Sunday Salon: Which books should I take?
This week, I have been reading Last Orders by Graham Swift and listening to His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I have not had very much reading time this week so I will spend today doing that. First though, I have a little request for you Salonists.
At the end of this month, I am going to be moving overseas for at least a year. I have been deciding about which books to take and subsequently to read when I move. Since I will not return for awhile, it’s difficult choosing which to take with me and read in my time abroad. While I will be moving to an English speaking and may buy a couple of books and frequent the library, I want to take some books that I own with me, probably around five. Help me out, by choosing the books you think I should take and have not read. I own all the books below and have not read any of them in full. Most of them are paperback. If anything, the poll would serve as the type of books people who visit the blog like. Thank you!
Which books should I take?
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien (this is actually two books) (10%, 11 Votes)
- Possession by A. S. Byatt (10%, 11 Votes)
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (7%, 8 Votes)
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (6%, 7 Votes)
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (6%, 6 Votes)
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (6%, 6 Votes)
- Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy (6%, 6 Votes)
- Don Quixote by Cervantes (6%, 6 Votes)
- Bleakhouse by Charles Dickens (6%, 6 Votes)
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (5%, 5 Votes)
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (5%, 5 Votes)
- The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (4%, 4 Votes)
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (4%, 4 Votes)
- A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (4%, 4 Votes)
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver (3%, 3 Votes)
- The Warden and Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope (3%, 3 Votes)
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (3%, 3 Votes)
- Poems and Plays by T. S. Eliot (2%, 2 Votes)
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2%, 2 Votes)
- Plays by Anton Chekhov (2%, 2 Votes)
- Voyager by Diana Gabaldon (1%, 1 Votes)
- Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon (1%, 1 Votes)
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1%, 1 Votes)
- ticky box! (1%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 108
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Literary Links:
Times Online has Philip Pullman’s Reading List.
7 Writing Habits of Amazing Writers
Planet ebook - Yet another ebook site; this one uses PDF.
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