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15 Books Meme

Not the best 15 books you’ve ever read, or even ones you’d recommend to others.  Just 15 books that have made their mark on you and will always stick with you, for whatever reason.

1. My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

2. Sense and Sensibility (first Jane Austen, read after watching the excellent film. Katie and I recently realized that we have picked up strange things we say or ways of phrasing things that are directly from reading/watching so much Austen)

3. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

4. Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stieglitz

5. Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart

6. A Wrinkle In Time

7. And Both Were Young (Crappy YA novel by Madeleine L’Engle, but it was the first book I intentionally stole from school! I still feel guilty haha)

8. Our Band Could Be Your Life (I know, I know)

9. The Bell Jar (I KNOW, I KNOW)(Incidentally, one of my teachers in high school walked in on me reading this in the library during my personal study hall and said “Really? I thought you were better than that.”)

10. Dream Brother (I actually took the book with me to Memphis to figure out where he drowned, I’m really quite morbid in my private world)

11. All Quiet On The Western Front (First view of the other side of history/first time I understood what imagery was and how it contributed to a piece of writing)

12. Les Miserable (Read it in 7th Grade just to prove I could and that I could do it faster than Jaclyn Enners, who started slightly before me. I would love to read it again and pick up all of the stuff I missed (probably any part of the book that wasn’t direct plot, haha))

13. Jane Eyre (Feminism rules and the love interest can be flawed/ugly)

14. Fight Club (Even living in a man’s world, some things are just too masculine (for lack of a better word) for me to be able to handle. First realization that when I read a book I live in that world, and that was a world I didn’t want to inhabit. Only read 20 pages)

15. Black Hawk Down (Modern war, failings of the aid system, difficulties of nitty gritty aspects of democracy building) I’m sure there are more/better ones, but this is all I can think of.