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my Top 10 books:
Lifetime Readings
Watership Down by Richard Adams
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
Fup by Jim Dodge
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Fire in the Belly by Sam Keen
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life by Maurice Sendak
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tse (Stephen Mitchell translation)
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt VonnegutAs The Brothers Karamazov was the source of my namesake, Alyosha, I shall have to read that eventually. And I've heard so much about One Hundred Years of Solitude that it's going on my List of Things to Read. Joyce has intimidated me ever since I attempted to conquer Finnegans Wake at age 12 and failed afer 15 pages, but I've heard A Portrait is easier to understand. I'll give it a try.
It was difficult to limit myself to ten books. I had ten, and then I
thought of Riddley Walker, so I had to delete one. The runner-up, then, is Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
In case you were wondering.
"Life is mystical. We're just used to it." --Wolf