Tuesday, October 23, 2007

10 Books.

On a social networking site, I was pinged to list my top 10 books. *The* 10 books that I believe everyone should read. Here they are, in no particular order:

Ali and Nino - Kurban Said
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
The End of Alice - A.M. Homes
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Where I'm Calling From - Raymond Carver
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
At Play in the Fields of the Lord - Peter Mathiessen
The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
A Fine Balance - Rohan Mistry
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle

What are your 10?
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prophet said...

Man! This shows the different planets we're on! I've only read TWO on your list.

No time to think about which one's I'd put - but I'll be glad to get back to your list next week. When my little personal hell is over. . . .

11:40 AM
Anonymous said...

Hmmm let's see. No particular order here either.
Pursuit - Ludovic Kennedy
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
Sky Masters - Dale Brown
Thunder of Erebus - Payne Harrison
The Complete Wargames Handbook - James Dunnigan
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Pegasus Bridge - Stephen Ambrose
Splinter of the Mind's Eye - Alan Dean Foster
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Jump Start Your Brain - Doug Hall

1:08 PM
Bette said...

Picking 10 requires more pondering than my brain can handle right now. But just one?

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole.

1:28 PM
Butterfly Wife said...

Geez, I have read exactly, um, NONE of those.

1-7. Harry Potter (except that I haven't gotten around to actually reading #7. Oops! I better get on that.)
8. To Kill a Mockingbird.
9. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
10. The Kite Runner.
11. The Odyssey.
12. The Old Man and the Sea.

I had to give a few extra for the smart-ass 1-7 remark.

7:14 PM
kimba said...

Wow - this is hard. Novels? Non-fiction? Classics? New?

Here's my stab at it:

- The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
-- The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
-- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
-- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
-- 1984 - George Orwell
-- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
-- By The Light of My Father's Smile - Alice Walker
-- The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michae Pollan
-- Naked - David Sedaris
-- Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson

Of course, if you ask me this again tomorrow, I could come up with 10 others I love just as much.

10:37 AM
prophet said...

OK - I posted this over at my place, but thought I'd paste it here, too. I got so many great new leads from all of you, perhaps there will be something new for you in my list (altho there are many old classics. . .)

--Anne of Green Gables
--Canopus in Argos (Doris Lessing)
--Razor's Edge (Somerset Maugham)

--Austen. . . . ALL of 'em! (or most of them, I'm not that crazy about Northanger Abbey): Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility. (just counting as one, though. . . )

--My Name is Asher Lev (Chaim Potok) (and 'Gift of Asher Lev' - corny titles, great books)
--The Little Prince
--Fugitive Pieces (Anne Michaels)
--Dune (Frank Herbert)
--The Flamenco Club (Sarah - Bird, I think it is)
And speaking of birds,
--Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott)

11:17 AM

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