Ten Books Meme

List ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard – they don’t have to be “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. .

My brain, it hurts.  So I've rummaged around and come up with ten books, in no particular order and, because I seem incapable of doing anything exactly as instructed, I've taken liberties with the 'books' bit, although there are ten items:

1. Enid Blyton's Malory Towers and St Clare's books.  A staple of my childhood.


2. Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School series.  The natural follow on.


3. The Stranger/The Plague, by Albert Camus.  I did A-level French and my impressionable teenage mind was sucked in by Camus.


4. Germinal by Emile Zola.  Did I mention A-level French, which is where I first encountered Zola.


5. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.  I remain a committed Yorkist.


6. Jane Austen.  None of her stories in particular, but her descriptions of places.


7. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens.


8. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.


9. Various, mostly historical, crime novels.  No one in particular stands out, but the amount of pleasure they've given me deserves to be recognised.


10. The Hound of the Baskervilles.  My favourite of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, although many others could be included too.