top 20 books
Dec. 3rd, 2008 01:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
megotelekBecause I've been thinking about it lately...
1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
3. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
4. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
5. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
6. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
7. So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane (the whole series, really, but this was the one that hooked me for life)
8. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
9. A Wind in the Door by Madeline L'Engle (my favorite of the series)
10. Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery (I love all the Anne books, but this one reshaped my worldview with the WWI Canadian homefront setting)
11. Crystal Singer/Killashandra/Crystal Line by Anne McCaffrey
12. The Time-Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
13. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur Clarke
14. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
15. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
16. The Martian Race by Gregory Benford
17. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (my first chapter book!)
18. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
19. Animal Farm by George Orwell
20. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
And that's me...in books. There are lots more that I've read and liked, but these I consider to either have been 'formative' in some way, or have opened me up to a new genre/author, or somehow made me think.
1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
3. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
4. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
5. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
6. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
7. So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane (the whole series, really, but this was the one that hooked me for life)
8. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
9. A Wind in the Door by Madeline L'Engle (my favorite of the series)
10. Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery (I love all the Anne books, but this one reshaped my worldview with the WWI Canadian homefront setting)
11. Crystal Singer/Killashandra/Crystal Line by Anne McCaffrey
12. The Time-Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
13. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur Clarke
14. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
15. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
16. The Martian Race by Gregory Benford
17. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (my first chapter book!)
18. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
19. Animal Farm by George Orwell
20. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
And that's me...in books. There are lots more that I've read and liked, but these I consider to either have been 'formative' in some way, or have opened me up to a new genre/author, or somehow made me think.
