Thursday Thirteen: My 13 Fave Books
- The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown – scoff if you must, but 40 million people worldwide can’t be wrong.
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood – a story within a story, within a story. Very cool.
- Cane & Abel by Jeffrey Archer – one of the first ‘grown-up’ books I ever read that left me with a ‘wow, reading is the coolest thing in the world’ feeling.
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden – still amazed at how an American male author could get into the head of a 8 year old Japanese girl. That’s talent.
- Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux – cry every time
- Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane – complete and total mind-fuck. Makes you want to start again at the beginning.
- Tie: Bourne Identity and The Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Ludlum – excellent, twisted spy thrillers. RIP Mr. Ludlum, you are missed.
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner—1971 Nobel Prize winning book. I can’t say any more.
- Tie: The General’s Daughter and The Charm School by Nelson DeMille—but really, anything by DeMille is captivating. These two were just two shining examples.
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding—stayed with me a long time after reading it. First time I questioned the human psyche and what we’re capable of given the circumstances.
- Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery—fave childhood books.
- Harry Potter & the … by JK Rowling—fave childhood books read as an adult.
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury—shining example of Bradbury’s talents and my first encounter with the concept of censorship. Makes you think…
Links to other Thursday Thirteens!
1. ThommaLyn 2.Christine 3.Amy
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4 comments:
I love Lord of the Flies! I think I was the only one in my Grade 10 class who did. I even read it twice. Not something I'd normally do for a "school" book.
Happy TT!!
Hi, Wylie! I agree with Christine; Lord of the Flies is excellent. And recently I read Memoirs of a Geisha -- I liked it a great deal.
And yes, Fahrenheit 451! Great book!
I did my first Thursday Thirteen today. Fun! :)
I love #1, 4, 10, 11 and 12. Like Christine I read Lord of the Flies twice in school. Great book! I also did that with the Chrysalids by John Wyndham ... oh my goodness I forgot all about John Wyndham how did that happen?
No SupperWorks out here ... wish there was.
I loved Fahrenheit 451, funnily enough my son recommended it to me-how great is that?
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