Top Ten Tuesday is an weekly meme created by the awesome people at The Broke and Bookish, who love lists as much as I do.
Top Ten “Older” Books You Don’t Want People To Forget About (you can define older however you wish. Basically just backlisted books you think are great. Basically the point is to share books that could be forgotten about in the midst of all the new releases)
For this week I picked books that were published more than 2 years ago.
1. My Sweet Audrina by VC Andrews
No one does messed up like VC Andrews does. This one is a standalone, but that doesn’t make the drama any less.
2. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
One of my favorite books that I read in school.
3. A Time to Kill by John Grisham
It’s not my favorite Grisham (The Client is) but this one has the most impactful story.
4. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
My favorite book that I read in school.
5. Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
My favorite book that I read in college. Completely heartbreaking, but so worth it.
6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling
This should be self explanatory.
7. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
I loved this book and there is so much you can get from it. Also, a shout out goes here for To Kill a Mockingbird. I forgot to put it on my list!
8. Charlotte’s Web by EB White
Favorite book from the early years. It’s a beautiful story and again, there is so much you can get from it.
9. Alive by Piers Paul Read
What these men had to go through was amazing and encouraging to everyone.
10. Looking for Alaska by John Green
A John Green book had to make the list, right?
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What books made your list?
Of Mice and Me is timeless, I think. Characters that grab your heart from page one.
Here’s my Ten “Older” Books I Hope You Won’t Forget. I hope you will stop by!
Of Mice and Men was one of my favorite school reads.
Loved Of Mice & Men! And one of my fave books ever is Looking for Alaska!! Still need to read The Help though I have it on my shelf!
The Help was sooooo good! And Looking for Alaska is a must read!
Charlotte’s Web – awesome choice!! I haven’t read Coming of Age in Mississippi – I will add that to my to-read list.
I loved Coming of Age is Mississippi, it’s one of the few non fiction books that I would recommend.
I loved Charlotte’s Web as a child and definitely agree with it as a choice for your list (I should have put it on mine!). I’m seeing lots of list with the HP books – I certainly hope people are still reading the series many years from now.
I hope people never stop reading HP either. That would break my heart.
My sweet Audrina! That’s my favorite book from Andrews :) I was a huge fan of her when I was younger, but I don’t like “her” new work so much. And of course good old Harry Potter <3
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“Her” new work is not anywhere close to being as good as her old work. I kind of wish they would just stop.
Ooo… definitely Of Mice & Men! Charlotte’s Web is so sweet too.
Yep!
Your list rocks on its randomness! The fact that V.C. Andrews makes your list is part of what makes us friends- you can appreciate the dark and twisty!
No one does dark and twisty like VC Andrews!
I love how you did this post, its pretty! And guess what, I am a TA in history and we still teach Coming of Age in Mississippi! :-) Great book to include.
That’s good to know! Coming of Age in Mississippi was great.
Yey Harry Potter :D I’m going to have to try some of these books too!
Here’s mine: http://www.onstarshipsanddragonwings.com/2012/10/02/top-ten-older-books-you-dont-want-people-to-forget-about/
HP rocks!
Charlotte’s Web is such a wonderful story! I completely forgot to include it on my list, you definitely can learn a lot from it. Harry Potter made my list too.
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I figured HP would be would be on a lot of lists today. As it should be!
Thanks to this meme I have had that SImple Minds song in my head all day!
Great choices. I could never get tired of Charlotte’s Web :)
Yeah Charlotte’s Web will NEVER get old!
I swear one day I’m going to get to The Great Gatsby. :(
I swear… one day I will make you ;)
Harry Potter is a great choice! Sad to say I haven’t read Charlotte’s Web, but I do have a copy! I know…that’s horrible. One of these days!
I have a lot of love for Charlotte’s Web, so of course you should read it ;)
Ohhhh… you have some great reads on here! Charlotte’s Web was one of my favorites as a child and duh-I love Harry <3 lol. My Sweet Audrina was really good, and your spot on-no one does messed up like VC Andrews!
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I love old school VC Andrews. She always kept you on your toes.
Most of your list makes my heart so happy.
I’m so glad I made your heart happy!
I think Harry Potter is in really good shape to be remember for a long long looong time. And I agree that John Green deserves to be up there too!
If people ever forget about HP… They won’t, I won’t let it happen.