Okay. Liam asked me, via private message, if I'd post on the 50 Favorite Books thread. The situation is, I'm not all that eager to put tons of time into compiling a list of my 50 favorite books. I'd like to be able to think about my choices. . .and this means it's not something I can do spontaneously, really. At the same time, in order to let Liam and everyone else here know a little more about me (Liam says one of the best ways to get to know someone is finding out what their favorite books are), I've decided to start this thread.
For those who have shared my feeling of being overwhelmed in regard to making a list of 50 (!!!) books that are their most highly cherished, I suggest that you seize this opportunity to post your top 15 favorites--or, at least, 15 books that you can think of quickly and almost effortlessy that have meant a lot to you.
I'm going first, obviously, since I stared this thread. It helps that I'm a bold and daring woman!
Emma--Jane Austen
War and Peace--Leo Tolstoy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles--Thomas Hardy
Dorothy Parker, the complete short fiction
The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone--Tennessee Williams
The Cocktail Party--T.S. Eliot
Of Human Bondage--W. Somerset Maugham
Les Miserables--Victor Hugo
The Red and the Black--Henri-Beyle Stendhal
East of Eden--John Steinbeck
Wise Blood--Flannery O'Connor
The Black Prince--Iris Murdoch
The Pickwick Papers--Charles Dickens
A Room of One's Own--Virginia Woolf
Emily Dickinson--the complete poems
Hmm. That ended up being 16 books instead of 15. . .but who's counting that closely, right?
Liam, you're next, sweetie. Go for it!
--Diana