Top 15 Most Influential Books

[artykat]

Ganked from anjea

Don't think about these too much. Choose fifteen books you have read that will always stick with you - the first fifteen you can recall in no more than a few minutes. Copy the instructions into your own post.

Comments

[vaysha]

oh you!
I read broken for you a while back- it was SUCH a beautiful and unusual story.
I loved it so much.

[artykat]

OH I love that book so much. I listened to the audio version (unabridged of course) and it was just so good. I have the hardback too. You are one of the few people I know who have read it!

[vaysha]

I have this bunch of books I've read called "books that found me"- there is a free section in the library and the book found me there. It's such a treasure.

May I suggest an author and some titles you might adore?

Sheri Reynolds " A Gracious Plenty and she also did Rapture of Canaan. I'd love to hear what you think of her if you decide to look for them.

♥

[artykat]

I'm doing my reading on my Kindle as it works better for me with my arthritic wrists and hands. I couldn't find A Gracious Plenty, but did find three other books, including Rapture of Canaan. She looks like an author I might really enjoy! Rapture of Canaan looks really good!

thank you for suggesting her! I have all three books' samples on my Kindle now, to try. YAY!

I love that..."Books That Found Me." I'll need to start a list!

[anjea]

I feel...wow. I haven't read any of those! Yikes!

[bojojoti]

Horton Hatches the Egg
Little Women
Trixie Belden
Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
Tomorrow’s Children
Edgar Allan Poe short stories
Sherlock Holmes
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
A Wrinkle in Time
Rebecca
Jane Eyre
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Lord of the Rings
The Bible

My Quick List

[daisytells]

Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Dark is Rising Series - Susan Cooper
Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
Hawaii - James A. Michener
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Left Behind - LaHaye and Jenkins
When We Were Very Young - A. A. Milne
Mary Poppins - P. L. Travers
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
USA - John Dos Passos
Mid Century - John Dos Passos
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky