Books I Consumed, Which In Turn Consumed Me

Day 106 - I am a librarian by Flickr user cindiann. Click image to view on Flickr.
Day 106 - I am a librarian by Flickr user cindiann. Click image to view on Flickr.

A chronological list.

1987 | Under Plum Lake by Lionel Davidson

1987 | The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer

1988 | Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

1988 | The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

1989 | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

1989 | The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) by Ellen Raskin (I loved those typographic illustrations.)

1989 | The BFG by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake

1992 | Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

1993 | The Alanna Quartet by Tamora Pierce

Genetics Exhibit, San Jose Tech by Flickr user Thomas Hawk. Click image to view on Flickr.
Genetics Exhibit, San Jose Tech by Flickr user Thomas Hawk. Click image to view on Flickr.

1994 | Xanadu volumes I and III edited by Jane Yolen (Why are these book impossible to find? Volume II has apparently never even been published. It's the best short fantasy I have ever read. Somebody help.)

1995 | Nebula and Hugo Awards winners

1996 | Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace

1997 | Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (This is the best cover design I've seen for this book.)

1998 | Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

1998 | Everything I could find by Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. Thank you, Zimmerman Library.

2000 | Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

2001 | Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, and The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson 2004-06 | The Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of The World) by Neal Stephenson

Right Now: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling, read by Jim Dale

What books consume you?

This post is part of NaBloPoMo for July 2009.