Timeless Top Ten
I have just read the latest NZ Woman’s Weekly (tragic but true) and the book reviewer Sarah Kate Lynch gave her Timeless Top Ten booklist. Her list is:
- Angela’s Ashes
- Bridget Jones’s Diary
- Chocolat
- The Wind in the Willows
- The Denniston Rose
- The Edmonds Cookery Book
- The Firm
- The Horse Whisperer
- The Lovely Bones
- The Shipping News
I would only put one of her choices on my list (prize to the first one of you who can guess which one*) – what would be on your list? Post your top ten reads (serious lists only!) and I will raid my prize hamper for all genuine responses.
*Hint -the Edmonds book isn’t a hint.
my personal top ten, in no particular order, at this moment in time:
1. the outsiders – s. e. hinton
2. my uncle oswald – roald dahl
3. i capture the castle – dodie smith
4. score! – jilly cooper
5. harry potter series – j. k. rowling
6. tales of a fourth-grade nothing – judy blume
7. the boy in the striped pyjamas – john boyne
8. the time traveler’s wife – audrey niffenegger
9. animal farm – george orwell
10. memoirs of a geisha – arthur golden
Thanks for your list. We have several of your favourites as student texts. The boy in the striped pyjamas is well worth reading if anyone hasn’t read it yet.
The Denniston Rose ???
I wouldn’t have a clue..but there’s a guess..
The book on your list has to be Bridget jones’s diary
My top ten (in no particular order):
1. The Harry Potter series
2. Northern Lights
3. The Curse Of The Gloamglozer
4. Stormrider
5. Jeremy Clarkson: On Cars
6. The Lost Tale Of Merlin
7. The Seven Songs Of Merlin
8. The Dark Half
9. Misery
10. The Outsiders
Here’s my top 10, Exodus the best by far
1. Exodus – Julie Bertanga
2. A short history of nearly everything – Bill Bryson
3. The boy in the striped pyjamas – John Boyne
4. LOTR trilogy – J.R.R Tolkien
5. Notes from a big country – Bill Bryson
6. The Chamber – John Grisham
7. Hobbit – J.R.R Tolkien
8. Ravens Gate – A Horowitz
9. Narnia, the lion the witch and the wardrobe – C.S Lewis
10. Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone – J.K Rowling
i would say that you would be a briget jones’ diary fan so thats my guess..
1 Four Fires-Bryce Courtney
2 Deathly Hallows-JK Rowling
3 Interesting Times-Terry Pratchett
4 1984-George Orwell
5 The Da Vinci Code-Dan Brown
6 Northern Lights-Phillip Pullman
7 King Rat-??????
8 The Colour of Magic-Terry Pratchett
9 Tomorrow, When the war Began-John Marsden
10 while i live-John Marsden
Thank you all for your booklists. I am very pleased to see the great texts that you have chosen. Who says young people don’t read! If you guys are reading Orwell, Tolkien etc as well as Clarkson and Bryson in Year 10 all bodes well for the future. Speaking of Bryson and Clarkson, I have quite a collection if anybody wants to borrow a book. Good guesses at my booklist text but no correct answers yet. I did enjoy Bridget Jones though!
I would have picked the Shipping News. The movie isn’t close to the book. It changed from British to American didn’t it?
You are right Alastair. I love that book! The film was a disappointment. Kevin Spacey as Quoyle? Even Judi Dench couldn’t save it!
This is my top ten, in no particular order.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S. Thompson
Good Omens- Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Rip It Up and Start Again- Simon Reynolds
The Picture of Dorian Grey- Oscar Wilde
A Walk in the Woods- Bill Bryson
Lost Souls- Poppy Z. Brite
The Time Travellers Wife- Audrey Niffenegger
Making History- Stephen Fry
The Gashlycrumb Tinies- Edward Gorey
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency- Douglas Adams
Thanks for the list Megan. I also like Stephen Fry and The Time Traveller’s Wife. Good to see another Bryson fan!
My list:
BFG – Roald Dahl
Hop on Pop – Dr Suess
Jane and the Dragon – Martin Baynton
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson Dairy – Lynley Dodd
Shiloh – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Charlotte’s Web – E.B White
Secret 7 – Enid Blyton
The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
Welcome to Camp Nightmare – R.L. Stein
Captain Underpants – Dav Pilky
Pretty fetch list ay?
Perhaps I should give my actual favourites?
I’ll have to think about it for a while….
Hm, well any chance to ramble on about my own interests. Thouugh it’s also quite interesting to read what other people find to be their favourites. Here are mine in no particular order.
- Checkmate – Dorothy Dunnett
- Oxford book of Verse (don’t laugh at me, it has EVERYTHING poetry)
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxely
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Human Instinct – Robert Winston (don’t laugh at me, I reference it all the time. Best. Genetics. Book. Ever.)
- Lord of the Rings – Tolkien
- The School for Scandal – Richard Brinsely Sheridan
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- The Crucible – Arthur Miller
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
my top ten books:
1) The power of one-bryce courtney
2)the tomorrow series-john marsden
3)Harry potter-j.k. rowling
4)goodnight mister tom-can’t remember.
5)Much ado about nothing-william shakespeare
6)Cross stitch-Diana Gaebouldin?
7)Matilda-Rohl dahl
8)Tandia-Bryce courtney
9)Underwater light-Maya
10)seeya simon-dont remember
Mine is easy, it goes like so:
1: BREAKING DAWN – Stephenie Meyer
2: ECLIPSE – Stephenie Meyer
3: TWILIGHT – Stephenie Meyer
4: NEW MOON – Stephenie Meyer
5: The Denniston Rose – Jenny Pattrick
6: Heart Of Coal – Jenny Pattrick
7: A Respectable Girl – Fleur Beale
And tbh, theyre the only ones i’ve ever enjoyed.,