Dear Readers,
Think back, way back, to the many books you have read over your lifetime.
Remember how it felt to curl up in your father’s big armchair on a frosty winter night, your favorite book in hand, delighting in every page you turned?
Remember perching in your favorite tree on a lazy summer afternoon, lingering over a masterfully constructed sentence, an imaginative phrase, the perfectly chosen word?
Remember when you simply could not put down the book you were reading?
And remember how you read your absolute favorite books over and over again?
Me too!
Well, talk about a challenge: I have been asked to whittle my lengthy list down to only 10 favorite titles!
Here are the rules for this CHALLENGE:
1._ Think about those books you enjoyed over a lifetime of reading. It is not easy to do because you have to whittle your list down to only TEN books! Write them down – make a list of 10.
2._ When you complete your list, post it on your blog.
3._ Send a link to your blog post to 3 friends and Invite your 3 friends who love books to take the challenge. List the 3 friends you are inviting at the end of your blog post.
4._ Ask your 3 friends to send you a link to their blog post so you can enjoy seeing their 10 favorite books, too.
6._ Your 3 friends will invite 3 of their friends to continue on with the challenge.
Here is my list:
My Ten Favorite Books
Compiled by Joan Myles
1. Rosalie the bird market turtle
By Winnifred and Cecil Lubell
2. Beautiful Joe
By Marshall Saunders
3. Little women
By Louisa May Alcott
4. The Martian Chronicles
By Ray Bradbury
5. Les Miserables
By Victor Hugo
6. Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7. The Time is Noon
By Pearl Buck
8. The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
9. Grapes of Wrath
By John Steinbeck
10. Pollution of the I
byJacques Lusseyran
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I invite 3 friends to share their favorites:
Pari-
Weeping Pines
Sakshi-
I refuse to give up
And yes, you, my darling Colleen-
It’s Colleen Myles
Please send me a link to your blog post– I can’t wait to know about your 10 favorite books!
Jewniquely Myself 
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Thank you, darling Patty!
Dostoyevsky and Victor Hugo are favourites! Thank you so much for nominating me 🙂
You are so welcome…I look forward to reading your list, my dear Pari!
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I created this Challenge and posted my own 10 favorite books on my blog.
I invited 3 friends to participate. This is Joan’s response to my challenge.
What do you think? Are any of your favorites on Joan’s list?
This list has several books on it that I read and loved, tool
When you think you can only list 10 books, it is really a difficult task.
You con’t have to wait to be invited. Just copy and paste the challenge for yourself, and post it on your blog.
Let the world see hwat your favorite books are.
A tough challenge…my list took me back to early childhood, to the many books I reread every summer vacation, into adulthood. Thank you, Linda!
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Thanks for participating.
I loved reading your list of books and hare you love of several of them.
I thought about trying to rank them…impossible! *smile*