Livre d'Or

I have seen the film, bugshaw gave it to us as a wedding present. I'm certainly intrigued to try the book as well.

I am sure you will get on well with The Black Opera, but in the spirit of the meme: how about Geoff Ryman's The child garden? Very good, very much assuming serious SF literacy, but there's a chance it's obscure enough that you might not have read it already.