I decided to start out with the much dreaded question that big readers get: “What’s your Top 10 books of all time?” How to begin to answer that, especially off the top of your head. Yet as a reader, I love hearing people’s answers. One, because it gives you a sense of what kind of reader they are and two, you may get great recommendations out of it, assuming you do not share similar tastes.
Recently a friend of mine asked me for my Top 10 and after combing my goodreads.com list I came up with the following 10 (err…11) and they are listed in no particular order:
1 – Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
2 – The Autobiography of Henry the VIII, Margaret George
3 – Here Be Dragons, Falls the Shadow & The Reckoning, Sharon Kay Penman
4 – The Alienist, Caleb Carr
5 – In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
6 – The Eight, Katherine Neville
7 – The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
8 – Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
9 – A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
10 – Trinity, Leon Uris
11 – The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
I feel this list encompasses all my reading passions: historical fiction, a good mystery, great classic literature and the occasional laugh.
Post in the Comments:
You knew this was coming…What’s your Top 10 or 5 or just Top 1 (if you can narrow it down that much)?
and/or
Have you read any of the books on my Top 10 (err…11) and if so would they end up in your Top 10?
[...] I am currently working on two books – one that I’m really enjoying and one that is just OK – the reviews for them should come in the next two weeks. In the meantime I thought I would review of my Top 10 (er….11) books! [...]
I just found your blog through Jenna’s — really love this book list! I’m a big reader, too, and absolutely adore Bill Bryson. He inspires and motivates me.