Stack of Spines

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My Top 10 list includes 11 books as an homage to the Big 10.  I’m a Midwestern girl, after all.

In alphabetical order…

• Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
• Ensler, Eve – The Vagina Monologues – See the play also if you can
  
• Follet, Ken – The Pillars of the Earth
• Gruen, Sara – Water for Elephants
• Hosseini, Khaled - A Thousand Splendid Suns – This one bumped The Kite Runner from my Big 10
  
• Irving, John – A Prayer for Owen Meany – Do not ever watch the movie Simon Birch.  Ever.
  
• Lowry, Lois - The Giver
  
• Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – yes, just #4
  
• Saint-Exupery, Antoine – Le Petit Prince – En francais s’il vous plait
  
• Setterfield, Diane - The Thirteenth Tale
• Smiley, Jane - A Thousand Acres

My favorite works of fiction include…

• Baker, Tiffany – The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
• Collins, Suzanne – The Hunger Games
• Follet, Ken – World Without End
• Giffin, Emily – Something Borrowed
• Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of a Geisha
• Hosseini, Khaled – The Kite Runner
• Keyes, Daniel – Flower for Algernon
• Koontz, Dean – Life Expectancy
• McCarthy, Cormac – The Road
• Mitchell, Margaret – Gone with the Wind
• Ogawa, Yoko – The Housekeeper and the Professor
  
• Rowling, J.K., - Harry Potter Series – in order of rating: 4, 6, 7, 1, 2, 5, 3
• Shaffer, Mary Ann – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
• Shriver, Lionel – We Need to Talk About Kevin
  
• Wood, Patricia – Lottery
• Wroblewski, David - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

My favorite non-fiction works are…

• Cullen, David – Columbine
• Gawande, Atul – Better
• Gawande, Atul – Complications
• Kingsolver, Barbara – Animal Vegetable Miracle
• Roach, Mary – Bonk
• Roach, Mary – Stiff

My favorite memoirs are…

• Burau, Caroline - Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat
• Gilbert, Elizabeth – Eat, Pray, Love
• Grogan, John – Marley & Me
• MacDonald, Michael Patrick – All Souls
• McCourt, Frank – Angela’s Ashes
• McCourt, Frank – Tis
• Morgan Steiner, Leslie – Crazy Love
• Pausch, Randy - The Last Lecture
• Raday, Sophia – Love in Condition Yellow
• Satrapi, Marjane – Persepolis
• Walls, Jeanette – The Glass Castle