Bookface has been quiet for a very long time. But he now emerges to recommend some inspirational reading. . . The best sourcebook on gnomes money can buy. Get it here. Shrooms are funny until your gnome eats one and dies. Get it here . All you really need to know about fantasy tropes, circa 1967. Get it here . All you really need to know about fantasy tropes, circa 2006. Get it here . Space & shit, circa 1986. Get it here . Space & shit, circa 1998. Get it here . Your hedge witch's big book o' cures & cantrips. Get it here . Pliny the Elder's first edition Monster Manual, by way of the Middle Ages. Get it here . A contemporary cryptid collection, organized by continent. Best monster? Troll Monkey. T ROLL. MONKEY . Get it here . This book is actually pretty cool, but it came out a few years after DiTerlizzi's Spiderwick Chronicle tie-in field guide (which I also recommend but