List #1 - Books

Don't you hate all those arbitrary lists?  Like the 10 best places to retire; or the 10 safest cities; or the 10 desserts you must eat before you die?

Yeah well I hate them too, but Saturday is my day off so here is my first useless list of 10 to fill up space.

My ten favorite books of all time, in no particular order:

1. Slide, Danny , Slide (by Matt Christopher).  I have to include this one because it is the book I have probably read the most times in my life (like maybe 100 times between the ages of 8 and 10).  It's a book about Danny in Little League, and yes I still have the book.
2. Light in August (William Faulkner)
3. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
4. Godel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter)
5. The Shipping News (Annie Proulx)
6. The Accidental Century (Michael Harrington).  There are several of Harrington's books that I read in the 70s that are very special to me.  This is one of them.
7. The Liars Club (Mary Karr)
8. Atonement (Ian McEwan)
9. The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
10. The Best and the Brightest (David Halberstam)

I'm sure I am giving more weight to more recent readings, but that's probably pretty normal.  These are the ones that popped out of my head today.  Maybe I'll do it again in a year or so and see what pops out then.