15 Books Meme

[csberry]

Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you. They should be the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.  In no particular order: 1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess   2. WLT: A Radio Romance by Garrison Keillor 3. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 4. Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard 5. How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein 6. Original Meanings by Jack Rakove   7. American Gospel by Jon Meacham   8. Tales of the City by Armistad Maupin 9. The Federalist Papers  10. Don't Know Much About History by Kenneth C Davis  11. An Incomplete Education by Judy Jones and William Wilson   12. Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard 13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain  14. Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azzerand  15. XTC: Song Stories by Neville Farmer 

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If you really want it . . .

[(Anonymous)]

here goes:

1. Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
2. For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand
3. The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by
Andrew Tobias
4. Republic by Plato
5. The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
6. Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
7. Dracula by Bram Stoker
8. Frankenstein: Prometheus Unbound by Mary Shelley
9. Me, Alice: The Autobiography of Alice Cooper
10. Roots by Alex Haley
11. Becoming a Man by Paul Monette
12. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
13. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
14. Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
15. Back to Barbary Lane by Armistead Maupin (only because it was the worst godawful book I've ever read)
15. The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand

[cosmosmariner.livejournal.com]

Interesting... I'll have to give this one a shot. Definately will have to have A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving on this list, as it has haunted me for years.