Mine would absolutely be A Psalm for the Wild-Built. A tea monk meets a wild robot in a world long past robots gaining sentience and the two take off together in search of purpose. The frank discussions of the meaning of life, of friendship, and of belief healed something in me.

I'm obliged to share with everyone one of my favorite interspecies friendships--that of my bearded dragon Valerian, who loves warm and soft things, and my cat Willow, who loves the scritchy scratches she gets from tiny lizard claws snuggling into her for warmth. Here they are on a bright spring day.

This is Willow, aka belly girl, a fixture of my desk

My two baby owls also say hello