Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don't take but a few minutes, and don't think too hard - they don't have to be "right" or "great" works, just the ones that have touched you.
There are a lot of books that have stuck with me, and these are some that I'm glad I read. In no particular order with the number stretched to 15 because I've been reading for 40 years -
- The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'Engle
- A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean
- Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell
- The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
- The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
- Hiroshima - John Hersey
- Johnny Lion's Rubber Boots - Edith Thacher Hurd

Here is a list of books I read that I wish hadn't.
- Silas Marner - George Eliot
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
- The Light in the Forest - Conrad Richter
- A Separate Peace - John Knowles
- When the Legends Die - Hal Borland
- Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
- Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh
- The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
- How to Eat Fried Worms - Thomas Rockwell