The website for World Book Night 2012 is collecting readers’ top ten book lists – your all-time favorite books to read, share, and give. What’s on your top ten list?
The books that I read repeatedly and give as gifts are (in no particular order) -
The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Possession by AS Byatt
Club Dumas by Arturo Perez Reverte
Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Eight by Katherine Neville
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Dune by Frank Herbert
Some of my all time favorite books:
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson