ビブリア古書堂の事件手帖 (1) ~栞子さんと奇妙な客人たち~

One of my all time favourites.

From start to finish, this book gave me the impression that not a single word was there just because. Every single little descriptive detail, every name, every choice of words did all, without exception, appear again at a later point with a much more profound meaning. Out of the whole book, special mention to the first chapter which is, in my opinion, without a doubt one of the best designed first chapters I've read, though maybe I'm a little biased.