The 15 Books Thing
Posted by andyslack on 13 June 2009
A challenge from Facebook; list the first 15 books you think of in 15 minutes that will stay with you forever. Here are the ones I came up with, and this will cross-post to Facebook so it should turn up there too…
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- How to Make War by James F Dunnigan
- Secret Service: 33 Centuries of Espionage by Richard Wilmer Rowan and Robert G Deindorfer
- Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein
- The Empire of the East trilogy by Fred Saberhagen
- The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
- The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
- The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
- The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
- The Star Fox by Poul Anderson
- The Winds of Gath by E C Tubb
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig
Interestingly, unlike Anna (who generally doesn’t read anything written after 1830) I see all of mine are post-1930. These are just the first 15 I thought of; I notice Conan, Sherlock Holmes and Dracula are missing, despite also being tales that will stick with me forever.
