Powell's Books - Used, New, and Out of Print

Powell's Books - Used, New, and Out of Print: "To celebrate ten years of online bookselling, we are asking our readers: What was your most memorable reading experience of the last ten years? Submit an essay and Powells.com will donate one dollar to Reading Is Fundamental, the nation's largest nonprofit children's literacy organization. The author of the best essay will win $1,000 in books. Ten runners-up will receive $100 in books."

I am a voracious reader--reading soup can labels if that is all I have--so it is an interesting question to figure out what book has provided my most memorable reading experience of the last 20 years. Are you going to try too?