100 books meme

[queenlua]

here's a list of 100 books that were formative to me in some way, changed me in some way, etc etc

some books have aged better than others but are still there out of, y'know, honesty

i am probably forgetting so much shit from my childhood lol. alas i am not in front of my childhood bedroom bookshelf so i cannot stare at it to try and remember!

ANYWAY. how many books overlap OR (because this is more interesting than a number): any overlaps we share that are particularly exciting? any books you want to hear me ramble about?

Comments

[landofnowhere]

22/100 -- but the overlaps we share are particularly iconic (some are books that I had already considered putting on a hypothetical list if I made one). Sophie's World! To Mock a Mockingbird! Also some overlap in the pre-Harry Potter YA fantasy space :-) Also, I had mostly forgotten that Garrison Keillor-edited poetry collection, but I remember checking it out from he library, and that it had Elvis Kissed Me.

[queenlua]

honestly i credit that poetry collection a lot for my future love of poetry! it's got such a good range, picked from such a variety that i think just about anyone would find something they enjoy in it... prior to that i think i thought of poetry as mostly old-fashioned and sticking to rules of rhyme and such so it was neat to have lil-kid-me's brain expanded like "oh there's so much more going on in this scene than i knew"

[landofnowhere]

That's great! I get my love of poetry from my family mainly, but I also had a poetry collection that I imprinted on as a teenager (A Poem a Day edited by Karen McCosker and Nicholas Albery).