Back to the grind, and right at the time where things are about to go haywire with fall orientation. In our staff meeting yesterday, we ended it with a little bonding "What's your favorite book?" question. Even though my boss allowed us to share different genres (i.e., my favorite fantasy book is... but my favorite children's book is...) my mind went haywire because I have way too many favorite books, and couldn't even categorize them. So I just want to list all these books (or short stories, flash fiction pieces, etc) that I love and have had a profound influence on me, one way or another.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl by Ray Bradbury
The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Enfance by Nathalie Sarraute
Une si longue lettre by Mariama Bâ
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Du côté de chez Swann by Marcel Proust
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
The Seaside Houses by John Cheever
Wants by Grace Paley
I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Goodbye to All This by Joan Didion
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Chandler
Anyway, that's what I have off the top of my head. I may add to this later, it's just for my own reference.
There are plenty of other good books out there I have read and enjoyed and think are noteworthy (On The Road by Jack Kerouac or The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, or Suite française by Irène Némirovsky) but those just didn't ~move~ me the way those above did, for one reason or another.
And since I have strong feelings, I can also tell you that I do not like dystopian novels (Hunger Games is aiight) or Jane Austen, so keep those far away from me!
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