Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week's topic is not to be taken lightly. These are books that will be with you forever on whatever deserted island you find yourself on. Kindles will do us no good and we must think very carefully about what books we will spend the rest of our lives with, should we not be rescued.
Here are mine, in no particular order. Ten fiction and the single solitary non-fiction, which will surprise exactly no one.
Because OF COURSE I would never go anywhere without Dan Jones The Plantagenets. After all, this is the book that named my baby.
Life wouldn't be too terrible on a deserted island with these eleven books. However, I'd prefer to not be stranded and to just read them all at home.
Happy Reading
Sarah
Ooh, Jurassic Park! Good idea. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! It's a rare instance of the book and movie both being fantastic. I could read it over and over.
Deletethe complete Shakespeare, Chaucer, Chesterton, Asimov, Herodotus, Gibbon, Aristotle, Walter Brooks (Freddy the Pig), Steinbeck, and Sturgeon (list subject to change with no notice, lol)
ReplyDeleteLol, of course!
DeleteI'd want books I'd like to reread over and over...or super long books. My TTT is off-topic this week. My list
ReplyDeleteThat's what these are, books I can read over and over because they are all time favorites.
Delete"should we not be rescued" haha right? This IS a big decision. I probably should have picked a Christie because she IS the queen of mystery, right? One Of Us Is Lying- excellent decision. Shoulda picked a McManus, probably. Jurassic PArk... nice. Some classics. And The Plantagenets- nice again! I really need to read some Jones.
ReplyDeleteA lot of thought went into this list...there were some tough decisions on what to include and I tried hard to stick to ten for fiction. For once I was successful, lol
DeleteI wanted to include an Agatha Christie in mine, but couldn't decide which one! To Kill a Mockingbird is also one I'd like to have included, choosing just ten made it so hard!
ReplyDeleteIt was a tough call - that's why I went with And Then There Were None because it was the first book of hers that I ever read. Last week my list had 30 books, so I figured better stick to 10 fiction this week, lol
Deletehello, happy reading! those books look great!
ReplyDeleteThank you! They are my all-time favorites!
DeleteYes Little Women and To Kill a Mockingbird are great choices, I need to read Jurassic Park and the Shining. My TTT: https://readingwithkat.wordpress.com/2021/07/27/ttt-books-i-would-want-with-me-on-a-desert-island/
ReplyDeleteJurassic Park is SO good, my fave by Crichton, though he has so many fantastic works.
DeleteOh, some good ones. I read 1, 2, 5 and 6. Great choices.
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Thank you! It was hard sticking to ten fiction, but I managed!
DeleteIt's always hard. Sometimes I manage, sometimes I don't. No reason to sweat the small stuff.
DeleteMost of the time I don't and I end up with tons more but oh well!
DeleteI don't think anyone sticks to the "rules" all the time, I don*t even think they are rules as such, just ideas and guidelines.
DeleteAgreed. Plenty of people do their own thing, change the topic to suit them, etc. I've had to do that a lot of times when the weekly topic is geared more toward fiction than non-fiction.
DeleteEven if you read mostly fiction, the topic doesn't always "click".
DeleteTrue; I tweak them pretty often but almost never adhere to the number ten
DeleteI'd definitely have to have at least one copy of '101 Ways to Escape from a Deserted Island'..... [lol]
ReplyDeleteLol, of course you would!
DeleteHmm! Some great classics here. Anne of Green Gables IS a good book to have on a deserted island... Here's what I came up with: my list!
ReplyDeleteThank you! Anne is my kindred spirit, I adore her!
DeleteThe Shining and To Kill a Mockingbird are excellent choices.
ReplyDeleteHere is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
Thank you!
DeleteLittle Women...To Kill a Mockingbird...Anne of Green Gables...all of these would be books I'd take along.
ReplyDeleteFor sure. I don't reread usually, but all of the books on this list I have read multiple times.
DeleteI loved To Kill A Mockingbird and Anne of Green Gables. Little Women is one of my favorites. Here is my post-https://paigesofbook.blogspot.com/2021/07/top-ten-tuesday-books-id-want-with-me.html.
ReplyDeleteThey're all books that are comforting and that I have read many times. Seems perfect for a deserted island, right??
DeleteI had to read To Kill A Mockingbird for school, so it's definitely not one I'd want to have with me forever (though in fairness it was the best of the ones I had to read for school). I wasn't a big fan of One of Us Is Lying or Foul is Fair either, so I'm glad you enjoyed them more than I did.
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2021/07/27/top-ten-tuesday-326/
The first time I read Mockingbird was the summer between 5th and 6th grade. I found it on my uncle's bookshelf and read it in one afternoon. By the time we read it in high school, I was impatient with those around me who were just reading it for the first time, lol
DeleteTo Kill a Mockingbird and Jurassic Park are great choices! Kind of wish I'd included them on mine.
ReplyDeleteMy TTT
Remember them for next time a similar topic comes around!
DeleteOh, I need to check out The Plantagenets book, I love the odd historical non-fiction every once in a while. Happy reading! My TTT https://readwithstefani.com/ten-books-i-want-to-read-by-the-end-of-2021/
ReplyDeleteIt's FANTASTIC. I read non-fiction almost exclusively and it is my all-time favorite - though his new one, Powers and Thrones, is also amazing.
DeleteOh, I love seeing Wait Till Helen Comes on your list this week. Such a brilliant ghost story.
ReplyDeleteRIGHT??!! I introduced my then-seven year old (just turned eight, and still reading them all) to Mary Downing Hahn and she's torn through them so quickly. I am so glad she loves them as much as I do.
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