The Ideal Bookshelf

I found an interesting website, "The Ideal Bookshelf," where an artist creates "inner portraiture," a painting of a row of books, chosen by the subject as memorable and influential for them.

That got me thinking.... Although I can't necessarily afford a painting, I can create a "sketch"--a list of some of my most unforgettable books.

Here they are:

• The Chronicles of Narnia (esp. The Last Battle) by C.S. Lewis
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The HAB Theory by Allan W. Eckert
• The White Plague by Frank Herbert
• The Kitchen Madonna by Rumer Godden
• Lost Horizon by James Hilton
• Walking On Water by Madeleine L'Engle
• Writing Essentials by Roy Peter Clark
• The Bible
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
• Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
• Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
• The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
• Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
• By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Lord of the Flies by William S. Golding
• The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (If you send me your email address, I will not publish or sell it, but I will tell you why this book is on the list.)
  

Short Stories by:

• James Thurber
• Edgar Allen Poe
• O. Henry

What's on your ideal bookshelf? Leave a comment and let me know.