Books That Stay With You
In case I haven’t shared this with you, I am on Instagram. I have to admit, I am really barely functional on it. Only recently have I figured out how to see someone’s posts that I follow. Yesterday I started to follow a new person on Instagram, and not just because of her name (bookedandbusyreader), which is awesome. From the brief glimpses of her place and her vlogs (I hope that is the right word), I can really see, she is a reader! Her latest entry was called ‘Books That Stay With You’. She said she was going to curate the list based on her responses. If you ask, she will send you the list of books, so I did. I glanced at some of the people’s responses but mostly I was curious about the books. She curated the list from 124,000 people. (Let’s not even talk about how much that hurts my head to think about.)
Bookedandbusyreader sent me a link to a list – it was supposed to be only the top 20, but there were way more entries. I was curious enough to keep track of the books I read. It was about ⅓ of the list. I have added my list at the bottom. I then relooked at the list I read and thought about them in regard to the category and I think I can cut down the list even further. I put a star next to the ones that stayed with me. I do recognize I had a much easier task, but I realized how much some of those books stayed with me – over years. I would love to hear if any of the books are books that stayed with you as well. Please feel free to reply…
Meanwhile, from the west coast, Elise sent over an interview with J.A. Jance. I loved the sound of the newest book and I suspect some of you will too. There is also a guest review of Miss Morton and the Missing Heir by Catherine Lloyd.
Meanwhile, I really would like to hear about the books that have stayed with you. As promised my list from the list Bookedandbusyreader curated from her readers. In no particular order, I have put down the books I have read on the list and given **** stars to the books that have stayed with me.
The Help ****
To Kill a Mockingbird ****
The Glass Castle
Born a Crime
The Frozen River ****
Before We Were Yours ****
Mad Honey
Winter Garden ****
Water for Elephants
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl ****
The Alice Network
Book of Lost Names ****
Lonesome Dove
The Good Earth
The Women ****
The Wedding People
Where the Crawdads SIng ****
Kite Runner
My Sister’s Keeper ****
All the Light We Cannot See
The Great Alone****
The Nightingale ****
The Red Tent ****
Personally, Lord of the Rings should be on this list as it is one of the few books I have read multiple times in my life.
