I’ve been challenged by someone on Facebook to identify “10 books that have stayed with you in some way.” Instructions: Don’t take more than a few minutes, and do not think too hard. They do not have to be the ‘right’ books or great works of literature, just ones that have affected you in some way. Here goes:

1. Magic Doors – by John Pearson
2. Also Sprach Zarathustra – by Friedrich Nietzsche
3. An American Tragedy – by Theodore Dreiser
4. Pillars of the Earth – by Ken Follett
5. The Brothers Karamazov – by Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
7. Jeder Stirbt für Sich Allein – Hans Fallada
8. Earth Abides – by George R. Stewart
9. The Stand – by Stephen King
10. Hawaii – by James Michener