Fifteen Books Meme

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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.
Copy the instructions into your own post.

I had to do this quickly without looking a flippet answers, since we have simliar taste in books and just looking at hers will influence mine. I started putting them in the order of their importance to me, but I gave that up. Now it's mostly the order I thought of them. Here we go...

1) Wrinkle In Time by Madaleine L'Engle
2) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3) Sabriel by Garth Nix
4) The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt by Patricia MacLachlan
5) Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis
6) Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
7) A Ring of Endless Light by Madalein L'Engle
8) Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
9) The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
10) Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (No, not manga. She's an actual Japanese novelist I discovered when I was still in high school.)
11) His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (And The Amber Spyglass, if I'm only allowed one book of the trilogy.)
12) Persuasion by Jane Austen
13) The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers
14) Summers At Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn
15) Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Comments

[kiss-me-cassie.livejournal.com]

This was a lot harder than I thought it would be. *g*

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Actually, the fact that you only have 15 minutes is what saved me. I didn't have time to overthink or stress over which ones to keep in and which to leave out. I simply went with my gut.

[flippet.livejournal.com]

Ha. AWIT for the win! :-)

I almost put down To Kill a Mockingbird as well, but it fell at the end of what I was thinking of.



The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt by Madaleine L'Engle

HOW IS IT THAT I HAVE NOT HEARD OF THIS BOOK??????

[quaggy]

The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt by Madaleine L'Engle

Umm.... Cause Madeleine L'Engle didn't write it. It's actually a book by Patricia MacLachlan. I was in a hurry and not really paying attention to what I was typing. *blushes* In my defense, I was trying to work fast! I've gone back and fixed it, by the way.

[flippet.livejournal.com]

OKAY. You skeered me, there. :-P


I got a title wrong the first time around, too.

[quaggy]

Sorry, hun! Nothing worse that thinking you might have a book you never heard of by an author you love, only to find out it's not true. :-P

That said, you should totally read Fact & Fictions if you can get your hands on a copy. (Check your library cause I think it's currently out of print.) If you can't, tell me and I'll lend you my copy.

[unoriginal-liz.livejournal.com]

What a cool meme :) I always love looking at people's favourite/most memorable reads.

I've never read any of Madaleine l'Engle's - in spite of hearing a lot about 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I really have to fix that :)

'Anne of Green Gables' still makes me cry (but in a good way!).

[quaggy]

I always love looking at people's favourite/most memorable reads.

Me too. Book memes are always a lot of fun... especially you know more about their movie and television preferences than you do about what's on their bookshelf.

I've never read any of Madaleine l'Engle's - in spite of hearing a lot about 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I really have to fix that :)

Yes, you really, really have to!!