Our very own top 10 novels

I’d go along with Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre in the original list, and Demon Copperhead in TerriBull’s. I love Kate Atkinson, but my favourite of hers is still Behind the Scenes at the Museum.

For the other six I’ll have to look through my reading lists and see which ones I gave a 10 to. 😂 There’ll definitely be an Anne Tyler in there, and a Dickens.

I did love Alias Grace, wonderful book

Three cheers for any book written by Margaret Atwood ,Edith Wharton and for Carson McCullers .

Graphite -
Thank you for your list -these are new for me .

I think we must have the same sagging bookshelves, TB.

Contemporary novels. All of those. I would find it very hard to condense to a top ten but ,off the top of my head, memorable books include:

Kate Atkinson’s a God In Ruins, the companion novel to Life after Life
Carols Shields’ Stone Diaries
Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet
Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life
Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries
E Annie Proulx’s Barkskins
Anthony Doerr's All The Light We Cannot See
Marilynne Robinson's Gilead

plus anything by Margaret Atwood but a special mention for The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy.

Terribull -
A brilliant list .
You are very well read .
I've loved some of these books ,but have yet to read Kingsolver and Tartt .
I've got two of them lined up ready for my next read .
In the past I've read a lot of French and Russian classics and thoroughly enjoyed all of them.
These days I read more Art and Histiry books .

I nearly included Gone with the Wind I know I loved it, I read it Mid teens ....a long time ago. Also loved The Thorne Birds a decade or so later.

I can’t think of 10, but two of my favourite books that I have read time and again are….

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell.

Nice Work by David Lodge.