The Ten Books thing going around Facebook

So many things go around Facebook, it drives me a little nuts.  But, as a lover of books, this is one that I didn’t mind so much.  Of course, narrowing it down to ten books that “Stayed with me” isn’t simply nearly impossible, it absolutely and positively is impossible.  I took a swing at the ball, though, and here are the ten I came up with.  Oh, yeah, it was fellow author Dave Elliott that railroaded me into this, the dude that co-wrote Fluke.

Here they are in no particular order:

The Voice of the Night by Dean Koontz (writing as Brian Coffey)

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

The Stand by Stephen King

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

What I don’t like about this challenge is that I had to exclude some fantastic authors whose books I love, possibly cumulatively more than the above novels singly, but the “challenge” is for stand alone tomes. I’ll break the rules and throw out some names of prolific writers with piles of books I love: John Grisham, Robert B. Parker, James Michener, Blake Crouch, and yes, the love & death stories of Nicholas Sparks.

When I discovered the Spenser series by Robert Parker, I ripped through them.  Loved the economical writing style, the humor, the always-present good and bad, but with some overlap … because doesn’t everyone get confused now and then?

But, I digress.  Happy Reading, world!