Top 10 book list poll!

[Malanee]

We haven't done this in a while, has your top ten changed?

Here's my list, with a list of other good books and non-fictions:


Top 10
1. Ender’s Game (series) – Orson Scott Card
2. The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
3. A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel
4. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
6. Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
7. Time Travelers Wife -Audrey Niffenegger
8. Watership Down -Richard Adams
9. Animal Farm - George Orwell
10. Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk

Here are some other really good books:
1. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
2. Life of Pi
3. The Red Tent
4. Water for Elephants
5. Kite Runner
6. Labyrinth
7. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
8. This is not Chic Lit
9. Women of Genesis Series – Orson Scott Card
10. Mistress of Spices
11. Speed of Dark
12. Three Junes
13. The Painted Drum
14. The Long Walk - Stephen King

Here are some non-fiction books I really like:
1. A Woman’s Worth – Marianne Williamson
2. Buddhism Plain and Simple
3. Succulent, Wild, Woman – Sarks
4. Molecules of Emotion
5. Practicing the Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
6. What Should I do with my Life?

[Crystal Meth]

This is in no particular order, right? I can pick 10, but I cannot rank them.

1. The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
2. In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4. Fall on your Knees - Ann-Marie Macdonald
5. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (most definitely counts as ONE book!)
6. A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews
7. The Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
8. Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery (really, anything she wrote, but unlike Shakespeare, they have NOT all been bound in one book. )
*struggling at this point, only two to go*
9. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
*erm... um... oh gosh*
10. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (hi silvia!)



Oh crap... runner-up: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

[Sílvia]

9. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
*erm... um... oh gosh*
10. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (hi silvia!)

I included High Fidelity in my quote because I didn't like it either.

[Crystal Meth]

I enjoy that we have such different tastes. It's very sportsmanly.

Now, make your own list so I can point out the ones I don't like.

[Sílvia]

Ok, here's from the last three years or so (no order of preference):

1. Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
2. What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
3. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
5. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri (probably one of two books that we both liked - the other one is Pride and Prejudice)
6. Mischiefs of the Bad Girl - Mario Vargas Llosa (by far my favorite book in the last 5 years or so)
7. Oracle Night - Paul Auster
8. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
9. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
10. Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

[Crystal Meth]

Poisonwood Bible? Ew.

Let's hold out hope that I like Time Traveller's Wife. It's on my TBR list!