On facebook, there is a "chain letter" note going around that I just got tagged on today. I thought that it was kinda fun, so I thought that I'd post it on here for anyone that wants to do it as well!


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. Tag 15 friends, including me because I'm interested in seeing what books my friends choose.

1 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2 - The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins
3 - Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn
4 - Harry Potter series by J K Rowling
5 - Werewolf Series by Patricia Briggs
6 - Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris
7 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
8 - Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
9 - Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld
10 - Work and the Glory Series by Gerald N Lund
11 - Faith of our Fathers Series by Nancy Campbell Allen
12 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
13 - The Host by Stephenie Meyer
14 - Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead
15 - Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer


**I think that I kinda cheated! I couldn't pick just 15 books so I picked a few series as well! If you actually count how many books are in each of those series, I really picked 63 books! Plus I cheated by lumping both of the Patricia Briggs werewolf series together! Hey, they connect! So they can be considered the same series, right?**

1. My Sweet Audrina by V.C. Andrews
2. The Door to December by Dean Koontz
3. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
4. Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh
5. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
6. Living Dead in Dallas By Charlaine Harris
7. Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward
8. An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris
9. Tempting the Beast by Lora Leigh
10. A Secret Rage by Charlaine Harris
11. Sold by Patricia McCormick
12. 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
13. Must Love Hellhounds Anthology
14. Rapture by Jacquelyn Frank
15. Queen of the Orcs: King's Property by Morgan Howell

I love my Charlaine Harris, but I chose just the couple that stuck out more than the others for this game!

1. The Black Jewels Trilogy Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, Queen of the Darkness by Anne Bishop
2. Crown of Shadows by C.S. Friedman
3. It by Stephen King
4. The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
5. Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton
6. Pietje Bell by Chris van Abkoude
7. Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
8. Night's Master by Tanith Lee
9. Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
10. Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
11. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
12. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
13. Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green
14. The Devil You Know by Mike Carey
15. De Griezelbus 1 by Paul van Loon

Wow, that was hard. When the books are in a series, i picked either my favourite or the first book in the series. The books Pietje Bell and De Griezelbus are two of my childhood favourites, the books are in dutch and have unfortunately not been translated to english.

15 books that have special meaning to me, in no particular order:

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Cat Who Blew the Whistle by Lilian Jackson Braun
The Serpent's Shadow by Mercedes Lackey
Making the Saint by Isobel Bird
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Memoirs of a Bookbat by Kathryn Lasky
Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss
Beast by Peter Benchley
Black Water by Rachel Anderson
A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass

It was tough to narrow it down, I could probably add at least another five or ten.

Hmm...15 books?

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
3. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
4. Black Dagger Brotherhood series by JR Ward
5. Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
6. Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
7. Dune by Frank Herbert
8. Psy/Changeling series by Nalini Singh
9. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
10. Doctors by Erich Segal
11. The Class by Erich Segal
12. Twins by Katherine Stone
13. A Rose in Winter by Kathleen Woodiwiss
14. Godfather by Mario Puzo
15. The Bourne Trilogy by Robert Ludlum

I guess this is as random as I can get... :)

1. Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
2. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
3. Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
4. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
6. Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin
7. Lamb, Christopher Moore
8. The Wishing Chair, Enid Blyton
9. The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett
10. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
11. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling
12. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
13. Chronical of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
14. Great Expectations, Dickens
15. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë


The most memorably disturbing book I've ever read is Child of God by Cormac McCarthy. Even now, years later, thinking of it turns my stomach.

My 15, in no particular order:

1. Watership Down by Richard Adams
2. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
3. Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables No. 1) by L.M. Montgomery
4. Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
6. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
7. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
8. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
9. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
10. Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer
11. Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
12. The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel by Gaston Leroux
13. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
14. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
15. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation trans. by Seamus Heaney

This is my top 15:

1. The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop
2. Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
3. Anita Blake series (first 12 books) by Laurell K. Hamilton
4. Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
5. Poison Study by Maria V Snyder
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
7. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
8. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
9. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
10. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
11. The Safe-Keeper's Secret by Sharon Shinn
12. Bitten, Stolen,The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong (set in same universe so I'm counting these as one)
13. Bareback also known as Benighted by Kit Whitfield
14. The Magician's Guild by Trudi Canavan
15. Werewolf Saga series by Steven E. Wedel

It was exceptionally hard to list just 15 so I cheated as well and added a few series.

1. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
2. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
3. This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
4. Like Dandelion Dust by Karen Kingsbury
5. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
6. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
7. The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton
8. For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison
9. The Harlequin by Laurell K. Hamilton
10. Tell Me Your Dreams by Sidney Sheldon
11. Shout Down the Moon by Lisa Tucker
12. All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
13. At Grave's End by Jeaniene Frost
14. Windfall by Rachel Caine
15. A Lick of Frost (Meredith Gentry, #6) by Laurell K. Hamilton

Whew, that was tough...

Michelle M. wrote: "1. Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
2. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
3. Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
4. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
5. Charlie and the Chocolate Fact..."

I loved THE TALES OF THE CITY books, too, Michelle. Has been years since I read them but they stuck with me. I did this on Facebook a few weeks ago. I need to go copy it and put it here.

1 The Stand, Stephen King
2 To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
3 All the Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer
4 Looking For Rachel Wallace, Robert B. Parker
5 Gone, Baby, Gone, Dennis Lehane
6 Pet Sematary, Stephen King
7 Dracula, Bram Stoker
8 Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
9 Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
10 Dead To the World, Charlaine Harris
11 L.A. Requiem, Robert Crais
12 The Happy Hooker, Xaviera Hollander (hey, I was 15 when I read it & it REALLY made an impression!)
13 Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice
14 On A Pale Horse, Piers Anthony
15 Hard Revolution, George Pelecanos

These are all books that made a strong impression on me when I read them, whether good or bad.

Melodie, have you seen the miniseries on PBS with Olympia Dukakis as Mrs. Madrigal and Laura Linney as Maryanne? They did a great job bringing everyone to life. I think I actually saw that first and it inspired me to read the books.

There are a lot of books that have been listed that I've never read before! I'll have to check some of them out.