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

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1. The Book of the Dun Cow
2. Power of One (Courtenay)
3. Ahab's Wife or the Star-Gazer
4. Interesting Times
5. Wee Free Men
6. Shardik
7. Maia
8. The Scarlet Pimpernel
9. The Three Musketeers
10. Aggie Winkum and the Snootagus (unpublished...so far)
11. Til We Have Faces (CS Lewis)
12. Watership Down
13. Jane Eyre
14. The Book of Flying
15. Beach Music (Conroy)

--- This is no fun. I don't like stopping. :(
Too many!

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
The Age of Reason - Jean Paul Satre
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Kafka on The Shore - Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Where Angels Feaere to Tread - E.M. Forster
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Romola - George Eliot
Lilian's Story - Kate Grenville
A Prayer for Owen Meany
To Kill a Mockingbird
Time Traveler’s Wife
Empire Falls
Catcher in the Rye
Great Gatsby (when I read it as an adult instead of a teen)
Gone with the Wind
Secret Life of Bees
Middlesex
Death of Ivan Ilych
The Secret History
Old Man and the Sea
Hamlet (a play, but still)
Art of Racing in the Rain
Oh, I can never resist this sort of thing. Here goes:

1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Out of Africa
3. The Great Gilly Hopkins (Katherine Paterson)
4. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
5. Everything the Rises Must Converge
6. Notes of a Native Son
7. To Kill a Mockingbird
8. Fugitive Pieces (Anne Michaels)
9. The Heidi Chronicles
10. Bucolics (Maurice Manning)
11. Anna Karenina
12. Anne of Green Gables
13. Mrs. Dalloway
14. The Feminine Mystique
15. Damascus Nights (Rafik Schami)
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
The Stand
The Bluest Eye
Beloved
Sphere
Free Enterprise
Adam Bede
Ethan Fromme
Judy's Journey
Five Quarters of the Orange
I Too Sing America
Into Thin Air
Gulliver's Travels
Don't Play Out in the Sun
Frankenstein
Books that will stick with me ... I am sure I'll forget all the important ones if I do this in freewriting mode, but here goes:

1. Bitten (Kelley Armstrong)
2. Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, A Hat full of Sky (witch-books from Terry Pratchett)
3. A Kiss of Shadows (Hamilton)
3. Ronja Räubertochter (Lindgren)
4. Kalle Blomquist (Lindgren)
5. Mio my Mio (Lindgren)
6. Brothers Lionheart (Lindgren)
7. The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)
8. 2XS (Findley)
9. Breathing Lessons (Tyler)
10. Thoreau's Journals (collected excerpts, wild browsing)
11. Rich in Love (Humphreys)
12. Men at Arms (Pratchett)
13. Dreams (Kafka; not sure that is the English title- a collection of notes about his dreams)
14. Wilderness Tips (Atwood)
15. Emerson among the Eccentrics (not fiction, but an eye-opener at university)

Some of them are children's books which were read to my brother and me by our parents. Especially my father has a great reading voice, he made the stories come so much alive. We begged him to keep on reading for us even when we long could read ourselves. The last book he read to us was the Neverending Story by Ende, aptly named, hm? We knew it was going to be the last book he read to us and we never wanted it to end.
1 )Little Women
2) Gone With The Wind
3) Mill on the Floss
4) Catcher in the Rye
5) Lord of the Flies
6) Where a Red Fern Grows
7) The Stand
8) IT
9) Tommyknockers
10) Girl With A Pearl Earring
11) Eat, Pray, Love
12) Water for Elephants
13) Mayfair Witches
14) Lasher
15) Twilight
1. Bridge to Terabithia
2. King Lear
3. Macbeth
four. the bell jar
5. Rosie (Anne Lamott)
6. In Cold Blood
7. The Other Side of Midnight (Sidney Sheldon)
8. the Lonely Lady (Harold Robbins)
9. Hop on Pop (Dr. Seuss)
10. The Land of the Lost Buttons (childhood book)
11. Goodnight Moon
12. Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret
13. Two Girls, Fat and Thin
14. Franny and Zooey
15. The Sun Also Rises
Where the Red Fern Grows
Love in theTime of Cholera
The Great Gatsby
Jane Eyre
The Once and Future King
The Zookeeper's Wife
Mission to Kala
Silas Marner
The Scarlet Letter
Prince of Tides
Wuthering Heights
Native Son
Picture of Dorian Grey
A Bridge to Terabithia
Out of Africa
Civilization and its Discontents
4 minutes!

1. Lolita
2. Love in the Time of Cholera
3. Madame Bovary
4. The Old Man and the Sea
5. Gilead
6. Housekeeping
7. The Day No Pigs Would Die
8. 100 Years of Solitude
9. Long Ago In France
10. Pride and Prejudice
11. Under the Tuscan Sun
12. Anna Karenina
13. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
14. The Wal-Mart Effect
15. A Room with a View
1. Housekeeping, Marilyn Robinson
2. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Robert Calasso)
3. Forests: A Shadow of Civilization (Robert Pogue Harrison)
4. Waves (Virginia Woolf)
5. To The Lighthouse, VWoolf
6. The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman), whole series
7. Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams
8. The Bear, Faulkner
9. At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Peter Matthiessen
10. Rachel Carson: Witness to Nature, Linda Lear
11. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
12. For Whom the Bell Tolls
13. Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
14. Unsettling of America, Wendell berry
15. The Tale of Despereux, Kate DiCamillo

Michelle Maisto said:
4 minutes!

1. Lolita
2. Love in the Time of Cholera
3. Madame Bovary
4. The Old Man and the Sea
5. Gilead
6. Housekeeping
7. The Day No Pigs Would Die
8. 100 Years of Solitude
9. Long Ago In France
10. Pride and Prejudice
11. Under the Tuscan Sun
12. Anna Karenina
13. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
14. The Wal-Mart Effect
15. A Room with a View
1. Heidi by Johanna Spry
2. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
3. The Prelude by WIlliam Wordsworth
4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
6. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
7. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Greeley
8. Dubliners by James Joyce
9. Persuasion by Jane Austen
10.The Color of Water by James McBride
11. When The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
12. The Psychopathology of Every Day Life by Sigmund Freud
13. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
14. Golden Compass trilogy by Phillip Pullman
15. Collected Stories of Alice Munro

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