15 Books

[faustus]

This has been doing the rounds on another social utility - so I thought I'd have a go. Name the fifteen books that will always stay with you - first thoughts, what you think of in fifteen minutes, that sort of thing.

I'm not entirely surprised that only two books by women appeared (The Teddy Robinson books should be there), and I was looking for the theory book that made me quiver, but it's pseuds corner. Many of these I read for the first time between 16 and 21 (or younger):


1. A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
2. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
3. Geoff Ryman, "Was..."
4. Gerry Davies, Doctor Who and the Cybermen
5. J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company
6. Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
7. Joanna Russ, The Female Man
8. Katherine Mansfield, Collected Stories
9. Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
10. Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
11. Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip
12. Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
13. T.S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations
14. Thom Gunn, The Sense of Movement
15. William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch


The interesting question would be why these fifteen...