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Top Ten Favorite Books I've Read While Blogging

This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic at the Broke and the Bookish:

(I'm only counting books I read for the first time during the lifespan of my blog).

1. Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman

2. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

3. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

4. Elizabeth I by Margaret George

5. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

6. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

7. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

8. The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay

9. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

10. Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
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Sara said…
Some excellent choices! Loved Strange & Norell as well :)
August 22, 2012 at 12:35 AM
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