Grabbed from Devourerofbooks (Jen) and also seen on Shhh I’m Reading and Undercover Book Lover, today’s question about “Sticky Books” was both harder and easier to answer than I anticipated. Harder in that I had to will myself not to look at my LibraryThing catalog to make sure I wasn’t missing anything important, and easier because I was able to come up with all fifteen in seven minutes.
“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.”
Click to read my list, but not before writing your own!
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg
Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Battle Royale, Koushun Takami
The Cay, Theodore Taylor
The Book Thief, Markus Zuzak
The Princess Bride, William Goldman
A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Matilda, Roald Dahl
The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
What’s on your list?
I had The Book Thief on my list as well.
http://1morechapter.com/2009/06/04/btt-sticky/
Hmmm….I kinda wish I hadn’t read your list first, I feel like it might influence mine, but here goes:
The History of Now by Daniel Klein
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Tenant at Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
The Lovely Bones by Anne Sebold
Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beal
Portrait of a Young Woman by Vanora Bennett
The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgens Burnett
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler by E.L. Koinsburg
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain (can’t remember the author)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Candide by Voltaire
Oops, sorry, bib! I wonder if I can “hide” the list… Not that it’ll help you :(
And now, to your list! I couldn’t pick one HP. Just couldn’t do it.
Mixed Up Files is another good one – I think it would be on my list if I’d read it as a kid, for sure.
And, I guess I really, REALLY need to read To Kill a Mockingbird – it’s on SO many people’s lists!
Oh, yes – “Flowers for Algernon.” Good choice. I didn’t think about that one for my list, but it will definitely stick with me.
Hi, JLS Hall; welcome! There was a recent post on LibraryThing about the book, which had it at the front of my mind. It’s on my list of justifiable re-reads for this year :)
Okay, based on the books on your list I’d say you DEFINITELY have to read The Giver from my list. The Giving Tree was a really great choice. I have a signed copy of The Cay somewhere…maybe at my parents’ house. LOVED Theodore Taylor when I was younger. He lived near(ish) us too.
Added to the wish list, Jen; thanks for the recommendation!
I first read The Cay when I was 8? 9? and rediscovered it on BookMooch last year, I think. Such a powerful story.
Ooh, the hard part is not looking at the original post and all of the comments before I come up with my list:
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (well, the whole series, really)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (ditto)
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
That was my problem too foggi! Looks like we share a book and you have some that would definitely be on mine if it were 20 sticky books!