Why don’t you just stop a sec and listen?

From gwynnega, a meme: Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. I do not know if one is supposed to, but I have not limited “books” to “novels.”

1. Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (1968)

2. Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, Norse Gods and Giants (1967)

3. Catullus, 116 carmina (first century BCE)

4. Groff Conklin (ed.), 12 Great Classics of Science Fiction (1963)

5. Gerald Durrell, The Amateur Naturalist (1982)

6. T.S. Eliot, Inventions of the March Hare (1996)

7. Robert Graves, I, Claudius (1934)

8. Holling C. Holling, Seabird (1948)

9. Robinson Jeffers, Selected Poems (1963)

10. Caitlín R. Kiernan, Tales of Pain and Wonder (2000)

11. Ursula K. Le Guin, Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987)

12. Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned (1988)

13. Gregory Nagy, Greek Mythology and Poetics (1990)

14. Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo (1966)

15. Peter Shaffer, The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964)

. . . Those were totally not the first fifteen books I was expecting my memory to come up with. I think the moral is that I have way too many books to choose from.