bookmeme! et cetera!

From lomedet, among others:

"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."

(And like she said browngirl said, these are, ahaha, not always recommendations.)

1. Baby Island - Carol Ryrie Brink
2. A Place Called Home - Lori Wick
3. The Conquest - Jude Deveraux
4. Good Night, Mr. Tom - Michelle Magorian
5. The Tommyknockers - Stephen King
6. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
7. The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold
8. Deerskin - Robin McKinley
9. The Immortals - Tracy Hickman
10. Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
11. An Exchange of Hostages - Susan R. Matthews
12. Murder at the War - Mary Monica Pulver
13. The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
14. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
15. Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman

I have a very good memory for words and stories, so a pretty significant fraction of the books I've read will always stick with me, but I set my mind toward the formative ones. These all were important in one way or another, or represented something important--though if I hadn't realized some way into my fifteen minutes that I read all the books I'd then come up with before graduating high school, I probably would have included Watership Down instead of Sandman. (They are listed in roughly the order I first read them, because I am anal like that.)

Then, ahaha, ( I tried to do the same thing with fic... )