Since I seem to have gone four days without posting, let's do a meme, shall we?

Take no more than 15 minutes to produce a list of 15 books that have influenced you in style, ideas, relationships, language, or other ways that you find important, and/or books that have really stayed with you -- you keep thinking of that quote, you are always remembering that character, you are frequently reminded of that moment.... that kind of thing. This is not a favorites list.

1) Watership Down, Richard Adams
2) Little, Big, John Crowley
3) Masquerade, Kit Williams
4) Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
5) Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
6) A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
7) Master Snickup's Cloak, Alexander Theroux
8) To Mock a Mockingbird Raymond Smullyan
9) In the Night Garden / In the Cities of Coin and Spice, Catherynne M. Valente
10) Black Feathers, Cecilia Tan
11) An Incompleat Education, Judy Jones and William Wilson
12) Ulysses, James Joyce
13) The Complete Works of e.e. cummings
14) Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
15) If at All Possible, Involve a Cow, Neil Steinberg
16) Mariette in Ecstasy, Ron Hansen
17) Lavondyss, Robert Holdstock
18) The Boomer Bible, R.F. Laird
19) The Making of a Cook, Madeleine Kamman
20) The Juggling Book, Carlo

All right, so I overshot by five titles. Sue me. (Still came in under the 15-minute mark, though.)