Random Book meme (Thirstysmurf's fault)

[lenora_rose]

Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you -- list the first 15 you can recall in 15 minutes.

(Caveat: I have too many books within sight. While much of what I list will be from other rooms in the house, influence probably creeps.)

1: Susan Cooper - Seaward
2: Terry Pratchett - Small Gods (You always remember your first. Also, probably still my favourite place to suggest other people start.)
3: Terry Pratchett - Night Watch (His best to date.)
4: Robin McKinley - Deerskin
5: Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys (The first one actually in the room with me)
6: Barry Hughart - Bridge of Birds
7: Ellen Kushner - Swordspoint.
8: Naomi Novik - His Majesty's Dragon (Probably wouldn't make the list were it not in sight, but, in all honesty, probably deserves it anyhow. Actually, Empire of Ivory would deserve it most, but I don't own that one, and it needs the spear built through the first three.)
9: Emma Bull and Steven Brust - Freedom and Necessity.
10: Elizabeth Bear - Ink and Steel and Hell and Earth (The two volumes of the Stratford Man)
11: Pamela Dean - Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary
12: Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (Light and whimsical)
13: Diana Wynne Jones - Fire and Hemlock (... not)
14: Peter Straub - Shadowland (also memorable because it's the only book of his that I read that I care about, and it leapt to my favourites shelf.)
15: Charles De Lint - Someplace to Be Flying.

And once I gave myself leave to look around, these are some "D'oh!" books:
Jane Yolen - Briar Rose
Peter S. Beagle - The Last Unicorn
Lois McMaster Bujold - Paladin of Souls
Margart Mahy - The Tricksters
Joan D. Vinge - Catspaw.

Swirl all of those together, and you might get an idea what I'd like to write like. (Although not all at once!)