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15 Books
Don't take too long to think about it or you'll second guess yourself and your memory. What are 15 books you've read that will always stick with you? First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
1. War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
2. On Beauty
3. Appetites
3. Let Your Life Speak
4. The Feminine Mystique
5. Composing a Life
6. A Problem from Hell
7. My Traitor's Heart
8. The Bluest Eye
9. Native Son
10. Bird by Bird
11. The History of Love
12. The Souls of Black Folks
13. Bowling Alone
14. In the Time of the Butterflies
15. Pearl
1. War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
2. On Beauty
3. Appetites
3. Let Your Life Speak
4. The Feminine Mystique
5. Composing a Life
6. A Problem from Hell
7. My Traitor's Heart
8. The Bluest Eye
9. Native Son
10. Bird by Bird
11. The History of Love
12. The Souls of Black Folks
13. Bowling Alone
14. In the Time of the Butterflies
15. Pearl
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Permalink Reply by Dee Thompson on
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Hmm, so many to choose from... Books I read as a child, over and over, seem to have stuck in my brain the most...
Little Women
The Pigeon Sisters in the Garden
Gone With the Wind
The Journeyer
Outlander
Eight
The Prince of Tides
Interview With The Vampire
The Color Purple
The DaVinci Code
The Time Travelers Wife
The Eagle and the Rose
Peachtree Road
Queens of England
Nicholas and Alexandra
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Permalink Reply by katieorenstein on -
Wow - that's a heavy hitter list, Court! The books that stick with me aren't all the best works of literature, but here goes.
1. Dune
2. 2001 Space Oddyssey
3. The Oddyssey
4. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. Daughters of the South Winds (first bodice ripper i ever read - with my best friend)
7. The Painted Veil
8. 100 Years of Solitude
9. Mountains Beyond Mountains
10. Neighbors
11. The Little Prince
12. Aids and Accusation
13. Masters of the Dew
14. Grimms Fairy Tales
15. Beloved
And oh, wait, I looked at other people's responses and would definitely crib The Old Man and the Sea, and Frankenstein.
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Permalink Reply by Margaret Diehl on -
katieorenstein said:Wow - that's a heavy hitter list, Court! The books that stick with me aren't all the best works of literature, but here goes.
1. Dune
2. 2001 Space Oddyssey
3. The Oddyssey
4. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. Daughters of the South Winds (first bodice ripper i ever read - with my best friend)
7. The Painted Veil
8. 100 Years of Solitude
9. Mountains Beyond Mountains
10. Neighbors
11. The Little Prince
12. Aids and Accusation
13. Masters of the Dew
14. Grimms Fairy Tales
15. Beloved
And oh, wait, I looked at other people's responses and would definitely crib The Old Man and the Sea, and Frankenstein.
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Permalink Reply by Pamela Jane on -
1. A River Runs Through It
2. One Man's Meat
3. Walden
4. Middlemarch
5. Emma
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. Half Magic
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
10. Alice Through the Looking Glass
11. The Betsy-Tacy Companion
12. Girl Interrupted
13. An Interrupted Life
14. In Sickness and In Health
15. Prozac Diary
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Permalink Reply by Catherine Greenman on -
Seventeenth Summer - Maureen Daly
The Truth About Mary Rose - Marilyn Sachs
The Tale of Miss Tiggy Winkle - Beatrix Potter
Pardon Me You're Stepping on my Eyeball - Paul Zindel
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
Mating - Norman Rush
I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
In The Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien
The Sea The Sea - Iris Murdoch
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Veronica - Mary Gaitskill
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Permalink Reply by Peggy Wilson on -
Shakespeare’s Complete Works (King Lear, Hamlet, Twelth Night, Richard III, Othello, +++)
Cry, the Beloved Country
I and Thou
Narnia Chronicles
Tale of Two Cities
Ender’s Game – Speaker for the Dead – Xenocide
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Where the Wild Things Are
A Theory of Everything
Native Tongue – Judas Rose – Earthsong
Picture of Dorian Gray
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Language of the Night
Visual Explanations
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Permalink Reply by Mariell on -
1. Gone with the Wind
2. Cheri
3. The Girl with the Golden Eyes
4. The Kommandant's Mistress
5. Delta of Venus
6. All Men Are Mortal
7. The Lover
8. The Mystified Magistrate
9. The Story of O
10. The Picture of Dorian Grey
11. Tar Baby
12. Dangerous Liaisons
13. Perfume
14. The Angel and the Pervert
15. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
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Permalink Reply by Ashley Barry on -
1 Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
2 White Teeth
3 The Bluest Eye
4 When God was a Woman
5 Our Bodies, Ourselves
6 Jane Eyre
7 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
8 Lolita
9 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
10 Woman Warrior
11 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
12 Catcher in the Rye
13 Looking for Alaska
14 The Girls Who Went Away
15 Invisible Man
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Permalink Reply by Shelby Knox on -
1. The Women's Room
2. Backlash
3. The Awakening
4. Pride and Prejudice
5. In Search of Our Mothers Gardens
6. Not My Mother's Sister
7. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
8. Little Women
9. The Feminine Mystique
10. A Room of One's Own
11. The Handmaid's Tale
12. Aimee and Jaguar
13. Great Expectations
14. The Giver
15. West with the Night
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Permalink Reply by Christi Craig on -
That's a challenge, since my memory stinks...
1 Things Fall Apart
2 Bird by Bird
3 Light in August
4 Cold Mountain
5 The Red Tent
6 She's Come Undone
7 Negotiating with the Dead, A Writer on Writing
8 The Secret Life of Bees
9 The Edible Woman
10 I Know This Much is True
11 How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead
12 So Long a Letter
13 Pride and Prejudice
14 The Color Purple
15 Poisonwood Bible
Great discussion! Fun exercise!
Christi
Writing Under Pressure
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Permalink Reply by Julie Jeffs on -
This was such a great exercise, there are just so many to choose from but there are those from my childhood that made me want to read more, the same for some from my adulthood and some that made me want to be a writer. And thanks to Anne Lamott, some that helped me to believe I could.
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. The Lovely Bones
3. The Giving Tree
4. Three Cups of Tea
5. The Kite Runner
6. Of Mice and Men
7. The Onion Field
8. Infidel
9. I Married Adventure
10 Harriet the Spy
11. Farenheit 451
12. Catcher in the Rye
13. In the Company of Heroes
14. Much Ado Aboutr Nothing (a play but ....)
15. Bird by Bird
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Permalink Reply by Emma Bolden on -
This is a great survey-type-thinigie! Here goes ...
1. Ariel
2. Stealing the Language
3. The Sound and the Fury
4. The Color Purple
5. I and Thou
6. Valley of the Dolls (hey, at least I'm honest!)
7. The Newly Born Woman
8. The Golden Notebook
9. Howards' End
10. Writing Down the Bones
11. Atlantis
12. What the Living Do
13. Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions
14. Rousseau's Confessions
15. Malleus Maleficarum
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