books. everyone loves books.

[fahye]

Alright, so we're playing the 15-books-I-would-take-away-to-college (or get stuck with on a desert island, whatever) game. This is an interesting exercise, because this isn't my 15 favourite books. (I love Good Omens to pieces but know it back to front by now.) My list reflects the books I'd read again and again and again and again, mostly because they have had - and are still having - a great impact on me and my style, and because reading any of these invariably makes me feel like writing. That's something precious.

Comment with your own list? I'm curious. And always on the lookout for new things, despite my staggeringly long existing to-read list.



Julian Barnes: A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Robert Dessaix: (and so forth)
Jostein Gaarder: Sophie's World
Neil Gaiman: American Gods, Smoke & Mirrors
Peter Hoeg: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Elizabeth Knox: The Vintner's Luck
Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club
Terry Pratchett: Night Watch
Tom Robbins: Skinny Legs And All
William Shakespeare: The complete works. Shut up, it's a single volume, it counts as one. I will fight anyone who claims otherwise.
Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
John Varley: The Golden Globe
Jeanette Winterson: Art & Lies
Diana Wynne Jones: Howl's Moving Castle

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[dopplegl.livejournal.com]

In no particular order:

Neil Gaiman: American Gods, Good Omens
Bret Easton Ellis: Rules of Attraction, Glamorama
Chuck Palahniuk: Invisible Monsters, Fight Club
Michael Cunningham: A Home at the End of the World
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
Hubert Selby Jr.: Requiem for a Dream
Dennis Lehane: Mystic River
Elmore Leonard: Out of Sight
Andre Dubus III: House of Sand and Fog
F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise (For serious, I love it so much already)
Tony Kushner: Angels in America
S.D. Perry: Resident Evil: City of the Dead

[fahye.livejournal.com]

If I owned Angels in America, it would be on the list. As it is, it goes on my theoretical list of DVDs I could watch forever and ever.