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

[landingtree]

I'd read some poetry before those, but when my sister got keen on that particular Rilke book was the first time I really got got by some poetry. And a selection of Auden is what my dad gave me when I left home, because I'd just begun being enthusiastic about the family copy.

I think I have seen someone else have Middlemarch and I think it made me go 'Oh yes, got to add Middlemarch!' but I'm not sure who.

[skygiants]

I think that was me!