15 in 15

So here it is, Friday morning already. Just finished listening to a track by Ana Popovic, the Serbian blues guitarist, and next up thanks to the shuffle function (one of the greatest interventions ever, by the way) is Amy Winehouse.

Hardly a logical segue from bluesy women to 15 in 15, but here goes. A friend of mine asked me on Facebook to come up with a list of "fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you." The challenge: Make it "the first fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes."

(Another blues musician, Susan Tedeschi, just came on...)

Anyway, I thought it was a great exercise, worthy of repeating here in hopes that some (any?) of Rough and Rede's followers might share their list.

Here's mine:

The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Diaz
The Namesake -- Jhumpa Lahiri
The Memory Keeper's Daughter -- Kim Edwards
Gilead -- Marilynne Robinson
A Thousand Acres -- Jane Smiley
Breathing Lessons -- Anne Tyler
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian -- Marina Lewycka
The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns -- Khaled Hosseini
When We Were The Mulvaneys -- Joyce Carol Oates
Middlesex -- Jeffrey Eugenides
The Double -- Jose Saramago
Song of Solomon -- Toni Morrison
After This -- Alice McDermott
Hunger of Memory -- Richard Rodriguez

And here's Lakshmi's. After all, she's the one who got this started.

P.G. Wodehouse books
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Rebecca
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
The New Earth
Ageless Body Timeless Mind
The Flame Trees of Thika
The River
A House for Mr. Biswas
The Mistress of Spices
The God of Small Things
The Autobiography of a Yogi
White Teeth
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure

So...what's on your list? Heck, I'd be happy seeing 5 in 5!