Booking Through Thursday - Sticky

Today's question comes from Shelley and asks:

"This can be a quick one.  Don't take too long to think about it.  Fifteen books that you've read that will always stick with you.  First fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes"

My answer:

Though not necessarily my "favorite" fifteen,  these are books, both fiction and nonfiction, that have really stuck with me over  the years. They have opened my eyes to new places, cultures or time periods.  They have increased my understanding, or broadened my perspective of people or events. The writing may have been some of the best I'd ever read, or perhaps it was a book from childhood that I returned to over and over again.

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
   
2. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
   
3. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
   
4. Corelli's Mandolin by Louis deBernieres
   
5. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
   
6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
   
7. The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street)
   
8. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
   
9. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
   
10. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
    
11. The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede
    
12. And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts
    
13. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
    
14. The Diary of Anne Frank
    
15. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh