This can be a quick one. Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you.
Mine, in no particular order:
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Behold The Man – Michael Moorcock
The World According To Garp – John Irving
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Man In The High Castle – Phillip K Dick
The White Family – Maggie Gee
Saturday – Ian McEwan
Will You Please Be Quiet Please – Raymond Carver
Lullaby – Chuck Palahniuk
Some Rain Must Fall – Michel Faber
Consider Phlebas -Iain M Banks
Book of Matches – Simon Armitage
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
There are loads more I could mention, but these were the first fifteen to come to mind, which must mean something. Anyhow, the list is a side issue. The exercise itself gave me ten minutes reflection on what it is I love about writing. Good way to get the motor running before I head off to try and batter the last 2,000 words of my current short story into submission.
If you have a crack at this, put your list or a link in the comments below.
Dan Powell 
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Here are my 15:
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Silence and Music – Rose Tremain
Babel’s Tower – A S Byatt
The White Hotel – D M Thomas
Exodus – Leon Uris
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernières
I’ll Take You There – Joyce Carol Oates
What I loved – Siri Hustvedt
We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
Mara and Dann – Doris Lessing
The Post Office Girl – Stefan Zweig
Good exercise. I too could have gone on and on.
Here are my 15:
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Silence and Music – Rose Tremain
Babel’s Tower – A S Byatt
The White Hotel – D M Thomas
Exodus – Leon Uris
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernières
I’ll Take You There – Joyce Carol Oates
What I loved – Siri Hustvedt
We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
Mara and Dann – Doris Lessing
The Post Office Girl – Stefan Zweig
Good exercise. I too could have gone on and on.
Great list.
We Need To Talk About Kevin would certainly be in my next fifteen. A difficult book to read in that it charts such dark territory, but utterly compelling.
Thanks for sharing.
Great list.
We Need To Talk About Kevin would certainly be in my next fifteen. A difficult book to read in that it charts such dark territory, but utterly compelling.
Thanks for sharing.
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