Subjecting the blogosphere to another Facebook meme: Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
- The Cheneysville Incident by David Bradley. No relation to our recent VP.
- The Stranger by Albert Camus. Definitely read for college not pleasure but made quite the impression.
- O' Pioneers by Willa Cather.
- Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow.
- Birthing from Within by Pam England and Rob Horowitz. If you read one birth preparation book . . .
- Marathon by Jeff Galloway. Not a particularly literary reference but that wasn't the criteria.
- House Like a Lotus by Madeline L'Engle. This one was kind of earth shaking at thirteen with some pretty adult themes. (Hate the cover image, btw. Artist obviously hadn't read book.)
- Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen. Which I read backstage during rehearsals of an Amherst community theater production of The Sound of Music (I wasn't in it).
- The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell.
- The Yoga Sutras by Patanjali
- Jacob I Have Loved by Katherine Paterson. Apparently, I was so struck by this one that I gave it to a young friend for her birthday two years running (oops).
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig.
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. Unfortunately.
- Eco-heros by Aubrey Wallace. Given to me by my campus organizer after my sophomore year in college.
- Native Son by Richard Wright. Read at 15 and haven't had the courage to pick up another Wright book since . . . powerful.
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