These are all the ones I can think of that I could read over and over and never get tired of that I found in high school and under:
1. The Gom on Windy Mountain quartet by Grace Chetwin
2. Dragon's Blood and Heart's Blood by Jane Yolen
3. The Indian in the Cupboard books and The Fairy Rebel by Lynn Reid Banks
4. The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones
5. The Crystal Cave series by Mary Stewart
6. The first few Redwall books by Brian Jacques
7. The Three Musketeers and Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
8. Any Madeline L'Engle book, especially Many Waters
9. Narnia books by C.S. Lewis
10. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (made me cry every time)
11. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (This was my first memorable introduction of how cruel and unfair the world and other people could be, and I still remember bits of it after reading it only once.)
And, I'm almost embarrassed to say, the first thirty or so of the Star Trek: the Next Generation books, because I was a huge Trekkie, but those got my imagination going and got me really serious about making up stories.
I never did make it through LOTR. I read Les Mis in middle school--took me three weeks. And, after a four-year reading drought during college, I owe a lot to Mercedes Lackey's earlier books (especially Firebird and Magiic's Pawn/Promise/Price) for getting me reading again and getting me serious about writing.
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Date: 2007-04-22 05:38 am (UTC)1. The Gom on Windy Mountain quartet by Grace Chetwin
2. Dragon's Blood and Heart's Blood by Jane Yolen
3. The Indian in the Cupboard books and The Fairy Rebel by Lynn Reid Banks
4. The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones
5. The Crystal Cave series by Mary Stewart
6. The first few Redwall books by Brian Jacques
7. The Three Musketeers and Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
8. Any Madeline L'Engle book, especially Many Waters
9. Narnia books by C.S. Lewis
10. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (made me cry every time)
11. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (This was my first memorable introduction of how cruel and unfair the world and other people could be, and I still remember bits of it after reading it only once.)
And, I'm almost embarrassed to say, the first thirty or so of the Star Trek: the Next Generation books, because I was a huge Trekkie, but those got my imagination going and got me really serious about making up stories.
I never did make it through LOTR. I read Les Mis in middle school--took me three weeks. And, after a four-year reading drought during college, I owe a lot to Mercedes Lackey's earlier books (especially Firebird and Magiic's Pawn/Promise/Price) for getting me reading again and getting me serious about writing.