Comments on: I mean, if Taylor Swift likes it….

By: Teri

Teri — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:39:55 +0000

Styron's SOPHIE'S CHOICE, Atwood's CAT'S EYE, Stegner's ANGLE OF REPOSE, Morrison's BELOVED, Smiley's A THOUSAND ACRES.

Ahhhhhh...

By: DGLM

DGLM — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:26:59 +0000

Monica- I think the word "bookprint" was one of my favorite parts about this. Like fingerprint, everyone's is similar in basic form, but completely different and individual in every other way.

I hadn't even considered that reading about all of these books that have affected everyone so wholly would mean that I have to now make a list of "RACHEL YOU MUST READ THESE" books...

And I love that the lists are so diverse within each other. There's "classics," kid's books and books that are just...good. In a way that can't be explained.

By: Suzi McGowen

Suzi McGowen — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 03:01:34 +0000

I would have to say Chronicles of Narnia and Charlotte's Web. Any of the realm of books that mixed every day life with the sudden discovery of something magical and unexpected, but those two titles are the one that leap to mind.

By: Clix

Clix — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:33:41 +0000

oh bother… it frustrates me that for the People You Know who are listed, it seems it won't let you see WHY they chose those books… at least I can't find that on the page. For regular folks it seems to show up just fine.

http://youarewhatyouread.scholastic.com/adults/people/show/users/5013

By: MCPlanck

MCPlanck — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:51:25 +0000

Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman - Richard Feynman

For whom the bell tolls - Hemingway

Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond

The Corruption of Reality: A Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis, and Psychopathology - John F. Schumaker

Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

By: Jennifer Pickrell

Jennifer Pickrell — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:05:41 +0000

I was also a little too fascinated by what famous people were reading and it cracked me up that Daniel Radcliffe and I are "bonded" over sharing a favorite book (The Old Man and the Sea).

Ah...The Stranger, I'd forgotten about that one. If I could pick 10 books, it'd probably be on that list.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:31:10 +0000

So hard to pick 5!!! When I saw Monica mention The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I said, "Yes, yes, that's one!" Then I saw Gilbert mention Jean-Paul Sartre and I said, "Oh yes, I must put his 3 book series about Les chemins de la liberté: 1. L'Âge de Raison 2. Le Sursis 3. La Mort dans l'Âme and then.....so, so hard!

So , here my list : all books that I've read and reread over the years!

Dancing Wu Li Masters - Gary Zukav
Les Autres Vies et la Reincarnation - Bernard- Duboy
Parallel Universes - Fred Alan Wolf
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
Out On A Limb - Shirley MacLaine

By: KO

KO — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:32:18 +0000

ummm, just 5 is hard. One is an old favorite, one is a book I just read this year. Except for the new book, these are books I've read over and over again. I can't do that unless I adore a book. A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Shadow of the Wind, Persuasion, Charleston, and The Sky is Everywhere

By: Gilbert J. Avila

Gilbert J. Avila — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 04:48:20 +0000

When I was nine I read H.P. Lovecraft's "Cry Horror" and Sarte's "Intimacy," which explains a lot…

By: TLH

TLH — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:54:36 +0000

Wow, what a cool idea. Go Scholastic!

I would have to say 1) The Witching Hour by Anne Rice, 2) Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker, 3) Gulliver's Travels, 4) The Wizard of Oz, 5) The Stranger by Albert Camus.

...That list makes me seem really, really weird... I might need to blog on this oddity next week.

~Tara