After reading Jim Woods's post 15 books, I decided to do my own. The rules are: Write down the 15 books that have really stayed with you, changed you, and which you have reread often (I added the reread cause that's what I do), thinking about it for no more than 15 minutes. Since I am me, I will just do it right off the top of my head, not thinking for even 15 minutes. And I am going to include poetry, cause I wanna.
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
3. The Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery
4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
5. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
6. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price
7. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
8. Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
9. "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson
10. "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
11. Lanterns on the Levee by William Alexander Percy
12. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
13. The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
14. Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff
15. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
It's funny that many of the books that shaped me are books I have enjoyed since childhood. I guess that is when most of the shaping is going on.
Let me know what your 15 books are.
