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Thirteen books I couldn't live without, in no particular order except for #1.
[The top ten books I couldn't live without were requested here, but I had to make it 13 and wish it could have been a top 20!!]
1. The Bible
We weren't supposed to count this unless we'd read it. I've read all except parts of Isaiah and Jeremiah--so I'm gonna count it!
2. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
This was read to my class by my 2nd grade teacher, Miss French. She read several goodies that year--who can forget their "first loves"?
3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
I always identified with Jo.
4. Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was another book read by Miss French. I went on to read the entire series and have probably read it at least 5 or 6 times.
5. The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
I love all the books I've read by C.S. Lewis. If I only had just his books and the Bible on a desert island, I'd be happy.
6. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
7. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
8. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Beautiful writing, lessons to be learned, and I love the Russian authors!
9. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
See #8.
10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Excellent book on the nature of guilt.
11. Complete works of Shakespeare
It's Shakespeare--need I say more? I think his complete works were being counted as only one by others.
12. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A masterpiece.
13. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Heartrending.
What are the top 10 books you could not live without?
1 comments Posted by 1morechapter at 3/21/2007 02:24:00 PMKailani's Written World wants to compile a Bloggers' Top Ten List of books we could not live without. She took her idea from the Guardian poll below, which also shows the results of 2000 respondents. I will be posting my top thirteen in my "Thursday Thirteen" post tonight or tomorrow. Consider participating by going to Kailani's Written World.
The Guardian conducted a poll to mark World Book Day, which was on March 1 in the UK. 2,000 people took part and were asked to name the 10 titles they could not live without. The top 100 results were:
1 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen [in my top 20]
2 The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien [in my top 25]
3 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte [in my top 20]
4 Harry Potter series JK Rowling [I haven't read ANY of the Harry Potter series yet]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee [in my top 13]
6 The Bible [My #1 book--and yes, I've read all but parts of Isaiah and Jeremiah]
7 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte [in my top 30]
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell [I read this in 1984 in high school. It would probably fall in a top 30 for me]
9 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman [Have not read]
10 Great Expectations Charles Dickens [Probably in a top 30]
11 Little Women Louisa M Alcott [in my top 13]
12 Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy [Have not read--slated for later this year, though]
13 Catch-22 Joseph Heller [Have not read]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare William Shakespeare [in my top 13]
15 Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier [Have not read]
16 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien [in my top 30]
17 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks [Never heard of it]
18 Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger [Yuck!]
19 The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger [I liked this book, but nowhere near my top 100]
20 Middlemarch George Eliot [Have not read]
21 Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell [Have not read]
22 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald [I think this is an important book, but I'm not sure where I'd place it]
23 Bleak House Charles Dickens [Have not read]
24 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy [Have not read--slated for 2008]
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams [Have not read]
26 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh [Have not read]
27 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky [in my top 13]
28 Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck [in my top 30]
29 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll [Have not read]
30 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame [Have not read]
31 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy [in my top 13]
32 David Copperfield Charles Dickens [Have not read]
33 Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis [in my top 13]
34 Emma Jane Austen [Have not read--loved the movies]
35 Persuasion Jane Austen [in my top 20]
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis [in my top 13, but it's part of #33]
37 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini [Have not read--slated for later this year]
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières [Have not read]
39 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden [Have not read]
40 Winnie the Pooh AA Milne [in my top 30]
41 Animal Farm George Orwell [in my top 20]
42 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown [Have not read]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez [I did not like this one]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving [Have not read]
45 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins [Enjoyed this one]
46 Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery [Have not read]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy [Have not read]
48 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood [Have not read--slated for later this year]
49 Lord of the Flies William Golding [in my top 30]
50 Atonement Ian McEwan [I didin't like this one]
51 Life of Pi Yann Martel [Have not read--slated for later this year]
52 Dune Frank Herbert [Have not read]
53 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons [Never heard of it]
54 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen [Have not read--loved the movie!]
55 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth [Never heard of it]
56 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon [I did not like this book]
57 A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens [Have not read]
58 Brave New World Aldous Huxley [Have not read]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon [Have not read--slated for later this year]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Have not read]
61 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck [not sure where I'd place this one]
62 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov [Have not read]
63 The Secret History Donna Tartt [Have not read]
64 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold [Have not read]
65 Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas [Have not read]
66 On The Road Jack Kerouac [Have not read]
67 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy ([Have not read]
68 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding [Have not read--liked the movie]
69 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie [Have not read]
70 Moby Dick Herman Melville [Have not read]
71 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens [Have not read]
72 Dracula Bram Stoker [Have not read]
73 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett [Have not read--loved the movie!]
74 Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson [Never heard of it]
75 Ulysses James Joyce [Have not read]
76 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath [Have not read]
77 Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome [Have not read]
78 Germinal Emile Zola [Have not read--loved the movie with Gerard Depardieu]
79 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray [Have not read--liked the movie]
80 Possession AS Byatt [Have not read--slated for later this year]
81 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens [Good book, not sure where I'd place it, though]
82 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell [Have not read]
83 The Color Purple Alice Walker [Have not read]
84 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro [Have not read--LOVED the movie!]
85 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert [in my top 20]
86 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry [Never heard of it]
87 Charlotte's Web EB White [in my top 13]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom [Have not read]
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Have not read]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton [Never heard of it]
91 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad [Excellent writing--not sure where I'd place it on my list]
92 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery [Have not read]
93 The Wasp Factory Iain Banks [Never heard of it]
94 Watership Down Richard Adams [Have not read--maybe next year?]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole [Have not read]
96 A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute [Never heard of it]
97 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas [Have not read--want to someday]
98 Hamlet William Shakespeare [in my top 13 as the Complete Works]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl [Loved this as a kid!!]
100 Les Misérables Victor Hugo [Have not read--definitely want to someday]
You can see the article by clicking here.
I got this meme from a post on framed's blog. The instructions are this: Look at the list of books below. Highlight in red the ones you’ve read, highlight in green the ones you might read, leave the ones you won’t read in black, italicize the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around the ones you’ve never even heard of.
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audry Niffenegger
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1984 by George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaba by J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
(Crytonomicon by Neal Stephenson)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
(Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman )
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Dune by Frank Herbert
The History of Love by Nichole Krauss
