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Moira's 100 Formative Books

A list of the most formative books I can remember, from childhood up until nearly college (17). A lot of single books are standing in for oeuvres, I tried to remember which books I'd read over and over, and which graved the deepest impressions. I'm sure I've forgotten ten for every volume here.
I loved that people were finding the original covers but if I did that 100 times I'd just never finish, so. :-/
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Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
1
Charlotte Brontë
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Watership Down
2
Richard Adams
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (Robin McKinley)
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
3
Robin McKinley
The Juvenilia of Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte (Jane Austen & Charlotte Bronte)
The Juvenilia of Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
4
Jane Austen & Charlotte Bronte
Diving Into the Wreck (Adrienne Rich)
Diving Into the Wreck
5
Adrienne Rich
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
6
Emily Brontë
Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats
Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats
7
The Sonnets to Orpheus
The Sonnets to Orpheus
8
A Fine and Private Place
A Fine and Private Place
9
The Long Winter (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
The Long Winter
10
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
11
Charles Dickens
Ariel (Sylvia Plath)
Ariel
12
Sylvia Plath
The Language of the Night (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Language of the Night
13
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Tombs of Atuan (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Tombs of Atuan
14
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wind's Twelve Quarters (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
15
Ursula K. Le Guin
Orsinian Tales (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Orsinian Tales
16
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'engle)
A Wrinkle in Time
17
Madeleine L'engle
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
18
Douglas Adams
The Stainless Steel Rat
The Stainless Steel Rat
19
Again, Dangerous Visions (Harlan Ellison)
Again, Dangerous Visions
20
Harlan Ellison
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
21
Louisa May Alcott
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths (Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire)
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
22
Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
23
C.S. Lewis
Till We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)
Till We Have Faces
24
C.S. Lewis
The Journals of Sylvia Plath (Ted Hughes and Frances McCullough, Eds.)
The Journals of Sylvia Plath
25
Ted Hughes and Frances McCullough, Eds.
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
26
Sylvia Plath
Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (Sylvia Plath)
Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963
27
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
28
Anne Sexton: A Biography (Diane Wood Middlebrook)
Anne Sexton: A Biography
29
Diane Wood Middlebrook
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
30
I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
I, Claudius
31
Robert Graves
The Mask of Apollo (Mary Renault)
The Mask of Apollo
32
Mary Renault
The Best of Cordwainer Smith (Cordwainer Smith)
The Best of Cordwainer Smith
33
Cordwainer Smith
Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tender Is the Night
34
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
35
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe)
Look Homeward, Angel
36
Thomas Wolfe
The Devils
The Devils
37
Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Notes From Underground
38
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
39
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Daughter of Time (Josephine Tey)
The Daughter of Time
40
Josephine Tey
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