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Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
In no particular order except the first:
1. Stuart Little: because it's the first book I ever read because I wanted to and not because it was required. I went immediately from that to everything by Georgette Heyer I could get my hands on.
2. Darwath Trilogy by Barbara Hambly. If I have to stick with a single title: the first in the series - Time of the Dark. I adore these books. The concept, the writing, everything.
3. Teot's War by Heather Gladney, (and the 2nd book Bloodstorm). Incredible characters and unique world-biulding. Like the Darwath Trilogy, these are books I've bought more than one copy of (hell, more than 2 or 3) over the years and re-read on a regular basis.
4. The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren. The first LGBT book I ever read where they were the main characters. The ending absolutely destroyed me.
5. Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf. I was never a shy, retiring flower because of my size, but this book totally opened my eyes.
6. Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard: the original book that started it all. My brother had the whole series and I went looking for something to read. It's what began my love of fantasy and scifi.
7. War for the Oaks by Emma Bull: Laurell K Hamilton might have brought urban fantasy more firmly into the light, but this book is what started it all for me.
8. In Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke: besides the fact that I adore everything the man writes, it introduced me to mysteries. I'd been pretty much a fantasy/scifi gal with side forays into historical romances before that.
9. A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by Linda Schele and David Freidel: I'd had an interest in the ancient Maya before, but this cemented the fascination. It also induced a big crush on Linda Schele, a fascinating, forceful and intelligent woman who died prematurely of pancreatic cancer a couple of years ago. She practically single-handedly restructured the face of Maya studies with her unique vision, her ability to encourage others and her generosity in sharing knowledge that was an example for countless others.
10. The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization-Christian, Islamic, and Judaic-From Constantine to Dante : A.D. 325-1300 (The Story of Civilization, vol 4) by Will Durant: a mammoth series of books that taught me that history could be fascinating instead of a collection of dry, dusty facts.
11. The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey: one of the titans of fantasy. 'Nuff said.
12. Jeanne Rose's Herbal Body Book by duh! Jeanne Rose. The first book on herbs and body care that I read. Even though I don't use it much any more, it began a fascination that's lasted many years.
13. Photographing Wildlife by Pat Caulfield: When I lived in Wisconsin (the land of much more wildlife than northern Missouri) and began my fascinating with photography, this was the first book I bought. It's still treasured.
14. Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes: the memoirs of a young army wife in the untamed wilds of late 1860s Arizona. Fascinating, very readable, first hand glimpse of a woman's life in another time.
15. The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up by Charles Nelson: I'm old enough to have been impacted by the Vietnam War, but it never really made an impression on me until the movie Platoon came out. This book came out shortly after and incorporated my new interest of the war with the still rare lack of books on gays. It also opened my eyes to a new form of writing because the whole thing is told in a series of letters to 5 different people who get a very different glimpse of the protagonist's experience in Vietnam.
Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
In no particular order except the first:
1. Stuart Little: because it's the first book I ever read because I wanted to and not because it was required. I went immediately from that to everything by Georgette Heyer I could get my hands on.
2. Darwath Trilogy by Barbara Hambly. If I have to stick with a single title: the first in the series - Time of the Dark. I adore these books. The concept, the writing, everything.
3. Teot's War by Heather Gladney, (and the 2nd book Bloodstorm). Incredible characters and unique world-biulding. Like the Darwath Trilogy, these are books I've bought more than one copy of (hell, more than 2 or 3) over the years and re-read on a regular basis.
4. The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren. The first LGBT book I ever read where they were the main characters. The ending absolutely destroyed me.
5. Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf. I was never a shy, retiring flower because of my size, but this book totally opened my eyes.
6. Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard: the original book that started it all. My brother had the whole series and I went looking for something to read. It's what began my love of fantasy and scifi.
7. War for the Oaks by Emma Bull: Laurell K Hamilton might have brought urban fantasy more firmly into the light, but this book is what started it all for me.
8. In Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke: besides the fact that I adore everything the man writes, it introduced me to mysteries. I'd been pretty much a fantasy/scifi gal with side forays into historical romances before that.
9. A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by Linda Schele and David Freidel: I'd had an interest in the ancient Maya before, but this cemented the fascination. It also induced a big crush on Linda Schele, a fascinating, forceful and intelligent woman who died prematurely of pancreatic cancer a couple of years ago. She practically single-handedly restructured the face of Maya studies with her unique vision, her ability to encourage others and her generosity in sharing knowledge that was an example for countless others.
10. The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization-Christian, Islamic, and Judaic-From Constantine to Dante : A.D. 325-1300 (The Story of Civilization, vol 4) by Will Durant: a mammoth series of books that taught me that history could be fascinating instead of a collection of dry, dusty facts.
11. The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey: one of the titans of fantasy. 'Nuff said.
12. Jeanne Rose's Herbal Body Book by duh! Jeanne Rose. The first book on herbs and body care that I read. Even though I don't use it much any more, it began a fascination that's lasted many years.
13. Photographing Wildlife by Pat Caulfield: When I lived in Wisconsin (the land of much more wildlife than northern Missouri) and began my fascinating with photography, this was the first book I bought. It's still treasured.
14. Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes: the memoirs of a young army wife in the untamed wilds of late 1860s Arizona. Fascinating, very readable, first hand glimpse of a woman's life in another time.
15. The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up by Charles Nelson: I'm old enough to have been impacted by the Vietnam War, but it never really made an impression on me until the movie Platoon came out. This book came out shortly after and incorporated my new interest of the war with the still rare lack of books on gays. It also opened my eyes to a new form of writing because the whole thing is told in a series of letters to 5 different people who get a very different glimpse of the protagonist's experience in Vietnam.