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Bookshelf Top Ten

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This idea comes from Kath’s [Insert Suitably Snappy Title Here] blog. She’s created a top-ten list of books on her shelves. I thought it would be fun to scan my shelves and make my own.

Caroline’s Top Ten (in no particular order):

1.  Possession — AS Byatt
2.  Katherine — Anya Seton
3.  What’s Bred in the Bone — Robertson Davies
4.  The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
5.  Angle of Repose — Wallace Stegner
6.  The Selected Journals of Lucy Maude Montgomery, volumes 1-5 (I’m cheating here, I know)
7.  Shadow of the Almighty — Elisabeth Elliot
8.  The Power of One — Bryce Courtenay
9.  Into Thin Air — Jon Krakauer
10. The Phatom Tollbooth — Norton Juster

Have you read any of these? Any on my list on your list, too? Add your list in the comments or make this post a link to your own.

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  1. Lisa and Laura says

    November 17, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    We must have completely different taste! I haven’t read any of these. I’ll have to check them out!

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  2. MeganRebekah says

    November 17, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    I haven’t read too many of these. And I feel kind of dumb because The Power of One is one of my favorite movies (among many of course, since like books I have many favorite movies) and I never knew it was a book!
    Have you seen the movie too? How do they compare?

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  3. Southern Princess says

    November 17, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    Count of Monte Cristo! A classic & favorite of mine… this is a great idea. I may have to do the same on my blog. Though I have not read but one of yours, you definitely made me add to my TBR (to be read) list!!

    Great post!

    http://princesscourtneysbarr.blogspot.com

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  4. Natalie says

    November 17, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    This post made me realize I don’t own a lot of my favorite books! This problem needs to be rectified.

    I think the only book on your list I’ve read is The Count of Monte Cristo–I’ll have to add some of the others to my list.

    I do own everything Jane Austen, the Bronte Sisters, Shakespeare and Charles Dickens wrote and I love all of them. I think I need to buy more books!

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  5. Heidi Willis says

    November 17, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    Into Thin Air would be on my top ten too!

    Last summer I gave my son my copy of Phantom Tollbooth from when I was a kid and he loved it. I think that has to be the height of creativity!

    I have a first edition of Shadow of the Almighty, but I haven’t read it for a very, very long time. I’ll have to do that!

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  6. Caroline Starr Rose says

    November 17, 2009 at 4:50 pm

    Heidi! You were a blog friend before this point, but now you’re a book friend, too. 🙂

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  7. Rosslyn Elliott says

    November 17, 2009 at 6:36 pm

    Hmmm – Tabitha also recommended The Power of One to me. So many good books, so little time.

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  8. Jemi Fraser says

    November 18, 2009 at 12:36 am

    I loved the Count of MC. LM Montgomery is an all time fave. Like Natalie, I don’t own all of my faves. I do have beautiful boxed editions of Hobbit and LoTR that I adore. Also the Little Women series. Okay McCaffrey & Robb are there too – I guess I do own quite a few of my faves 🙂

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  9. Stephanie Thornton says

    November 18, 2009 at 5:24 am

    Wow! I haven’t read any of these although Possession has been on my list for a while. I’m hoping to knock out several books over Winter Break so I’ll add some of these to the list. Thanks!

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  10. Julie says

    November 18, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    I love seeing other people’s (especially writers) favorite book lists, so thanks for sharing. I loved the Power of One, but I will say that the sequel Tandia wrecked me.

    I’m going to have to think about my list and I would have to break it down by genre I think (with a YA fantasy top ten and an everything else top ten). But my favorite book of all time is a book called The Mountain Is Young by Han Suyin. It’s out of print, but well worth the read. The writing is exquisite.

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  11. Caroline Starr Rose says

    November 18, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    Tandia wrecked you?? You’ve got to explain. I think I liked it even more than The Power of One.

    I must say, I don’t think I know of many Americans who’ve read both. Cool.

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  12. Julie says

    November 18, 2009 at 9:13 pm

    Tandia=Brilliant writing and a sadness factor of infinity. I’m a wimpy reader who loves hope and happy endings. It’s been a long time since I read it, but I can still remember crying my eyes out.

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