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

[neotula]

some super good stuff there!

i loved deltora quest too! formative weird fantasy for me as a kid!

also, visser specifically from animorphs! interesting/cool choice, i'd love to hear why that one stood out. (if i had to pick an animorphs book, i'd pick one of the trio about David: those hit me hard as a kid when i read 'em.)

i also loved dealing with dragons! that was such a fun series and one that inspired so much of my writing as a teen. always glad to see wild magic/tamora pierce, such good books.

[uskglass]

28/100 for me!! In particular -

- WOLF'S RAIN!! That was weird shit and I loved it back in the day!
- Remains of the Day is one of my favorite books in memory honestly but I have never reread it, or maybe once; I should go back to it...
- wooo Canticle for Leibowitz represent
- look that Revenge of the Sith novelization is just. so much fun.
- eyyy shoutout to Trickster Makes This World! Glad you liked, it often returns to my mind in many a context

[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.

[troisoiseaux]

Only 9/100, which is my lowest score yet! And most of those were The Classics(TM).

[helicoprion]

So I read all the Redwall books as a child or tween but do not remember what happened in what book or anything specific about Mattimeo - mind elaborating why that one grabbed ya? (trying to remember which ones were my big favorites at the time, and I'm pretty sure the crown goes to Pearls of Lutra. But the one I REREAD the most was Salamandastron, because unlike most of the series, that book at least lived in my room and not my brother's, lolol)

Also weird coincidence but I just grabbed Art and Fear from the library yesterday

[kradeelav]

12/100! a notable additional amount have been on the reading list since forever though. :) overlapped books were mostly the 'want to hear more about these fun cool weirdos' nonfiction type of books, an interest that i think we've shared for ages.

in a hurry packing but LOVE this meme and will make my own soon <3

[blotthis]

24, and I'm so excited about the rest of your list...

handshake no exit and gilgamesh, both of which I almost put on mine!!!

would LOVE to hear about art and fear. really thinking about horror aesthetics at the moment and about (neuro)aesthetics in general all the time

[necrophilia]

3/100!

I love the fact that you read the novelisation of Revenge of the Sith. Did you feel the SW books are worth it?

[silveredeye]

16/100 for me.

Besides the obvious (Too Like the Lightning, Gilead, various classics) I have also read The Player of Games (not my favorite Banks, but a solid one), and I really loved Kokoro. Would love to hear any rambling you have about either/both of those. :D

[snickfic]

20 for me! I was a little worried when I hadn't read the first several Le Guin, but fortunately you had lots more, haha.

[got_quiet]

Oooh, I love this list. I only got 11/100 but some of the hits were my all time favorite books. Kokoro literally changed my life. And Dealing with Dragons was my absolute favorite book when I was a little kid.

I am intrigued by the inclusion of Kierkegaard here, because I am trying to read him for the first time and he's driving me nuts. I never thought I'd want to retreat into the warm and comprehensible embrace of Nietzsche. So I'm curious about what your feelings about him are and what you felt his effect on you was.

[lassarina]

DEALING WITH DRAGONS

(my own list is so much less with the classics than this but omg, Patricia C. Wrede. also A+ for LeGuin.)

[airlock384]

0/100, how's THAT for an interesting number of overlaps--

[lavendre]

ayyyye 15/100. a lot of these titles are on my tbr that i'm familiar with even if i haven't read them hahaha

David Clement-Davies... literally have The Sight and Fell in my car to trade in at the local used bookstore tomorrow. now i'm wondering if i should part with them! XD