Great Book Dedications!

Here are 30 book dedications that are probably just as good as the book.

Included in this amazing round up are Tobias Wolff, John Steinbeck, Charles Bukowski, and C.S. Lewis.

Here is one from A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genuis:

First of all:
I am tired
I am true of heart!
And also
You are tired.
You are true of heart!

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Ashley Perez lives, writes, and causes trouble in Los Angeles. She has a strong affinity for tattoos, otters, cat mystery books, and actual cats, but has mixed feelings about pants. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She runs the literary site Arts Collide and does work of all varieties for Women Who Submit, Entropy, Jaded Ibis Press, and Why There Are Words. You can find her on Twitter at @ArtsCollide.

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