Help! Fun help, I think!

[kate]

Hello there dwircle! Apologies for being absent. Life is absolutely bonkers and I shall not get into it right now because I have a task and it is a happy thing for a Saturday and a way to not think about work.

My nephew is turning 17 next Saturday. My older sister got him a poster of 100 books he should read (I think that's just a list and the poster isn't just... a big blob of text? I hope???) and 6 books off the list.

* To Kill a Mockingbird
* Grapes of Wrath
* The Shadow of the Wind
* Lord of the Flies
* The Da Vinci Code
* War and Peace

I also bought 8 books off the list.

* The Phantom Tollbooth
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
* Beloved
* Brave New World
* The Color Purple
* 1984
* The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
* The Little Prince

And then thought... you know what? I have books that I thought were worthy and changed my life. Important books to me, books that brought insight or just taught me new ways to look at things or just deeply affected me at different points in my life (as the 8 above had).

* The Lost Language of Cranes (David Leavitt)
* Blink (Malcolm Gladwell)
* Equal Rites (Terry Pratchett)
* Written on the Body (Jeannette Winterson)
* I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
* Nop's Trials (Daniel McCaig)
* Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)

I asked my wife, her friends, my friends, and their friends.

* Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)
* Passage (Connie Willis)
* Wicked (Gregory Maguire)
* The Alchemist (Paulo Coehlo)
* The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)
* The Folk Keeper (Franny Billingsley)
* The Art of War (Sun Tsu)
* The Dogs of Babel (Carolyn Parkhurst)

And now I am asking you fine folks. What books would you add here? Books that brought you joy, challenged you, taught you something, or made you feel something? He loves to read, so while he might not read everything, he will try, and I want to give him as wide a variety of authors and subjects as possible. Your help is GREATLY appreciated. Also, wax lyrical about your fave books, fam, I want to hear it. <33333

Comments

[kate]

Oh, excellent, thank you! Beloved is one of the books I have bought, yes! I am really interested in the Russ, I will probably get that for myself and pass it along, heh.

Thanks so much for the recs!