15 books

[42itous]

There's this meme that's going around:
Take no more than 15 minutes to produce a list of 15 books that have influenced you in style, ideas, relationships, language, or other ways that you find important, and/or books that have really stayed with you -- you keep thinking of that quote, you are always remembering that character, you are frequently reminded of that moment.... that kind of thing. This is not a favorites list.

1. Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney
2. Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
3. Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
4. Angels in America, by Tony Kushner
5. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
6. Something Under the Bed is Drooling, by Bill Watterson
7. The Night People, by Jack Finney
8. Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
9. My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George
10. Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner
11. An Anteater Named Arthur, by Bernard Waber
12. Many Moons, by James Thurber (illustrated by Louis Slobodkin)
13. A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare
14. The Phantom Tollbooth, but Norton Juster
15. The Color Kittens, by Margaret Wise Brown

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[luckylefty.livejournal.com]

Many Moons is one of my all-time favorite books, and while I'm not sure I can come up with a good list of 15 books that have most influenced me, it would definitely be on the list. And hardly anyone seems to have heard of it.