Meme Lemming: 15 Books

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Gakked from afteriawake: Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

As I thought of them:

1. The Bible -- I have several different translations/versions of the Bible and I'm not going to pick a specific one.


2. The Black Stallion by Walter Farley


3. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett


4. The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien -- Yes. I consider them all one book.


5. The Sackett Brand by Louis L'Amour -- I'm a huge L'Amour fan and I had a very hard time with this because I love a lot of his books, but I can't justify listing them separately. I could have listed Flint or the Kilkenny series... but The Sackett Brand is always one of the first of his books that comes to mind when I think of L'Amour.


6. How Fletcher was Hatched by Wende and Harry Devlin. I still have my original copy and despite all the tape, it is falling apart.


7. Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi


8. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell -- What I love best about this book is that people often get upset if I list it as a favorite or as a book I find influential. Many actively try to discourage me from liking it. Controversy. It's a good thing.


9. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle


10. Whip Hand by Dick Francis -- as with L'Amour, I had a hard time picking one book, but Whip Hand was the first novel of his I ever read and even beyond enjoying the story, it impressed me with how powerful a tool first person POV can be.


11. Animal Farm by George Orwell -- by far a more prophetic book than 1984


12. Odyssey by Homer


13. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons -- I have problems with the storyline and underlying story of the book, but it sticks with me, if only because I love parts of it as much as I hate others.


14. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens


15. The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry I actually have the old, single volume book edited by XJ Kennedy. I also have XJ Kennedy's Talking Like the Rain which is an anthology of poems for children. Both are amazing.

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[talkingtocactus.livejournal.com]

i totally agree about animal farm, one of my all time favourites :)