If you are part of our little community odds are you are a voracious reader: I am, and ever since I was little I catch myself (or my parents would) staying up way too late, totally engrossed in a book. So, I started thinking of different books I still remember vividly or had an influence on me – considering the number of books I read each year there’s not too many I can still recall decades later, and there are even fewer I have read multiple times. Which tells me those books must be pretty darn good.
I’m sure you have books that have done the same to you, also. Why not share some of those titles with others here? I’m certain they would appreciate it as they look for their next read and, who knows, you may find something you can’t put down?
Don’t take too long to think about it – list out five books you’ve read that will always stick with you. The first five you can recall in no more than five minutes; I thought this would be easy for me but will admit it was hard for me to do
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(These are in no particular order. I admit to going over the five book limit.)
1. Cat in the Hat – Dr. Suess
2. Hunt for Red October – Tom Clancy
4. Flint – Louis L’Amour
5. Last of the Breed – Louis L’Amour
6. The Prodigal Daughter – Jeffrey Archer
7. Entire Men at War Series – W.E.B. Griffin
8. Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
9. The Black Stallion – Walter Farley
10. Alas, Babylon – Pat Frank
11. Winds of War – Herman Wouk
12. My Name is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok
13. Mila 18 – Leon Uris
14. The Shack – William P. Young
15. Fools Die – Mario Puzo
16. The Stand – Stephen King
17. Hawaii – James Michener
18. Entire Shogun Series – James Clavell
18 Responses
The Mill on the Floss — George Eliot
Diana — R. F. Delderfield
Lord of the Rings trilogy — H.R.R. Tolkin
The Story of the Other Wiseman — Henry Van Dyke
Mister God, This is Anna — Fynn
There are so many more but I refrained
Little House Series
Charlotte’s Web
Old Yeller
All Creatures Great and Small James Heriot
Because there are so many books to read I try not to re-read any. The 1 that I have reread at least twice is The Christmas Train by David Baldacci. I have even seen the movie that was made. I highly recommend it!
HMS Ullisses by Alistair McClain The
Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
Everything I can get my hands on by John Ringo,
Hawaii by Mitchner The Doc Savage books and Red Storm Rising by Clancy
Red Storm Rising was on my first list, but then again I went way over the five!
My memorable books:
Gone with the Wind
Winds of War
War and Remembrance
The Far Pavilion
Thorn Birds
Cider House Rules
Alice in Wonderland-Lewis Carroll
Little Women-Louisa May Alcott
Exodus-Leon Uris
The Far Pavilions-MM Kaye
Before We Were Yours-Lisa Wingate
Exodus was just below my Mila 18 pick – great book!
1. The Disappearance by Philip Wylie
2. Thief in the Night by William Sears
3. White Banners
4. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
5. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
6. Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. DuBois
All the Outlander books (several times)
Anne of Green Gables
Pollyanna
Thorn Birds
Most of James Michener
My memorable books:
Gone with the Wind
Winds of War
War and Remembrance
The Far Pavilion
Thorn Birds
Cider House Rules
I consider influential books the ones that prompted me to believe a certain way, take a moral stand, or walk a different life path. Here’s five of the most influential:
1. The Bible
2. The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke
3. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
4. Of Men and Mary by Christine Watkins
5. The Odyssey by Homer
The books that got me started reading and kept me at it.
An Occurance on Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
Edgar Allen Poe
Modesty Blaise
Doc Savage
The Stand by Stephen King and the everything he has written since…
Ward Larsen’s David Stanton series
Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
The Complete Works of Shakespeare – William Shakespeare
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
Candide – Voltaire
Spoon River Anthology – Edgar Lee Masters
Bible
Narnia series – CS Lewis
Lord of the ring series – Jr Tolkien
Mrs Polifax series
Flinx and Pip series – Alan Dean Foster
To Kill A Mockingbird
Dune series
Holy Blood Holy Grail
Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
Zecharia Sitchin Earth Chronicles Series
Pillars of the Earth/Kingsbridge series- Ken Follett
Maisie Dobbs series -Jacqueline Winspear
Gaudy Night and all the Lord Peter Wimsey series – Dorothy Sayers
Still Life and all the Inspector Gamache series – Louise Penny
Everything written by Agatha Christie
Cyrano de Bergerac
Sherlock Holmes
One, Two, Three…Infinity
Greek Mythology
Ansel Adams’ photography
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