book meme

[zephyrofgod]

Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you -- list the first 15 you can recall in 15 minutes. Don't take too long to think about it. Tag 15 friends (& while it is easy to tag more, part of the challenge is to think about which 15 friends would have the weirdest or most interesting book list), including me. If you don't want to play, no sweat. Feel free to go about your business. Here are mine, in no particular order (and these are just the 15 for today, at this moment):

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls - Mary Pipher
Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe- C. S. Lewis
Inferno - Dante Aligheri, Mark Musa transliteration
The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis
Protector of the Small: First Test - Tamora Pierce
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Geisha: A Life - Mineko Iwasaki
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Book of the Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
The U.S. Book of Common Prayer, 1979 - the Episcopal Church

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I'm not tagging anyone. If you want to do it, great. If not, awesome.

Comments

[vesta-venus.livejournal.com]

I love your list. Off the top of my head, I'd probably use some of them.

Tell me about Reviving Ophelia. I've heard of it.

I haven't hear of PRotector of the Small. What was that one about?

[zephyrofgod.livejournal.com]

Reviving Ophelia is numerous case studies about how adolescent girls either thrive with what life hands them, or get crushed to bits. It's a fascinating read that, despite being almost fifteen years old, is still incredibly relevant.

First Test is one of a quartet of books about Keladry of Mindelan, a girl training to be a page, squire, and then, knight in the fictitious kingdom of Tortall. It's typically put into the young adult/teen section, but, I'm pretty sure that ten year olds can get into it and read it with the same voracity of Harry Potter. And, like Harry Potter, they can grow with the books.