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Ten books that have stayed with you  Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag ten friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. 

(I am condensing into a mix of novels and series because otherwise this list would be dominated by Redwall and Harry Potter exclusively)

1. The Redwall series by Brian Jacques 

2. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

3. The Codex Alera by Jim Butcher

4. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

5. The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson

6. The Warriors series by Erin Hunter

7. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway

9. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

At that hour when all things have repose, O lonely watcher of the skies, Do you hear the night wind and the sighs Of harps playing unto Love to unclose The pale gates of sunrise? When all things repose, do you alone Awake to hear the sweet harps play To Love before him on his way, And the night wind answering in antiphon Till night is overgone? Play on, invisible harps, unto Love, Whose way in heaven is aglow At that hour when soft lights come and go, Soft sweet music in the air above And in the earth below.

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