(I swiped this meme from Facebook.)
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.
1984 by George Orwell
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
The Women's Room, by Marilyn French
Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
Bambi, by Felix Salten
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein
A Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman (okay, so that's a poem. It's a long poem.)
Satan Says, by Sharon Olds
Rabbit Run, by John Updike
Green Mansions, by William Henry Hudson
The Great Valley, by Mary Johnston
MacBeth, by William Shakespeare
Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell
The Once and Future King TH White
ReplyDeleteBambi Felix Salten
The Little Engine That Could
King of the Wind Marguarite Henry
Magic Time by Doug Marlette,
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Bible especially Matthew and Acts
The Red Tent
Charlotte's Web EB White
The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The works of Robert Frost
The Works of Emily Dickinson
Lord of the Rings triology
Candide
Rhett Butler's People
I could go on forever but those were the first ones to pop into my feeble mind so they must have hung with me even if the author's name hasn't but then again I have trouble with name recollection so why I am surprised I can't remember them...
Oh yes another really good one:
ReplyDeleteBreakfast of champions by Kurt vinnegut. Anything he wrote I found amusing...
Norman Mailer wrote a couple I liked but can't remember the names
Any of the Bourne Identy books, too. I have the newest one and of Course David Baldacci I really like the ones about the camel Club! Cassandra King has written some good stuff too. How could I forget him--Stephen King's Cujo scared the crap out of me and I had to sleep with the light on for a month.
Vinnegut LOL Vonnegut
ReplyDeleteI've only read three on this list. I want to play but am too tired. I think we should be given five minutes to think of 15 books. I tried to read Run Rabbit Run when I was 19 and it was over my head. Ken Kesey's Electric Koolaid Acid Test held my attention much better.
ReplyDeletehere's my list:
ReplyDeleteThe Awakening...Kate Chopin
The Old Gringo...Carlos Fuentes
The Death of Artemio Cruz...Carlos Fuentes
One Hundred Years of Solitude...Garbiel Garcia Marquez
The Scarlet Letter...Nathaniel Hawthorne
War and Peace...Leo Tolstoy
Treasure Island...Robert Louis Stevenson
The County of Monte Cristo...Alexandre Dumas
The Age of Innocence...Edith Wharton
The Illiad/Oddessy...Homer
The Good Earth...Pearl S. Buck
Tale of Two Cities...Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...Mark Twain
Wild Swans...Jung Chang
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
ReplyDelete1984 by George Orwell
The Diary of Anne Frank
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Lord of the Flies
The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorthy Allison
In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls?
The Shining by Stephen King
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Can I add two short stories?
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
There are others, I can't think right now. That was fun!