Ten significant books....

[fajrdrako]

Got this from acampbell and kathyh and a dozen other LJs.

My ten most important books:

1. Sir Francis Drake - author forgotten
2. The Phoenix and the Carpet - E. Nesbit
3. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Game of Kings - Dorothy Dunnett
5. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
6. Ariel - Andre Maurois
7. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
8. A History of the Crusades - Steven Runciman
9. Tehanu - Ursula LeGuin
10. Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay

The first seven I read in my teens or earlier, and they were extremely significant to me.

Comments

[kathyh]

Ahhh Tigana. I don't often cry over books but I cried over that one. I haven't read #1, #5, #6, #9 (which is a deeply guilty secret because I've read most of her books). All three volumes of #8 are sitting on my To Be Read pile.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Tigana

Wonderful, isn't it? I'm feeling an urge to reread it. There were so many things about that book that I loved.

Re Tehanu: I've heard a lot of people say it wasn't as good as the other Earthsea books. I loved it. Let me know what you think when you read it!

Maurois' Ariel was the book that hooked me on English Romantic poets in general and Shelley in particular. I was about thirteen when I read it.