![]() ![]() Ultimately, I was left with one of the simplest organisational methods of all for this piece. They were new when I discovered them, regardless of whether they had been discovered by other readers days, months, years or even decades before. I didn't think there was much point to ordering them by publication date either. Most of them I read in that space of true discovery, from the age of nine or so to maybe seventeen or eighteen. I couldn't order them chronologically from when I read them because I mostly couldn't remember when I did. All were and are important to me in many different ways and for many different reasons. All the books I wanted to mention I remembered because they were great books. The first dredging of the deep sludge of my mind made it clear I was also unable to organise the books in any meaningful way. First of all, I couldn't possibly fit in all the significant books and authors of my childhood. Then I junked what I'd written, because I didn't like how it was coming out. A bit more got done during the long flight home to Sydney. I did a little more in a hotel in Washington D.C. ![]() ![]() I began writing it in a hotel in Vancouver. There were several false starts to this list, which I originally wrote for the journal of the Children's Book Council, USA. BOOKS REMEMBERED Garth Nix's favourite books from childhood ![]()
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