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Not the best 15 books you’ve ever read, or even ones you’d recommend to others.  Just 15 books that have made their mark on you and will always stick with you, for whatever reason.  Supposed to be done in 15 minutes.

I admittedly have a short attention span and very rarely read heavy, weighty books. I unabashedly love chick-lit and sold most of a bookcase worth to Powell’s a couple of days ago. This is mostly a list of books that I couldn’t put down that weren’t complete and total beach brain candy.

…and go!

The Handmaid’s tale by Margret Atwood

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Harry Potter (It’s all one book) by J.K. Rowling

Love in a time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (I’m being honest here)

Night by Elie Wiesel

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

Howl and other poems by Allen Ginsberg

Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle

The Shining by Steven King

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert