Today I'm linking up with Top Ten Tuesday hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl which is all about lists. Since lists are one of my favorite things this is one of my favorite linkups! Today's topic is Book Titles That Describe Me/My Life. I couldn't come up with anything that fit that so I'm going with Books That Have Been Important to Me (in the last 15 years or so). I figure that's a pretty good window into me and my life!
1. The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson - This is one of the first books that my husband and I discussed together. We read very different things and very different amounts but it was still fun to discover that he read as well and that we had this book in common.
2. Love in the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas - I read this (and the rest of the Hathaway series) when I had a toddler and not much time to read and I remember it bringing such joy.
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - I read this for a very short lived book club I was in and it was one of the few books that really got a good discussion. Then my husband read it and we still discuss it occasionally. It's one I have such strong feelings about because I thoroughly enjoyed the book until a very unnecessary epilogue that kind of tanked how I felt about the book as a whole.
4. Where the Heart Is by Nora Roberts - This book collection taught me a very important lesson - that just because I love an author does not mean I'm going to love every book they've ever written. After this one I gave up trying to read her early books.
5. The Apple Orchard by Susan Wiggs - This is the first book I read on any kind of e-reader. I had gotten a Kindle Fire and took it with me on vacation and discovered just how convenient it was not to have to haul around stacks of books.
6. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright - I adored The Four Story Mistake by this author as a kid but never knew of any other books by her. I found my old copy when my mother moved and looked up the author up online and discovered a whole bunch more books in the Melendy family series.
7. Guidebook to Murder by Lynn Cahoon - This is one of my early review books and it was such fun getting in early on a beginning cozy series.
8. Goodnight June by Sarah Jio - This book really cemented my love of letters and voices from the past in books. I don't think I had really nailed that down and verbalized it until this point.
9. Crushed Velvet by Diane Vallere - This is the book that showed me that reading a cozy mystery series in order really can improve my enjoyment of the book as a whole.
10. The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen - This is the first magical realism book I ever read and it showed me just how much I enjoy that genre.
What books have been important in your life?
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