62. Smoke and Mirrors, by Neil Gaiman.

Smoke and Mirrors is a book of short stories by Neil Gaiman. I enjoy his short stories because they are very readable, and they usually have a very interesting, rather odd premise to be built off. This book of stories is no exception, although I'd read a few of them before in various other collections. Topics range from little old ladies buying the Holy Grail from a charity shop, to darkly tinted rewrites of classic fairytales.

My favorite stories from this book were Nicholas Was, The Price, We Can Get Them For You Wholesale, The Sweeper of Dreams, and Fifteen Painted Cards From A Vampire Tarot, which in itself is a bunch of complementary little fragments, and not a whole story. Much like the book itself. Neil Gaiman is very good at doing stories that flirt with the idea of real life - they're just outside the borders of the real world, but close enough that it's easy to imagine they might be real. I look forward to reading more of his books in the future.