Formative Books

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It's a bit childish-looking, I think, but after all, I'm only twenty, and for books that I really observe to have had a formative effect on me, I have to look back a bit.

I couldn't even begin to organize them by importance (and that would probably be even more embarrassing), so I organized them chronologically, instead. As far as I can remember, anyway. My chronology of my own life is distressingly vague. The list does span age eight through age sixteen, I'm fairly certain.

1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
   
2. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
   
3. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes by John H. Watson, M.D. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, edited by William S. Baring-Gould
   
4. The Woman in the Walls by Patrice Kindl
   
5. Mike by P.G. Wodehouse
   
6. The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
   
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (quintet trilogy) by Douglas Adams
   
8. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
   
9. The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
   
10. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

Make of this what you will.