Ten more ten more!

So starting to lose track of what I've already posted…and then also amazed that some books I find to be super important have taken so long to get on the list.

1. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien

2. Dispatches - Michel Herr

3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

4. The Stand - Stephen King

5. A Brieft History of Time - Stephen Hawking

6. The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell with  Bill Moyers

7. Drumming at the Edge of Magic - Mickey Hart, Jay Stevens and Fredric Lieberman

8. The Tao of Nature - Zhuangzi

9. No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July

10. Born to Run - Christopher McDougall

Yes, it's another ten books!

I think my plan is to get to 100 and then compile one list.  I might even break it out into fiction and non-fiction.

1. Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins

2. A Natural History of the Senses - Diane Ackerman

3. Perfume:  The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind

4. Tender at the Bone - Ruth Reichl

5. White Oleander - Janet Fitch

6. The Secret History - Donna Tartt

7. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke

8. The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly

9. The Book of Dead Days - Marcus Sedgwick

10. Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart

And, as usual, this list is overflowing and getting ready for the next one….kinda love this.

Only Ten Books?

Oh, I finally got tagged in that whole "ten books that stayed with you" thing. Truly for someone who loves books and writing so much this is just cruel. But with a modicum of consideration, I think the following books are so close to my heart or psyche as to be inseparable.

1. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston 2. The Gift - Hafiz (Daniel Ladinsky trans.) 3. Blood Memory - Martha Graham 4. Family - J. California Cooper 5. Rap on Race - James Baldwin and Margaret Mead 6. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 7. The Lonely Doll - Dare Wright 8. Jazz - Toni Morrison 9. Queen of the Desert - Georgina Howell 10. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

Needless to say, on a different day a different list. And at least half of those authors could have alternate books listed.

Oh F*&^K! How could I leave out The Great Gatsby, which I re-read constantly and write poems to? And Jean Nathan's amazing biography of Dare Wright? And The Autobiography of Malcolm X? And What We Talk About When We Talk About Love?

And Alice Walker just slightly off list with either The Temple of My Familiar or Possessing the Secret of Joy.

Can I make a new top ten every week?