Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus

In her debut novel, this multimedia artist uses her love of fairy tales to create a magical world. Celia and Marco, both performers, have been cast into a life-long contest that only one of them will survive. Their arena is Le Cirque de Rêves, and as they get older their conjuring becomes ever more sophisticated and dazzling—as does the prose of this transporting fiction.