Dont take too long to think about it: fifteen books youve read that will always stick with you. Make sure its the first fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Alex note: Since childhood, Ive tended to blow through several books by the same writer if I really love them. Or, two books that serve as two points in a line (or three that form a shape) in the way I permanently think about the world. Those groups constitute a single place in my imagination and therefore I have listed them together here. I am aware that this is cheating but who cares. Think of it as a map of my literary life. Or think of it this way: these are the arrangements of words that have permanently altered me. Also Im 24 so Im doing 24. 1. East of Eden by John Steinbeck, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 2. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed, Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York by Sari Botton, On Writing by Stephen King 3. Pedro and Me by Judd Winick 4. Maybe a Miracle by Brian Strause 5. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper, Whats Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges (they are related, I swear) 6. Different Seasons, Misery, The Long Walk by Stephen King 7. Citrus County by John Brandon, Arkansas by John Brandon 8. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, White Oleander by Janet Fitch 9. The Chris Farley Show by Tom Farley Jr. , Bossypants by Tina Fey 10. This Boys Life by Tobias Wolfe 11. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 12. Into the Great Wide Open by Kevin Cantry 13. The Bear by William Faulkner 14. Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace, Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story by D.T Max 15. Matilda by Roald Dahl, The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery 16. How To Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen 17. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith 18. The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll 19. Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 20. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Rock 21. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 22. It by Stephen King 23. A Supposedly Fun Thing Ill Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace 24. The Stories of Breece DJ Pancake
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