Top 5 (now 10) Books

[lupinesque]

Oh dear.  Catherine introduced poetry, which will surely make my list 
burgeon over 10, and which also raises the question of whether 
nonfiction should be on the list--argh, no, it's all too much!

And then Christian delivers the sad news that Astrid Lindgren died 
(over a month ago . . . how did I miss it?), which reminds me that The 
Brothers Lionheart must go onto the list if I look at the entire range 
of my life and not just at books that are my top 5/10 in adulthood.

Ah well, here goes (they aren't in order):


The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee

HP--if not allowed to include them all (sob!), then PoA

The Dispossessed, Ursula K. LeGuin

The Left Hand of Darkenss, Ursula K. LeGuin

The complete fiction of Flannery O'Connor (I'm pretty sure Modern 
Library bundles it all into one volume, saving me the awful choice 
between the short stories and The Violent Bear It Away)


Hmm...I haven't named a book by a man yet.  And to think that for most 
of literary history people said women couldn't write.  I'll try to 
redress the balance.


His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman--if forced to choose one, The Amber 
Spyglass

Lord of the Rings (this is surely one book so I assert the right to 
have all three)

Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson


And back to a woman for the last, because if we go by sheer number of 
times reread, I must include Dorothy L. Sayers.  Probably Lord Peter, 
or maybe Strong Poison.

Amy
hitting "send" quickly before Hawthorne, Kafka, Atwood, 
Kundera, Pratchett, Walker or Salinger can get their claws into her 
and demand to be included