Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead have definitely helped shape my world for the past ~14 years. I no longer have either of my original copies - I buy one or two new copies every year and give them out to people who I think should read them.

Les Miserables. My copy was given to me by my best friend's father when I was twelve. I really looked up to him, and I connected with him on a more literary level than he and his own daughter did. He was a strong father figure to me amidst my parents' divorce and I like to think that I was the daughter he never had. The story itself is important to me, as is the copy I have.

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. The copy that I have is a signed copy by Palahniuk, and although it is secondhand and autographed to someone else, it was sought after and hunted down for me and I love it.

Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis. My copy is falling apart and literally taped together from being read so many times.

My original copy of The Fellowship of the Ring. When I first got this book when I was ten, it had to be beneath my pillow at night or I couldn't sleep.

My pop-up copy of Alice in Wonderland. This is my favorite Alice copy and one of my favorite books in my library. I happened upon it purely by chance in an antique-y boutique store where it was just resting on a chair as if someone put it down and meant to come back for it. I can't wait to read it to my children some day.

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac hardcover comic collection. yooooooooooooooouth

A lot of my books are important to me for sentimental reasons.