15 books...
...no more, no less.
1. The Page Twin series (Whitehill)
2. The Betsy-Tacy books (Lovelace)
3. Little Women/Little Men/Jo's Boys (Alcott)
4. Little House books (Wilder)
5. The Secret Garden (Burnett)
6. Lord of the Rings etc. (Tolkien)
7. The Once and Future King (White)
8. The Amber series (Zelazny)
9. Bullfinch's Mythology
10. Arabian Nights (Burton translation)
11. Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
12. Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein)
13. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Heinlein)
14. The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Doyle)
15. The Rubiyat of Omar Khayham
It seems that what I read young stays with me...and that I have a real love of series books. (#16 would be the Oz books by Baum...)
The Meme: List the first 15 books you think of that have had the greatest influence on you. (This should be fast -- no more than 15 minutes!)
1. The Page Twin series (Whitehill)
2. The Betsy-Tacy books (Lovelace)
3. Little Women/Little Men/Jo's Boys (Alcott)
4. Little House books (Wilder)
5. The Secret Garden (Burnett)
6. Lord of the Rings etc. (Tolkien)
7. The Once and Future King (White)
8. The Amber series (Zelazny)
9. Bullfinch's Mythology
10. Arabian Nights (Burton translation)
11. Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
12. Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein)
13. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Heinlein)
14. The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Doyle)
15. The Rubiyat of Omar Khayham
It seems that what I read young stays with me...and that I have a real love of series books. (#16 would be the Oz books by Baum...)
The Meme: List the first 15 books you think of that have had the greatest influence on you. (This should be fast -- no more than 15 minutes!)