Brian "tagged" me with a note on facebook, so I'm going to answer it here, even though I'm terrible at making subjective lists about my own preferences and/or object hierarchies. So the deal is to list 15 books without taking lots of time to think about it (yeah, that's NOT fair), which have had the greatest impact upon you as a person. The kicker--you cannot use the Bible (why not, I ask?). Anyhow, if you are reading this, consider yourself tagged.
Disclaimer: I'm sure Brian's books were in order of 1st preference, but mine are going to be chronological.
1. Where the Sidewalk Ends & A Light in the Attic (Shel Silverstein)
2. The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
3. The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
4. A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet [I didn't even know about the fourth and fifth until last year] (Madeline L'Engle)
5. Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
6. Passion & Purity (Elisabeth Elliot)
7. Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength (C.S. Lewis)
8. The Pendragon Cycle (Stephen R. Lawhead)
9. Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
10. Customs & Controversies: Intertestamental Jewish Backgrounds of the New Testament [now renamed as the more boring, Jewish Backgrounds of the New Testament] (J. Julius Scott)
11. Till We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)
12. Thales to Dewey: A History of Philosophy (Gordon Haddon Clark)
13. A Christian View of Men and Things (Gordon Haddon Clark)
14. On the Teacher (Aurelius Augustine)
15. Institutes of the Christian Religion (John Calvin)
16. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas)
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