100 Book Challenge Meme

[delphi]

Throwing my list in for the 100 Books Challenge meme:

Delphi's Formative Reading

As some other folks have noted on theirs, this isn't a rec list or endorsement of any of the authors or content, just a look back at books that shaped me personally or creatively—ones that made me think about myself or the world in different ways, ones that made me realize the possibilities of writing, and ones I just glommed onto. There's one or two there that I only read about ten years back, but for the most part these are books from my childhood, teens, and twenties. I limited authors to one book, going with the first one of theirs that made a deep impression.

If you give it a go, let me know how many you've read!

(I started by just trying to think of a hundred books I re-read in my youth, without factoring in any importance, but once the list came together, I looked it over and was like: Yeah...that tracks.)

Comments

[corvidology]

Only 14 and we mostly overlap on the 'classics' a term I very much dislike but there you go!

Unlike a lot of my fandom friends, I've never been particularly keen on science-fiction or fantasy which is causing my numbers in general to be low... I am, however, amused that we overlap on Adrian Mole. ;D

[delphi]

It's funny, when I was younger, I was out of step with my fandom friends because I was largely an SFF reader in circles that favoured literary classics and contemporary fiction, and nowadays I rarely read SFF outside of comics and feel out of step with the resurgence SFF is having in popular literature.

I've been surprised by how many folks I've overlapped with on Adrian Mole! I read it growing up in Canada, and I had no idea at the time how much better known it was in the UK. I just remember it being one of my first introductions to an unreliable narrator and to such sustained characterful first-person.

[corvidology]

I mostly read literary classics from all countries not just the English language canon, contemporary fiction, mysteries and non-fiction but not auto/biographies.

Mysteries are my main interest in TV and films as well.

[delphi]

I do love a good mystery! If I could have put 101 on the list, I think one of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels would have made it on. Very relevant to my interests when it comes to shippy relationships, and a revelation when it comes to both the style and plot mechanics of first-person narration.

[corvidology]

I wrote one of my theses on homoeroticism in American hard boiled mysteries. ;D

[delphi]

No kidding! I would read the heck out of that .