“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.”
In no particular order:
1. Silence by Shusaku Endo
2. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
3. Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
4. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
5. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
6. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
7. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
8. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
9. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
10. Matilda by Roald Dahl
11. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
12. The Odyssey by Homer
13. The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis
14. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
15. Beowulf (Rebsamen’s translation)
Ooh, this was a nice little exercise . . . this is an insanely random list, but all these books have been very important at different times in my life (and now). A lot of pleasant/curious/interesting memories were triggered while I was thinking about these.
A Wrinkle in Time, wow you just gave me a flashback to childhood! Great List.
Thanks! Yours looks interesting too, though I haven’t read much on it.
My third grade teacher got me going on A Wrinkle in Time . . . when I think about it, I have a lot of other people (parents, teachers, friends) to thank for introducing me to most of these books.
You and I are the only two Matilda lovers I have seen so far. But we join many The Name of the Rose lovers. And this is one great list! Never heard of Silence so now I am off to check it out. Happy reading!