Inspired by a post on a friend's blog, I'll try this:
Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 books you've read
that will always stick with you -- The first 15 you can recall in 15
minutes.
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde
- The Virginian by Owen Wister
- Cameraworks by David Hockney
- The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
- The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication by Stephen Budiansky
- Rats, Lice, and History by Hans Zinsser
- House by Tracy Kidder
- Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
- Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences by Edward Tenner
- Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills
- One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry
- The Control of Nature by John McPhee
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Oops that's sixteen. It probably would have taken longer than 15 minutes if I weren't sitting in my library.
