Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Some of the world’s greatest books were written for children and Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland takes, for me, pride of place in that pantheon. Carroll’s surreal fictional world maybe full of games and riddles and bizarre characters but it is Alice herself with whom we engage – the knowing innocent, adrift in an illogical world over which she has no power (until she destroys it, of course).
Without this book opening up the possibilities of fiction to me, I would never have become a writer.