The 10 Books That Have a Impacted You

[Josephine]

Some of us did this exercise yesterday and it was quite fascinating to see everyone’s responses. The rules are you have to pick ten books that have impacted your life, good or bad. Not inspired, but impacted. Don’t overthink it. Don’t rationalize your choice. Don’t evaluate your choices. Just list.

Here is mine:

1. Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling

2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

3. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White

4. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

5. Anne of Green Gables, L. Maud Montgomery

6. Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

7. Persuasion, Jane Austen

8. Grimms Fairy Tale, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

9. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

10. Read Aloud Handbook, Jim Trelease

And because I can’t follow my own rules, here are my bonus additions:

11. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

12. Little House… by Laura Ingalls Wilder

13. Building Dolls’ House Interiors by Carrol and Nigel Lodder

14. The Stand by Stephen King.

[Keb]

1. A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgeson Burnett.
2. Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.
3. The Wizard of Oz, and The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
4. Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett (and the rest of the Discworld novels after)
5. Beauty and the Beast, by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
6. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone & the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling
7. Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
8. Heidi, by Johanna Spyri
9. Grimm’s Fairytales, by the brothers Grimm (and their various oral sources)
10. The Seventh Princess by Nick Sullivan

Also a major impact were the American Girl books, by various authors, and the columns of Dave Barry as well as his books.

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[nevermore]

I’m assuming we’re limiting it to fiction? If so, in no particular order:

1. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

2. Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

3. Stephen King, The Dark Tower series

4. Charlotte Bronte, Jayne Eyre

5. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

6. Grimm’s Fairytales

7. Mark Danielewski’s The House of Leaves

8. Jorge Luis Borges, (can’t pick a specific one, pretty much all his writing)

9. Neil Gaiman, The American Gods

10. David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

[WickedRegal]

1. The Bible – Too many authors to list

2. Blonde: The Life of Marilyn Monroe – Joyce Carol Oates

3. Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – Gregory Maguire

4. Harry Potter – J.K. Rowling

5. The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks

6. Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen

7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8. How The Grinch Stole Christmas, The Cat In The Hat, Green Eggs & Ham – Dr. Seuss

9. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee

10. The Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

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[MatthewPaul]

1. Harry Potter – J.K. Rowling
2. Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkein
3. All Dr. Seuss Books.
4. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
5. The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
6. Holes – Louis Sachar
7. Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
8. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
9. The Giver – Lois Lowry
10. Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson

[RumplesGirl]

In no particular order

1. A Song of Ice and Fire series–George RR Martin

2. The Harry Potter Series–JK Rowling

3. Crime and Punishment–Fydor Dovtovesky

4. Pride and Prejudice–Jane Austen

5. Wuthering Heights–Emily Bronte

6. Jane Eyre–Charlotte Bronte

7. Gone with the Wind–Margaret Mitchell

8. Misquoting Jesus–Bart Erman

9. American Gods–Neil Gaiman

10. The Odyssey–Homer

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[onceaholic]

1. Anne of Green Gables

2. Matilda

3. James and the Giant Peach

4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

5. A Thousand Splendid Suns

6. The Kite Runner

7. The Colour Purple

8. Jane Eyre

9. Tess of the D’Urbervilles

10. Peter Pan and Wendy (the original, full novel).

Sorry, I can’t limit it to 10….

11. Charlotte’s Web.

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[Myril]

The Outsiders of Uskoken Castle – Thomas Held
Detective in Togas – Henry Winterfeld
The Last Man Alive – A.S. Neill
Lord of The Rings and The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien (to name just the two books that got me into this fantasy world)
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka
John Sinclair a German pulp fiction series, it’s a bit like Dresden Files or John Constantine
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Der Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse
The Turning Point – Klaus Mann
The Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

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