Book Meme - stolen from KtG
Book Meme
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.
1. "The Eight" - Katherine Neville (first hero I fell in love with and partially made my own nickname from)
2. "Blue Moon Rising" - Simon Green (first and almost only pure fantasy book I have ever loved, also introduced me to Green's world of sarcasm mingled with laughter)
3. "Lightning" - Dean Koontz (the plot revolves around one of my pet theories of life)
4. The HP series (nuff said)
5. "The Magician's Nephew" - C.S Lewis (aside from Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe this is my favourite of all his books)
6. "Dark Prince" - Christine Feehan (yes yes, I am sorry! but this was one of the first vampire romances I ever read and it has always stuck with me
7. "Mine to Take" - Dara Joy (one of the first steamy romance books I ever read)
8. "The Lady's Tutor" - Robin Schone (ditto with Mine to Take)
9. "Goodnight Mistor Tom" - Michelle Magorian (one of the best WW2 set children's stories I have EVER read. I still read it and cry to this day)
10. "Merryl of the Stones" - John Marsden (another teenage High school set reading book, possibly the only other foray into pure fantasy that I have ever enjoyed. I still own my Yr 8 copy of this and read it periodically)
11. A huge list of Georgette Heyer novels - Masqueraders, The Grand Sophy, These Old Shades, Devi's Cub, Sylvester, etc etc (I went through a huge time of reading historicals, I still reread these quite regularly and love my copies to death.)
12. "Here be Dragons" - Sharon Penman (possibly the best ever Robin Hood Era (1200s England and Wales) historical/factual fiction/romance book I have ever read.)
13. "Naked in Death" - JD Robb (where it all started. When I get upset/depressed or after having read a particularly hard book I still go back to this series and this book in particular and comfort read)
14. "The Stars of Mithra" series - Nora Roberts (for the quote alone of "when he first saw her all he immediately thought of was "There you are, where the hell have you been?" ... that was when the hero first met the heroine)
15. "The Doomsday Book" - C. Wellis. (an awesome fiction book set in facts about the Black Death. Bloody awesome book.)
And done with 5 minutes to spare. I could probably add on at least another 5 books, but these are definitely enough to be going on with. :)