The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books/authors (poets included) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.
Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Winnie-the-Pooh/ The House at Pooh Corner - A.A. Milne
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Thornbirds - Colleen McCulloch
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Calvin and Hobbes (comic books count, I decided) - Bill Watterson
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Lorax - Dr. Seuss
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Atlas Shrugged made it on their too! At first I didn't see Fountainhead and was ready to have a "I told you so!" moment.
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