Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Some Literary Top Tens (Journal 32)


“These books have kept me company through my long years” (from Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, p. 576).


Top 10 Children's Picture Books
  1. Old Turtle and the Broken Truth by Douglas Wood
  2. Three Questions by Jon Muth
  3. Mole Music by David McPhail
  4. Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman
  5. Henry's Night by D. B. Johnson
  6. Caleb's Lighthouse by Mark Kimball Moulton
  7. One Grain of Sand by Pete Seeger
  8. The Dump Man's Treasures by Lynne Plourde
  9. Papa's Song by Kate and Jim McMullan
  10.  The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg


Top 10 Intermediate or Young Adult Books
  1. Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery
  2. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
  3. The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
  4. Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
  5. Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
  6. Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli
  7. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
  8. Abarat by Clive Barker
  9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  10. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Top 10 Novels
  1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  3. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  4. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  5. The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman
  6. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
  7. The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson
  8. The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
  9. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
  10. A Rose inWinter by Kathleen Woodiwiss

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