December Posting Meme: Influential Reads

amindamazed  asked: [Do you have any] particularly memorable or influential reads?

I must admit, I laughed. So much of my identity is wrapped up in books -- in reading, and rereading, and analyzing, and daydreaming, and writing about, and writing in conversation with -- that the list of "memorable or influential" could easily be triple digits. Still, I can't resist a book-related prompt, so here are the books that I think helped form core parts of who I am.

( Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney )

( Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery )

( Three Novels by Louisa May Alcott )

( Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card )

( Various Darkover Novels, Marion Zimmer Bradley (TW: child sexual assault, pedophilia) )

( A Theory of Shopping, Daniel Miller )

( Kushiel's Legacy, Jacqueline Carey )