The Magician's Nephew (C.S. Lewis)

Weird addition to this list, but I was in a Narnia kick after rewatching the movies. Reading the book that canonically happened before the first movie, I'm able to appreciate the returning motifs, like the significance of the lantern and the wardrobe (and Digory!).
I am aware that the books are Christian-coded, but the way magic is written in this series is so beautiful, I had to read it. Don't think I'm going to be reading the whole series though.

The lamp-post which the Witch had planted (without knowing it) shone day and night in the Narnian forest, so that the place where it grew came to be called Lantern Waste; and when, many years later, another child from our world got into Narnia, on a snowy night, she found the light still burning.