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My ten most important books... not my favorite books, half of which aren't on here, but the books that changed something in me.

Organized in vague chronological order.

1. E. B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan
2. D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
3. J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
4. Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
5. Mercedes Lackey's Vanyel trilogy
6. Richard Ellmann's James Joyce
7. Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears, ed. Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow
8. Watsuki Nobuhiro's Rurouni Kenshin
9. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time
10. Stephen Owen's Anthology of Chinese Literature

( Whys )

Not included here are books that were important but I can't remember -- the first book I didn't finish. The first book (or article) of criticism that I disagreed with and figured out that it was ok to disagree completely, even if the author was published and I wasn't. The first book that made me realize non-fiction was interesting and that things like scholarship and citations and style mattered as much in non-fiction as they did in fiction. The first book that I realized was being written with an agenda in mind.

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