CAAF passed on this meme:
Rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.
Her picks:
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire
Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet
Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica
Joan Aiken’s Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love
A.S. Byatt’s Possession
Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch
Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield
J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories
George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Bert Hölldobler/ E.O. Wilson’s Journey to the Ants
Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber
Samuel R. Delany’s Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
My picks:
Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood
James Gould Cozzens’ Guard of Honor
Boswell’s Life of Johnson
Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now
John P. Marquand’s Point of No Return
Barbara Pym’s A Glass of Blessings
Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour (yes, it’s a trilogy, but I first read it in the one-volume omnibus version)
Dawn Powell’s The Locusts Have No King
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye
Clement Greenberg’s Collected Essays and Criticism (a four-volume set, but I think of it as a single work)
George Orwell’s Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters (ditto)
David Cairns’ Berlioz (a two-volume biography, but I think of it as a single work)
Fairfield Porter’s Art in Its Own Terms
Edwin Denby’s Looking at the Dance
How about you, OGIC?