An old friend of mine, Cathy Green, started a series of “15 Books” postings on Facebook a few days ago. The idea is to list 15 favorite books that you can think of within 15 minutes.
Here’s my list:
Illuminatus! — Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea
Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson
The Gold Bug Variations — Richard Powers
Money — Martin Amis
Hyperion — Dan Simmons
Excession — Iain M. Banks
The Book of the New Sun — Gene Wolfe
Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
The World of Late Antiquity — Peter Brown
Nine Hundred Grandmothers — R.A. Lafferty
Main Street — Sinclair Lewis
Pale Fire — Vladimir Nabokov
This Immortal — Roger Zelazny
Islands in the Net — Bruce Sterling
Flag of Ecstasy — Charles Henri Ford
Of course, there are many books I wish I had listed.
After I posted my list, science fiction author L. Neil Smith posted his list of 15 books. You can find his list and other lists here.
What are your favorite 15? Post in the comments.
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Off the top of my head in no particular order, but does anyone see a pattern here?
The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
Under the Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes
The Road from Coorain - Jill Ker Conway
Traveling Mercies - Anne Lamott
The Shell Seekers - Rosamund Pilcher
Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
Sea Room - Adam Nicolson
Kon Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl
On Rue Tatin - Susan Loomis
The Boat Who Wouldn't Float - Farley Mowat
Roman Fever - Edith Wharton
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
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at Gettysburg, Garry Wills
At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Peter Matthiessen
Independent People, Haldor Laxness
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Crazy Horse, Mari Sandoz
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
them, Joyce Carol Oates
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
A Thousand Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Huck Finn, Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
The Arc of Justice, Kevin Boyle
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe