book meme 2: the new list

kyasuriin took a throwaway comment I made and started up a really cool meme. We agreed on the fact that the list that was going around a while ago was insufficient and narrowly focused, so here is the beginning of another one.

Look at the list below. These are the books that someone found valuable. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you started or have read bits of, italicize the ones you want to read. Add your own five books and pass it along)


1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
2. Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
3. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
4. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
5. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
6. A Little Love Song by Michelle Magorian [for being rather awesome about the whole woman thing]
7. Arcadia by Tom Stoppard [for talking about love without talking about it much]
8. Ronia the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren [because she practices not being afraid]
9. Earthsea series by Ursula K. LeGuin [because the heroes aren't always white and because truth is never simple but sometimes beautiful and because real freedom does save you when magic can't]
10. Women and Apple Trees by Moa Martinsson [because it knocked me flat with awesome]

EVERYONE should do this. Especially thesamefire and sinuous_curve and emilytheodd, because all of you complained about the canon, but I want all of your valuable books. So, like, if you enjoy reading (oddishly, blindmouse, softlyforgotten etc.), you should do this. GIVE THEM TO ME. Or tell me what they are, I don't mean literally give them to me.

I totally do.