Some Books: 35 + 1 = ?

I have been procrastinating on completing this tag (from Jessica @ 9to5Poet), partly because it kind of felt like homework, but, mostly, because how on earth can I pick 35 books to represent myself?! Every book I have ever read -- good, bad, or indifferent -- is rattling around in my being...

I don't even know what this list is, except, perhaps, a stream-of-consciousness sample of some books that have stayed with me. I can only say these are the books that came to mind, in the order they came there, and I stopped at 36 -- that's how old I am this year. This is torture.

1. Roots - Haley
2. The Little Prince - St. Exupery
3. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - Konigsburg
4. Where the Sidewalk Ends - Silverstein
5. Danny, Champion of the World - Dahl
6. Maus - Spiegelman
7. Understanding Comics - McCloud
8. The House on Mango Street - Cisneros
9. The Language Instinct - Pinker
10. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
11. Jane Eyre - Bronte
12. The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
13. Bird by Bird - Lamott
14. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Hurston
    
15. A Whole New Mind - Pink
16. The Tipping Point - Gladwell
17. The Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver
18. The Lovely Bones - Sebold
19. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Angelou
    
20. A Wizard of Earthsea - Leguin
21. Weetzie Bat - Block
22. How to Eat Like a Child - Ephron
23. The Hobbit - Tolkien
24. The Chronicles of Narnia (Set) - Lewis
25. Pippi Longstocking (Set) - Lindgren
26. The Color Purple - Walker
    
27. Reflections on the Gift of a Watermelon Pickle - Dunning, et al
28. A Day No Pigs Would Die - Peck
    
29. Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art - ed. Greenberg
30. Preposterous - ed. Janeczko
    
31. The Cider House Rules - Irving
32. The Transitive Vampire - Gordon
    
33. Interview with the Vampire - Rice
34. Orbiting the Giant Hairball - MacKenzie
35. The Dot - Reynolds
36. God Went to Beauty School - Rylant

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