Ten Books that have Stayed With Me

[jl_merrow]

I was tagged by the lovely Josephine Myles on FB, so here goes:

Ten books that have stayed with me – in no particular order, and omitting many more:

The Machine Stops – EM Forster

Gobsmacking prescience re the internet

Discworld Series – Terry Pratchett

Impossible to choose just one. And a masterclass in British humour

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

A real eye-opener after reading works by her near-contemporary, Jane Austen: all that passion!

The Italian – Ann Radcliffe

Her best, most complex villain, plus her trademark lush scenery and gothic atmosphere

The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford

Wonderfully rambling unreliable narrator – and a killer ending

The Story of Art – EH Gombrich

Enthralling and enlightening to one utterly devoid of an artist’s eye

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Shockingly modern

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling

Fantastically imaginative ideas

The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

In all its many forms – I still can’t think of it without the radio show theme song playing in my mind

The Dresden Files – Jim Butcher

My two favourite genres, rolled into one hard-boiled first-person narrative

 

I’m not tagging anyone, but feel free to join in if you have a yen to do so!

Comments

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

I wish I could have listed 50 books! The Machine Stops is stunning. (And saved me when an editor insisted that Dr Panesar couldn't have been envisaging an internet type thing!)

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Oh and congrats on the Rainbow award. Well deserved.