Ten books that have stayed with me
A couple of weeks ago, my friend, Daniella, tagged me on Facebook. “List 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take more than a few minutes, and don’t think too hard. It is not about the ‘right’ book or great work of literature, just ones that have affected you in some way. Does not have to be in order.’
I should then have nominated 10 friends to be tagged in turn. I am hopeless at this. By the time I have got round to it, all my friends have already been tagged by someone and there is no-one left to choose. But I did write my list – pretty much off the top of my head and here it is:
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
Lawrence Block, Out on the Cutting Edge
Taichi Yamada, Strangers
Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did at School
Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon
Susan Varley, Badger’s Parting Gifts
Joyce Dennys, Henrietta’s War
Note that I am not saying these are the best or even my favourite books, just a few that have stayed with me. This list is all fiction. Maybe I’ll do non-fiction another time.
I like a booklist. There’s one on a recent post here: http://www.suehepworth.com/ and Moira at http://www.clothesinbooks.blogspot.uk has some good lists.
2 Comments
moira @ Clothes in Books
September 13, 2014Thanks for the shoutout! Interesting list. I know Block but not that book, and I only came across the Badger book on someone else’s recent list, and Henrietta because you mentioned it. Never heard of the Taichi Yamada. I’m off to look them up now: that’s what I like about reading the lists.
Christine Poulson
September 14, 2014The Taichi Yamada is haunting. I do recommend it. Badger’s Parting Gifts is a wonderful children’s picture book which I read with my daughter after my mother died.