Top Ten Books of All Time by Roseann
10. Any of the Amelia Peobody adventures in Egypt (Michaels)
9. Death & the Penguin (Kurkov)
8. Charlotte's Web (White)
7. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
6. Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
5. Hugo Cabret (Selznick)
4. Glass Palace (Ghosh)
3. The Piano Tuner (Mason)
2. Hamlet, tied with King Lear (Shakespeare)
1. Atlas Shrugged (Rand)
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Off the top of my head, here are my picks:
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (Salinger)
BRAVE NEW WORLD (Huxley)
GO ASK ALICE (Anonymous)
SPEAK (Anderson)
THE BOOK THIEF (Zusak)
THE LOVELY BONES (Sebold)
NINETEEN MINUTES (Picoult)
NIGHT (Wiesel)
THE GIVER (Lowry)
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Austen)
I got it down to just ten books, but there was no way I could decide on an order!
-Erin Schirota, Bronxville
Book Thief (Zusak)
East of Eden (Steinbeck)
Narcissus & Goldmund (Hesse)
A Midnight Clear (William Wharton)
World According to Garp (Irving)
The Things They Carried (O'Brien)
Ironman (Crutcher)
100 Years of Solitude (Marquez)
The Whistling Season (Doig)
Skellig (Almond)
I thought I would try for 1/2 YA 1/2 adult, but when i look at these, all of them would work for teens. hmmm, did i leave off John Fowles???
I can't pick ten books. Usually I go by authors and if you were to add their individual books it would be more than 10. I'll just say Laurell K. Hamilton, Anne Rice, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I'm sure I'll think of more after I post this.
In no particular order....
1. Memoirs of a Geisha
2. The Christmas Kitten by Ruth Carroll (1971)
3. Little Women
4. My Brother Martin
5. Charlotte's Web
6. Sense and Sensibility
7. Roget's Thesaurus
8. Finding Forrester
9. Tuesdays With Morrie
10. A Tree that Grows in Brooklyn
Not really a top ten, more like a list of important books from specific times in my life:
Charlotte's Web
The Secret Garden
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Grapes of Wrath
Little Women
Watership Down
The Diviners
She's Come Undone
Angela's Ashes
The Book Thief
I Loved everyone's lists, and see a few books I will be adding to my 'To Read" list on Goodreads.com!
Thanks everyone!
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