Booking Through Thursday - Fifteen in Fifteen
I saw this over at Shelley’s, and thought it sounded like a great question for all of you:
“This can be a quick one. Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.”
Ooooo, a challenge. This should be interesting.
1. The Giving Tree - Shell Silverstein
2. The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley
3. Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
4. Speaker of the Dead - Orson Scott Card
5. Xenocide - Orson Scott Card
6. Children of the Mind - Orson Scott Card
7. Abarat - Clive Barker
8. Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg
9. The Missing Piece - Shel Silverstein
10. The Bride series - Catherine Coulter
12. Animorphs series - K.A. Applegate
13. Eddings’ Polgara/Belgarath/etc books
14. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
15. A Piece of Normal - Sandi Kahn Shelton
Woohoo! Did it in ten. Still, that was hard.
These books have special meaning in my life, even though some of them are listed for the fact that I read them multiple times.
I guess you could say that I cheated a bit with the Ender’s series books, but I don’t think so. Sure, they are a series, but they stand out individually in my mind. They taught me an incredible amount and encouraged me to think about how I perceive the world around me. On that merit alone, I think they are worth listing individually.
A couple of those books encouraged me to write. Some helped me through dark times, some taught me the fundamentals of specific genres.
Others still claim influence over my childhood. I have Shel Silverstein to thank for helping me to be a child who knew what it was to give for love and not for reward and to be conscious of how other people feel…
What’s on your list?
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