More memey things

[amberdreams]

Stolen from downjune because I can't resist anything to do with books.  Even though I haven't read anything but fanfic for about a year!!!

Take 10 minutes to make a list of books that have been important to you at some time in your life. Don't stop to think, justify, add authors, or make notes. When 10 minutes are up, you can reorder the list and add additional information. Readers can ask questions about the books on the list.

I haven't reordered these, just made sure I've got the right titles and authors matched up, so these are the order I remembered them in:

Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien

The Road to Sardis – Stephanie Plowman

The Road to Miklagard trilogy - Henry Treece

The Sword at Sunset - Rosemary Sutcliffe

The Anglo Saxon Chronicles

The Phoenix Legacy trilogy - M K Wren

The One and Future King - T H White

The Pokey Little Puppy

The Sparrow – Mary Doria Russell

Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

Alhambra – Madeleine Pollock

A Slave of the Huns – Geza Gardonyi

The Golden Shadow - Leon Garfield

Maurice Druon’s Cursed Kings series

A Sprig of Broom series – Barbara Willard

A Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey

Neverending Story – Michael Ende

Beau Geste – P C Wren

The Book of Lost Things – John Connelly

Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley

Set All Afire - Louis de Wohl

Pat Barker Regeneration trilogy

All Quiet on the Western Front – Eric Maria Remarque

The Source – James A Mitchener

Dr Seuss’ Sleep Book

The Flight of the Heron series by D K Broster

Paddington – Michael Bond

Just William – Richmal Compton
Jennings Goes to School - Anthony Buckeridge
In the Beginning - Chaim Potok
The Magnet comics (Billy Bunter) - Frank Richards

Game of Thrones – George RR Martin

Riddle Master of Hed – Patricia McKillip

First Man in Rome – Colleen McCullough

The Copper Crown - Patricia Kenneally

Dune – Frank Herbert

The Many Coloured Land – Julian May

Names for Boys and Girls – Johnson & Sleigh

Fire from Heaven – Mary Renault

The Roman – Mika Waltari

Green Darkness – Anya Seyton
Lord Valentine's Castle - Robert Siverberg

They are scattered over quite a few decades!

Comments

[downjune.livejournal.com]

Oh, Dr. Suess and Paddington! I should have had those, and Maurice Sendak (sp) Where the Wild Things Are!

[amber1960.livejournal.com]

Ah - Where the Wild Things Are was never one I got into - I think it came too late for me...

Paddington used to have me in fits of giggles, I remember reading over meals and nearly choking myself laughing...

[etrix.livejournal.com]

There's only a few that we share, but Riddle-Master of Hed jumped out. Such an excellent trilogy! I had it in hardback, and between me and my mom, we read it until the spine fell apart.

[amber1960.livejournal.com]

I loved that series so much - it took me a while to get all 3, they seemed to be out of print over here for a frustratingly long time! Mine are only paperbacks but they are well thumbed...

[etrix.livejournal.com]

My copy (which my mom wouldn't let me bring down with me) has duct tape on the spine. I don't know what we're going to do when that stops working.

If you like that one so much, I highly recommend Sarah Monette's Doctrine of Labyrinth series. It has the same lyricism and world building as Riddlemaster, but with a darker society and heroes who are more flawed. Or the Black Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop. Both of these are wonderful series.

[amber1960.livejournal.com]

Ooh thanks, I've not come across either of those - and I do love a flawed hero...