100 Books

[landingtree]

The meme that’s been going round! I went with ‘Books which influenced me most or made the strongest impressions’ rather than ‘favourites’; although those categories overlap a lot, there are plenty of books here I don’t like anymore. (The Orson Scott Card collection and the Dr Seuss are there because they are the two books I read as a child that gave me new behavior-modifying fears that lasted more than six months each). Series and writers mostly represented by single books.

Here’s the list. How many have you read?

Comments

[ambyr]

Only 25! But I think we've talked before about how a lot of your formative childhood books never made it here.

[landingtree]

We have, which in some cases is a shame, but I think the ocean is probably doing some good work filtering out The Karazan Quartet, a series I would not dare reread even though I still remember how to collect the venom of most of the macguffin snakes.