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September 14, 2005
Books
Recently on the Well-Trained Mind board, there was a thread in which people shared lists of books that really meant something to them. Books that affected their lives. Here's my list, in no particular order. These are books that either formed my mental landscape as I was growing up, or literally caused me to change my life when I was older.
* Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series
* "A Little Princess," by Frances Hodgson Burnett
* Mary Stewart's Merlin series, especially "The Crystal Cave." This is my favorite treatment of the Arthurian saga. I gave one of my sons the middle name Emrys, in honor.
* Roger Zelazny's Amber series
* "R is for Rocket" - Ray Bradbury, and
* "A Sound of Thunder" by Bradbury, the first science fiction short story I ever read.
* "A Severed Wasp" - Madeline L'Engle
* "A Wrinkle in Time" and, especially, "A Swiftly Tilting Planet," also by L'Engle
* "Dragonsong" - Anne McCaffrey
* "The Lord of the Rings," even though I didn't read it until I was 31.
* "D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths"
* "Bones of the Moon" by Jonathan Carroll. Brilliant, disturbing, bizarre stuff.
* "Jane Eyre" - Charlotte Bronte
* "Night" - Elie Wiesel
* "Immaculate Deception" - Suzanne Arms
* "Dumbing Us Down" - John Taylor Gatto
* "Climbing Parnassus" - Tracy Lee Simmons
* "The Well-Trained Mind" - Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer
* "The Mists of Avalon" - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Posted by lynx at September 14, 2005 10:32 PM
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It's been years since I've read Zelazny's series. And I'd forgotten to add The Mists of Avalon to my list.
I adore Arthurian sagas, but I've not read Stewert's series. I'll see if my library has it.
Posted by: Shawna in Texas at September 17, 2005 12:56 AM
Ooh, I love book lists, so I'll add mine. These are some that I treasure and have alot of meaning to me.
1984 - George Orwell
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Belgariad and The Malloreon - David Eddings
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Posted by: Brian at September 19, 2005 2:19 PM