Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Top Books I'd Hand to Someone Who Doesn't Like to Read


The Broke and Bookish came up with this Top Ten Tuesday meme.  Each week they come up with a different list and this week's list is The Top Ten Books I'd Hand to Someone Who Doesn't Like to Read.

I know that we're supposed to pick 10 books, but I'm having the hardest time cutting my list. So, I've got a baker's dozen of books to recommend. Here's my list of the Top Books I'd Hand to Someone Who Doesn't Like to Read:

  1. Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
  2. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  3. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - I started out marking my favorite passages and soon had much of the book marked up. : )
  4. Slaughter House V  by Kurt Vonnegut
  5. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
  6. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (or anything else by Dickens)
  7. Dune by Frank Herbert
  8. The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde - a play that I can read aloud in one sitting
  9. Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini -  a book that I'd discovered through my grandfather
  10. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  11. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  12. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
  13. Al Capone Shines My Shoes & Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Colchenko
Which books would you share?  

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