Books That Stick

As Rebecca said, this meme has been making the rounds on Facebook. This would be a lot harder (maybe impossible) if it were fifteen favorite books, but, no, it’s just fifteen books that you can think of in fifteen minutes that stick with you. In that case, I could go on and on, but here’s my fifteen (in no particular order):

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis
The Brothers K by David James Duncan
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
Dakota by Kathleen Norris
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory by Randall Balmer
Mudhouse Sabbath by Lauren Winner
Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

And now I want to go back and read each of these (and several more that came to mind).