Thank you for the tag!! I love this!! These are in no order at all. I’m taking “stuck with me the most” as the ones that spring to mind as probably being responsible for rewiring my brain in childhood. (aka, reasons why I’m Like This.)
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy (stuck with me? More like HAUNTS ME! I had to look up who the author even was but this spooked me out so good and I read it constantly as a kid, and I still think about it a lot.)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Pigman by Paul Zindel—anyone else read this??? Messed me UP!!
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsberg.
A Separate Peace by John Knowles (at like 13 or 14 I had an intense physical attraction to Phineas, all right? I can’t even get into it.)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - Not childhood but has definitely stuck with me and I think about it a lot.
What, you thought I was going to say Les Misérables? Well that goes without saying doesn’t it? And Crime and Punishment has definitely taken over my brain (and my blog) and is going to stick with me, but that’s so recent.
There are a ton of other books that have had a deep impact on me and that I carry inside of me which should be on this list, but I had to just throw out the first ten that came to mind. And like I said, these are ones that I really think rewired my brain.
I tag @patron-minette, @granhairdo, @theskittlemuffin, @vintageshits, @battydings, @raskolnikovatthebarricade, @the-most-sublime-fool and anyone else who would like to do this—but no pressure!!
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