Recommended Books

Pauperfish's Recommendations 
 
Manga I Really Loved that Made Me Blind to Any of Their Flaws

• Beauty Pop
• Cat Street
• Doubt!!
• Fruits Basket 
• Hajimari no Niina 
• Hana no Kishi 
• Hana to Akuma
• Her Majesty's Dog
• Ipaasha (one-shot)
• I Wish...
• Godchild
• Lovely Complex
• Ludwig Revolution
• MeruPuri 
• NG Life
• Othello
• Otomen
• Penguin Revolution
• Pita Ten
• Rasetsu no Hana
• Savage Garden 
• Six Half 
• Suna no Shiro 
• The Tarot Cafe
• Usotsuki Lily

Good manga that said it loved me then ran out on me and effectively broke my heart:

• Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan (You bastard, I knew it could only lead to tears but I still hoped for a happy ending.)

Furbies: Manga so terrible that you have to shove them into the proverbial closet never to be seen again

• Renai Shinjuu

Non-Shoujo Recommendations

• Claymore (shounen)
• ES by Souryo Fuyumi 
• Silver by Fujita Kazuko

BL Recommendations

• Sakura Gari (Yuu Watase's first and only BL)
• The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese and the sequel, the Carp on the Chopping Block Jumps Twice
  

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Shojo manga I really enjoy ~

• Alice the 19th
• Alice in the Country of Hearts/Clover/Joker/where ever the hell she feels like being in (it's bishi-tastic I know but I love my eye porn ~)
• Beauty Pop
• Night of the Beast
• Skip Beat