MH's Books That Have Stayed With Me

This has definitely been the most difficult list I have compiled for List Challenge. It was so challenging to narrow down from a lifetime of reading to just 20 books. My criteria was to include books that made me laugh or cry or think, and which changed my view on the world. I pained me to exclude such favorites as Leaves of Grass, Of Mice and Men, The French Lieutenant's Woman, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Call Me By Your Name, Zorba the Greek, Pride and Prejudice, and so many others.