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15 impactful/memorable books (for slippery definitions of "book"):

Lord of the Rings
Stranger in a Strange Land
The adventures of Miles Vorkosigan and Cordelia Naismith
A Little Princess
Little House on the Prairie
The Crystal Cave
Our Bodies, Ourselves
The World of Star Trek
The Heinlein juveniles: Podkayne of Mars, Rolling Stones, etc.
The Bible
A Wrinkle in Time
Gone With the Wind
Grimm's Fairy Tales [unexpurgated]
The Joy of Cooking
The Works of William Shakespeare

Comments

[cat9.livejournal.com]

The Joy of Cooking

Nice. Cookbooks didn't even cross my mind...but they should have!

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Whoa, that's the second time in 24 hours that someone has mentioned actually having read The World of Star Trek to me. I thought I was the only one, because by the time I ran across other people who might have run across a copy, it wasn't occurring to me to ask.

[iheronimus.livejournal.com]

My own Mistress Caitlin turned me on to the Vorkosigan books - definitely worth reading!

[jimpage363.livejournal.com]

Good list!
I would have forgotten the cookbooks, too, but, considering how much joy (and cholesterol) they have brought to my life, this would be a grave disservice.