Books that Stayed with Me
I recently got tagged in the following meme on Facebook and decided to expand on it a bit:
Rules: 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 – they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.
The original post said to tag ten people (I did, on my FB page!). But I’m changing up the rules for blogs. Post your ten books on your own blog; feel free to comment here with a link to it!
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My 10 Books:
1. Sunshine by Robin McKinley—It inspired me to write my first novel.
2. The Odyssey by Homer—I find myself thinking of it a lot, as when I saw dogs lazing about all over Athens, Greece.
Also: Dog lazing about in Greece in November 2013:
And: Statue of Dog lazing about in Greece from the National Museum in Athens:
3. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien—the first “grown-up” book I read, in the first grade. I read the Lord of the Rings in the fourth grade. I actually understood much of it when I re-read it in high school. 
4. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams—the first time I really understood that SF could be funny.
5. Pride and Prejudice. Because Jane Austen!
6. A Wrinkle in Time—probably read it ten times in grade school.
7. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis—she is one of my favorite writers ever, and this book is great time-travel fun!
8. On Her Majesty’s Occult Service by Charles Stross—actually an anthology of The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue. Introduced me to the horrific beauty that is the combination of British bureaucracy and Lovecraftian Elder Gods.
9. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman—this book sparked my deep and abiding love for all things Gaiman.
10. A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold—I love all of Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan series (I re-read them regularly), but this book is an absolute joy. It’s worth reading all the ones that come before if only to read this comedy-of-manners-meets-space-opera masterpiece.
