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The latest viral Facebook “tag, you’re it” list is too much for me to resist: ten books that have stayed with you…

I’m deliberately not including books by people I know, (either personally or on Facebook), but that’s the only rule I’m minding.

I’ll probably have some regrets because I didn’t think too long or too hard about the following books (but then, neither did the following reviewers):

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame (1908)

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

CANNERY ROW by John Steinbeck (1945)

FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)

I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson (1954)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkein (1955)

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee (1960)

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST by Ken Kesey (1962)

JAWS by Peter Benchley (1974)

THE STAND by Stephen King (1978)

These are not “essential” books, “best” books, or “must-read” books … they’re just books that have stayed with me, so to speak. And they may have stayed with the aforementioned reviewers, too. But not in the cool way.

And if you can’t look away from bad reviews of classic creations, click here.

Tagging the following to keep the beach ball in the air: T. Fox Dunham, Jessica McHugh, Lori Michelle, C. Bryan Brown, David Nell, Michael Matula, Jay Wilburn, Cynthia Pelayo, W.D. Gagliani, and J. Michael Major.

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