i've had a thing for walter moers for a while now, but i have to say that the city of dreaming books is probably his best novel to date. particularly because of the section on booklings and orming. booklings are cycoplean creatures who live deep in the catacombs under Bookholm, and devote their lives to memorizing the complete works of an author after which they're named. i don't know how this was accomplished in the german, but in the english translation (of the german translation from zamonian), the booklings' names are anagrams of the names of real-world authors. thus: Perla la Gadeon:

Hear the loud Bookholmian bells --
brazen bells
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
how they screamed out their affright
Too much horrified to speak,
they can only shriek, shriek...

and Bethelzia B. Binngrow (an albino bookling with a watery red eye), among many other delightfuls. this guy here has compiled a list of all of them -- i confess that there are a few which escape me, but i haven't given up yet.