Bookish meme

[persimmonfrost]

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.

Einstein's Dreams -- Lightman
The Lord of the Rings -- Tolkein
Good Omens -- Pratchett and Gaiman
Bard -- Lllewellyn
Wuthering Heights -- Bronte
Dancers at the End of Time (Trilogy) -- Moorcock
The Dream King -- Blunt
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society -- Shaffer
Carrington -- ed. Garnett
The Lymond Chronicle (all six books) -- Dunnett
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- Pirsig
The Bible
The Works of Shakespeare (many, not all)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass -- Carroll
World War Z -- Brooks

I imagine there are many others that I'm forgetting but these are the ones which immediately sprang to mind.

Comments

[stranger]

Mary Poppins, Travers
Dune, Herbert
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Heinlein
Brave New World, Huxley
The Gameplayers of Zan, M.A. Foster
Childhood's End, Arthur Clarke
Caesar and Cleopatra, Shaw
Der Ring des Niebelungen, Wagner
Black Ship to Hell, Brigid Brophy
The Last of the Wine, Mary Renault
Daughter of Time, Tey
These Old Shades, Heyer
Shards of Honor and the Vorkosigan series, Bujold
Gaudy Night, Sayers
Finder, Emma Bull

The list is in roughly chronological order, and mostly from my first three decades, since how can you tell if a book (or whatever) is going to stick with you if it hasn't stuck for a while? Lymond stuck, all right, but these works each started something in my head, while Lymond was more of an epic working-out of things I liked already. Hamlet sticks too, but I don't know why, since I don't like either the characters or the plot.