15 books in 15 mins

Even though I've got tons of other...productive...stuff to do on my 1 day off this week, I can't resist. As a result of a tag...I'll do my best to come up with 15 titles. :)

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 15 minutes.

1) Anne of Green Gables (my favorite book...whimsical and optimistic)
2) Pride & Prejudice (the book and the movies...classic romance!!)
3) The Shack (even though I'm not done with it yet, it's definitely got me thinking and still hopefully stick with me for years to come!)
4) To Kill a Mockingbird
5) Lord of the Rings
6) The Scarlett Letter (not cuz I particularly liked it or anything, but I can still remember it even to this day, which goes for a lot of those high school classics! hehe Now that I think of it, it even makes me think from a new perspective...hidden sin vs. sin that's out in the open for all to see and how God affects that)
7) Princess Bride (probably cuz I saw the movie on cable recently, but the book is really good! probably one I'll read to my kids if I have any in future)
8) Harry Potter (how can this not stick...7 books and so insanely popular)
9) The Scarlet Pimpernel & other regency romance novels (much as I hate to admit it, they were my bread & butter from junior high all the way into college...it's where many of my romantic ideals came from! so they definitely stuck with me)
10) The Bible (debated whether to add this or not, thought it might be too cliche and cheesy, but the Bible is SOOO applicable to my life and some of the verses/stories speak directly to me...how can it not be on this list??)
11) Ender's Game (only a vague memory of the story, but it was soooo good)
12) Crime & Punishment (dark and dreary for sure. would never be able to forget it!)
13) My Lucky Day (children's book, but very cute. used it in my very first job interview for librarian and is now one of my favorites for storytime)

(ack...running out of steam...must take break)

14) Joy Luck Club
15) American Born Chinese (my very first graphic novel...kinda weird)

That took me longer than 15 minutes.

Actually, a lot of those high school English books really stay with you...and not in a good way. Scarlett Letter and Crime & Punishment I already mentioned, but there's also Beloved...Dracula...The Crucible...Hamlet...Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man...bleh

Also scary is how many of my list are also movies (9 out of 15 that I know of) and how often titles of movies & TV shows came to my head instead of books. =P