My ten eleven twelve thirteen fifteen favorite authors and my favorite book by each one are:
Pearl S. Buck...The Good Earth
William Steig...Rotten Island
Annie Dillard...A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
James Thurber...The 13 Clocks
J.R.R. Tolkien...The Hobbit
Ruth Krauss...How to Make an Earthquake
Edith Wharton...The Age of Innocence
Sinclair Lewis...Main Street
Maira Kalman...The Principles of Uncertainty
Alexandre Dumas...The Count of Monte Cristo
Larry McMurtry...Lonesome Dove
Anne Lamott...Traveling Mercies
Sid Fleischman...Chancy and the Grand Rascal
George Orwell...Animal Farm
Robert M. Pirsig...Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Do we share any of the same favorite authors?
Do we share any of the same favorite books by the same favorite authors?
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.
Nice picks! I think I've only read one of these and that was Dumas! Which that was my favorite as well as that is the only one I ever read by him! Lol.
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I don’t think that I have ever tried to figure out my favourite author, and I suspect that were I to do so it would depend on the time in my life when I got to know them. I doubt that the list would remain static. Having said that some of my favourites are Robertson Davies, Ernest Hemingway, Somerset Maugham, Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, Margaret Atwood and Rohinton Mistry.
ReplyDeleteThe Good Earth was excellent!
ReplyDeleteGreat list. And there's quite a few I need to read here. From Thurber I've liked the Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and from Sinclair Lewis: Babbit ... and Annie Lamott Bird by Bird ... and Wharton : hard to choose from several. So I like your picks being different.
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ReplyDeleteI love how you changed it to 15 authors! If I had to chose I think I'd pick James Michener and Valerie Perrin...but there are so many authors I like very much and usually try and grab their new publications. Recently I have become anamoured of John Boyne's writing.
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ReplyDeleteI really like the cover for The Principles of Uncertainty! Lonesome Dove is also on my list for this year.
ReplyDeleteWhat fun books. Love Anne Lamott. Some of these books are old friends!
ReplyDeleteWe have quite different lists but you made great selections
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your #TTT
Well, I've read The Good Earth, The Age of Innocence, The Hobbit, and Lonesome Dove, but nothing more by those authors, so I guess they're not exactly favorites. I suppose mine would include Ann Pachett, Barbara Kingsolver, Louise Penny, Rosamunde Pilcher, Tana French, Susan Hill, Elizabeth Strout, and Joyce Maynard.
ReplyDeleteI adore how you stretched out your list :-) I, too, am a big fan of George Orwell and J.R.R. Tolkien!
ReplyDeleteI'm curious, have you read Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit? I recently became aware of it and have added it to my TBR.
I have not read it. I hope you will read it soon and share your thoughts about it.
DeleteWonderful collection of books here! Have you read Pearl Buck's Portrait of a Marriage?? Oh my so so good!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great list! I have actually read several of them. While I don't really think in terms of lists of favorites, if I were pressed to name my all-time favorite book I think it might well be "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek." That book had a profound effect on me and it resonates with me still.
ReplyDeleteNice picks! Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one of the few books my dad's ever talked about/recommended to me; I should really give it a shot.
ReplyDeleteQuite a few of these are new to me. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteI think Traveling Mercies is my favorite book by Lamott, too. I want to read something by Sinclair Lewis. Now I know to start with Main Street.
ReplyDeletelol! 😂 too difficult to limit to 10! Brilliant list! Love Tolkien! ~Carol @ ReadingLadies
ReplyDeleteYou have an interesting list. Can't blame you for changing the list from 10 to 15. It's always hard to narrow favorites down.
ReplyDeleteThe Count of Monte Cristo is the first, and only, classic I've picked up of my own choice. And I loved it! I think a lot of people are intimidated by the size, but it is such a quick read.
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Ouch Deb we don't share the same reading tastes, but that's okay. I love looking!
ReplyDeleteHi Deb, even though you and I may not share the same reading tastes, I absolutely love your posts and enjoy hearing what you have been reading. Thank you so much for sharing this list, dear friend! :)
ReplyDeleteI’ve read 9 or 10 of your listed books. I’ve never been able to say what my favorite books/authors are, though. At least not since around third grade when I constantly reread Little Women (as I’m sure I’ve mentioned often). Also a few years later when I loved The Three Musketeers as well as The Count of Monte Christo. Unfortunately I didn’t know about The Hobbit when I was a child.
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We like different kinds of books but that's a great list.
ReplyDeleteThe Hobbit was what started a lifelong love of fantasy for me. I just got back from a trip to New Zealand in March and was lucky enough to get to visit Hobbiton while I was there.
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I need to find How to Make an Earthquake. Although I have to admit I liked 1984 more than Animal Farm (even though the ending frustrated me).
ReplyDeleteAnimal Farm, The Good Earth, The Hobbit -- I'd list those, too.
ReplyDeleteOur tastes in reading often align, and since I saw a couple on your list I had not read, I definitely shall put them on my TBR list!
ReplyDeleteI do love Orwell, Tolkien, and Thurber, but I don't know if any of them is my favorite. I have a hard time choosing a favorite anything... But the 13 Clocks is a favorite, and the Hobbit is one of the few books I've read more than twice. I am very surprised to see that book by Ruth Kraus, illustrated by Crockett Johnson, which I've never even heard of. I need to look into it right away! Thank you for this interesting post.
ReplyDeleteHa! I love how you kept crossing out the numbers. I needed to do that. I got to ten then remembered The Hobbit!
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