I'm in need of distraction so I gakked this from vl_redreign

Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you -- The first 15 you can recall in 15 minutes.

1. Anne of Green Gables
2. The Awakening
3. Anna Karenina
4. Night
5. The Story of O
6. Into the Light (this is a book about sailing, fyi, lol)
7. The Crystal Cave
8. Eye of the Albatross
9. To Kill a Mockingbird
10. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
11. Hope for the Flowers
12. Flowers for Algernon
13. Silent Spring
14. The Giver
15. Griffin & Sabine

Some of this list surprises me....but it is what came first, so clearly these books have stuck. What an odd list...

A certain post has got me thinking about how I function as a writer and a reader. I tried to write it all out. It wasn't working for me.

So instead I decided to share with you the top five books I would hate to have never read. They aren't necessarily my favorites, or ones I've read again and again. They are just what I've said. They stuck with me more than anything else I've read, and for that reason, have to have affected me the greatest in the long term as a person, and possibly as a writer. I'm not sure I'd be me if I hadn't read them.

The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Eye of the Albatross by Carl Safina

What are 5 books you'd hate to have never read?

Don't ask me why these are mine...I doubt I could adequately explain it.