Books Meme: Total, Last, Meaningful

This book-related meme has been going around for years. (See also: here, here & here.) What are your answers?  The Post Pub tags all readers that stop by. Leave a link to your response in the comments.

Here's the latest iteration of the meme, with the Pub Editor's responses:

Total number of books I own

At least 400, probably more in storage, if you count college textbooks sitting in milk crates in an attic.

Last book I read

Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich

Last book I bought

The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri

Five books that have meaning to me:

1. The World According to Garp, by John Irving - because it's set in New England, where I'm from, and I've loved it since I was 17
2. Working Men, by Michael Dorris - because I adore his writing; and because I met him and his wife Louise Erdrich at a special invite-only tea for young writers when I was a freshman at Dartmouth
3. Bastard Out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison - because it's the first book whose ending left me gasping with sympathy for the characters and for the author
4. Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy - because it's the second book whose ending left me gasping
5. The Father, by Sharon Olds - just because