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:

1. Ecclesiastes – unknown
2. Night – Elie Wiesel
3. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
4. 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)
5. The Beak of the Finch – Jonathan Weiner
6. The Neuroscience of Language – Friedemann Pulvermuller (close competitor – A Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics – Dirven and Verspoor eds.)
7. The Critical Meaning of the Bible – Raymond Brown
8. The Count of Monte Christo – Alexandre Dumas
9. The Lexical Approach: The State of ELT and a Way Forward – Michael Lewis
10. Introduction to Biblical Hebrew – Charles Isbell

Now that the task actually has me thinking about it, this was pretty much impossible.