15 books in 15 minutes

By now any Facebook users (which is pretty much everyone on the planet except Bill Gates, right?) have probably seen this. The challenge is to list fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you; the first fifteen you can recall within fifteen minutes.

This is my list - they're not necessarily the most profound books (check out #10!), but all of them made an indelible impression on me in some way the first time I read them, challenging my views, tugging at my heart, changing the way I looked at the world, or just making me laugh out loud no matter what curveballs life was throwing at me.

1. The Last Samurai by Helen De Witt
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
3. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
4. Gilgamesh (this is an ancient Mesopotamian epic poem, so there are various translations - I'm partial to Herbert Mason's Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative - it's not the most literal, but really captures the emotional essence of the story)
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
6. I Will Always Love You by Hans Wilhelm (saddest children's book EVER)
7. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
8. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
9. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
10. A Was Once An Apple Pie (A Nonsense Alphabet) by Edward Lear ("Pidy/Widy/Tidy/Pidy/Nice insidey/Apple pie")
11. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
12. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
13. anything by Roald Dahl...but especially James and the Giant Peach (I literally read my copy to pieces as a child)
14. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (can you tell I have a thing for childrens' books?)
15. The Jeeves Omnibus by P.G. Wodehouse (as a side note, I have to thank Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry for introducing me to the wonderful world of Jeeves and Wooster)

What's on your list?