For today's top ten topic, The Broke and The Bookish are asking us to choose our favourite ten books from those we've read so far in 2013. I didn't realize what a good reading year it has been until I started making the list. Here are my top ten, in no particular order:
The Bridge of San Louis Rey (Thornton Wilder) - Unusual story, wonderful writing. Won the Pulitzer Prize 1929. If you haven't read it, do!
I Capture The Castle (Dodie Smith) - I
absolutely loved this story of a girl and her somewhat odd family living
in a run down castle in rural England. So glad I found it.
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) - great writing, amazing story
The Return of the Prodigal Son (Henry Nouwen) - beautiful, eye-opening, profound
Elizabeth The Queen (Sally Bedell Smith) - reading this was a highlight of my year!
Middlemarch (George Eliot) - I had been warned I'd be bored but that didn't happen. I loved it!
Sophie’s World (Jostein Gaarder) - an incredible novel that includes within the story a history of philosophy. This one went on my list of "Best Books I've Ever Read".
How about you? What are your favourites from the first half of 2013?
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5 comments:
Great Gatsby - you can never go wrong with a book like that :)
I read I Capture the Castle a few years ago. I love it. I love it. I love it. :)
The End of your Life Book Club is a must read and I have yet to read it :( Need to get on it stat! Great selection :)
My TTT: http://www.bookythoughtsandme.com/top-ten-books-ive-read-so-far-in-2013/
I'm so very glad to find someone who enjoyed Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith. I simply loved it and learned so much. I listened to it as an audiobook and it made my long commutes to work a breeze. I was sad to part with it and would have enjoyed knowing more.
I also loved I Capture the Castle and hope that it will continue to be widely read. My mother put me on to it because she had read it in her young adulthood.
Enjoyed the selection!
Judith (Reader in the Wilderness)
This is the 3rd site that has recommended I Capture the Castle. I guess I should get it out of the library.
So far the best this year - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. So inventive, funny and wonderful dialogue.
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