“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.”
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
- The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery
- Daughter of the Forest, Juliet Marillier
- Kushiel’s Dart, Jacqueline Carey
- The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley
- Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
- The Sunne in Splendour, Sharon Kay Penman
- A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
- Ship of Magic, Robin Hobb
- Silent in the Grave, Deanna Raybourn
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
Well, that wasn’t as hard as I expected. I have a lot of favorite books. If it’s the first in a series, you can probably figure out that I love the rest of the series too. These are all books that astonished me, captivated me, that I fell absolutely in love with and wanted to start over again right that second. I know they will always stay with me because I will always have a copy and when I want a comforting reread, I will choose one of these books.
This list has also shown me that an absurd number of my favorite books are fantasy and I really should just deal with the fact that they are chunksters and read them anyway. I haven’t fallen in love with a book in a long time and I’m totally ready to do so. It’s May and it hasn’t happened that special way yet.
Yay for Jane Eyre and the Age of Innocence!
I tried to read Anna Karenina once, but it was in German–so you can guess how that went. Some day I should really try to read the English version.
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Nice list!!! I also have Sunne in Splendour and Guernsey!!! I really want to read Silent in the Grave.
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Jane Eyre seems to be a universal favourite. It’s one of mine
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Interesting choices. I really enjoyed The Remains of the Day, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and Anne of Green Gables too. I do own copies of Girl with a Pearl Earring, Jane Eyre, and Anna Karenina so it’s time I moved them to the top of my tbr pile. Funny how different all our lists are, but mine reflects my age I think. This was a fun theme to do.
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Wonderful choices. We got Jane Eyre common. A few I have read and loved and others I will check out!
Stuck forever and ever!
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Great list. I’d definitely have LM Montgomery in there. I suspect mine would be heavily leaning toward children’s fantasy.
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1. Harry Potter (all 7)
2. Twilight Sage (all 4)
3. Half-Magic
4. Ella Enchanted
5. Nancy Drew
6. Animorphs (Yerks! Yurks? = creeeeepy)
7. Charming the Prince
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. Tess of D’Ubervilles (because I have never loathed a book more than this one)
10. Encyclopedia Brown
11. Enchanting Pleasures
12. Love is Blind
13. Sleepless at Midnight
14. Anita Blake Series
15. Stephenie Plum Series
16. Cat Who Series
17. Bernie Rhodenbarr Series
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I really love these lists. You have a bunch that have definitely stuck with me.
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This is a fun question! I started my list at work yesterday and then ended up getting stuck at five because I was interrupted. I’ll have to try again this weekend.
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I’m totally with you on 3, 5, 6 and 9.