It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Top Ten Books I Wouldn’t Mind Santa Bringing Me. I know I’m getting some books for Christmas but why not mention books I want to get my hands on.
- & Sons by David Gilbert
- 501 Must Read Books by Emma Beare
- 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
- A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
- Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon
- Ethics, Evil, and Fiction by Colin McGinn
- Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux by Boris Kachka
- How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
- In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- On Literature by Umberto Eco
- Paperback Confidential: Crime Writers of the Paperback Era by Brian Ritt
- Raymond Chandler: A Mysterious Something in the Light by Tom Williams
- Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed by John Paul Athanasourelis
- S. by J.J. Abrams & Doug Dorst
- Shelley’s Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family by Stephen Hebron
- Stoner by John Edward Williams
- The Dark Path: A Memoir by David Schickler
- The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded by Clifton Fadiman
- The Parrots by Filippo Bologna
- The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino
That’s ten books right (and that is just a taste, more here)? I’m surprised how many non-fiction books made my list. Maybe 2014 will be the read of reading non-fiction for me.
Great wish list Michael. Those Raymond Chandler bio’s caught my eye. What did Santa get you for christmas?
I got what I wanted from my wish list – The High Window, Playback & The Long Good-Bye by Chandler and The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett