another challenge: This time books!

September continues, it seems, to be the month of challenges. This time? A challenge on Facebook to list the 10 books that left their mark in some way.

After much thought here are my 10 book choices in no particular order:

1.     Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

2.     The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyovsky

3.     Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

4.     The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis

5.     The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

6.     The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

7.     One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

8.     Wild Swans by Jung Chang

9.     The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

10.  Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

I would like to add another 5 that I toyed with adding to the top list because they have added to the pleasure of reading:

1.     The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

2.     Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck & East of Eden by John Steinbeck

3.     The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

4.     Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

5.     Life of Pi by Yann Martel