Now playing: “Spanish Bombs” by The Clash.
A friend told me that there was some poll asking what the top ten books you couldn’t live without are she didn’t provide the link found here). The results from the rather small poll:
1) Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 20%
2) Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkein 17%
3) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 14%
4) Harry Potter books – J K Rowling 12%
5) To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee 9.5%
6) The Bible 9%
7) Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8.5%
8) 1984 – George Orwell 6%
9) His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 6%
10) Great Expectations – Charles Dickens .55%
Here’s what I’m thinking mine are, off the top of my head (and I’ll stick to fiction narratives for simplicity):
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita
I know I probably wouldn’t chose the same ten books on a different day, but this is what I’m thinking right now. What do others think? What’s your list?
You consider Night to be fiction?
EEEK. No, I don’t. I’ll change “fiction” to “narrative” I guess. Thanks for catching that. Perhaps I shouldn’t post at 2 am.
100 Years of Solitude! I love that book!
Is your top ten in any particular order? (I’m guessing no.)
Any particular order? No. Although 100 Years of Solitude might be number one. 🙂
I just read The Giver so I feel much more in the know. Private school during middle school really screwed up what books I read. And I will try to have the comic from The New Yorker for you tomorrow if I see you have Vicki’s class.
Ditto to One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is also one of my favorites.