Classics

[qos]

Which "classics" have you read that actually made a strong impression on you, and/or had a significant influence on you? Which do you keep in your library because you truly want to have them at your fingertips to read -- or at least dip into -- again and again?


ETA: Lists are great, folks -- but what I'm really interested in is why and/or how these books touched you in such an important way.

Comments

[qos.livejournal.com]

I like your list!

I love Leaves of Grass for exactly the same reasons.

Need to read To Kill a Mockingbird again. It's on my shelves, but it's been many years since I've read it.

Will put Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and A World Between on my list. I loved Spinrad's Child of Fortune (it's still on my shelves) and enjoyed and was disturbed by The Void Captain's Tale.

[rocket-jockey.livejournal.com]

When you read A World Between keep in mind it was meant to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek-satirical, so the extremists are *really* extreme.