This is my version of the meme going around on Facebook (not that anyone asked) to name 10 books that have stuck with you without thinking too much about it:
- Ecclesiastes – unknown
- Night – Elie Wiesel
- The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Introduction to Christianity – Joseph Ratzinger (or Truth Tolerance and the World Religions, both of which I read around the same time and had a significant effect on me)
- The Beak of the Finch – Jonathan Weiner
- The Neuroscience of Language – Friedemann Pulvermuller (close competitor – A Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics – Dirven and Verspoor eds.)
- The Critical Meaning of the Bible – Raymond Brown
- The Count of Monte Christo – Alexandre Dumas
- The Lexical Approach: The State of ELT and a Way Forward – Michael Lewis
- Introduction to Biblical Hebrew – Charles Isbell
Now that the task actually has me thinking about it, this was pretty much impossible.