15 Books in 15 Minutes

Laura posted this in her latest blog and I thought I would carry the torch.

The instructions are to come up with 15 books in no more than 15 mintues that have stuck with you, for better for for worse. Here is my list, feel free to post your own:

1. A Dog Called Kitty - Bill Wallace (My favorite book in grade 4)
2. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
3. The Chronicles of Narnia series - C.S. Lewis
4. Mother West Wind Why and How Stories - Thornton W. Burgess (My father read these to me before bed as a child. Sentimentally awesome)
5. Children of the Promise series - Dean Hughes ( a Mormon series set in WW II)
6. East of Eden - John Steinbeck (I don't know who can beat this kind of story-telling)
7. An Instance of the Fingerpost - Ian Pears (a loooong but interesting murder mystery as told by four very unreliable narrators that also describes scientific thought in Restoration Europe. It entertains to teach.)
8. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (a spiritual allegory)
9. The Outsider - Albert Camus (the epitome of existentialism)
10. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
11. Green Grass, Running Water - Thomas King (formatted to represent Native American oral story telling. Quite interesting and hilarious.)
12. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (One of the most moving books I've ever read)
13. Dune series - Frank Herbert (a science fiction metaphor for the politics and religious extremism surrounding the middle east and its natural resources)
14. The Fall of a Titan - Igor Gouzenko (Oh how the mighty hath fallen! An extremely powerful cautionary tale of moral descent set in Communist Russia)
15. Wild Geese - Martha Ostenso (A poignant take of Canadian prairie isolationism)

Like Laura, I would also love to read your lists. Sometimes it's funny what sticks with us.

J