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1annekiwi
I have to get my lists together and then I'll start.
1. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
2. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
3. Nineteen-Eighty-four - George Orwell
4. The Hobbitt - J. R. R. Tolkien
5. The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien
6. The Once and Future King - T. H. White
7. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
8. The Two-Minute Rule - Robert Crais
9. Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales - Lucy Cousins
10. Holes - Louis Sachar
Alternates List
1. Cannery Row by Steinbeck
2. The Two Towers by Tolkien
3. The Return of the King by Tolkien
4. Durinda's Dangers by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
5. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
6. Gilgamesh the King by Robert Silverberg
7. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
8. Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. Saint of Auschwitz: the story of Maximilian Kolbe by Diana Dewar
1. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
2. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
3. Nineteen-Eighty-four - George Orwell
4. The Hobbitt - J. R. R. Tolkien
5. The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien
6. The Once and Future King - T. H. White
7. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
8. The Two-Minute Rule - Robert Crais
10. Holes - Louis Sachar
Alternates List
1. Cannery Row by Steinbeck
2. The Two Towers by Tolkien
3. The Return of the King by Tolkien
4. Durinda's Dangers by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
5. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
6. Gilgamesh the King by Robert Silverberg
7. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
8. Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. Saint of Auschwitz: the story of Maximilian Kolbe by Diana Dewar
2artturnerjr
Looking forward to seeing them, annekiwi.
3billiejean
You have some great choices on your first list.
4Cecrow
Proud of myself; I've read 5/10! :) I'll get to Great Expectations eventually, and I'll read at least the first part of T.H. White's some day (The Sword in the Stone - rest of it sounds a bit depressing, but you can let me know.) Holes is one I keep seeing again and again, eventually the curiosity's going to get to me.
5artturnerjr
>1 annekiwi:
Looks a lot like a list of my favorite books, annewiki. I think you're gonna have a great reading year. :)
Looks a lot like a list of my favorite books, annewiki. I think you're gonna have a great reading year. :)
6annekiwi
I can't in good conscience read this as one of my TBR reads. I obviously put it on the list for Gman. In fact, it's about at Gman's reading level. I will read it to him and remove it from the list, but I am going with Cannery Row as #9 on my list.
7Cecrow
lol - a fit of conscience is admirable! I'm in the same boat; I expect I'll read several more good books to my son this year and I faced the same temptation, but I'm not going to count those. Even if last year they included the likes of Peter Pan, The Secret Garden, Swallows and Amazons, etc.
