Top 28 Books that Bloggers Cannot Do Without

It my neck of the woods it is the fifteenth, and you know what that means, I post the offical list for the books that bloggers cannot live without! I chose only books that received more than two votes, but I will post the books that recieved two votes and one vote in the coming days. I sort of have a plan.

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings (including The Hobbit) by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
4. Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
5. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
6. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
8. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
9. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
10. Little House on the Praire series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
11. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
12. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
13. The Bible
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Possession by A.S. Byatt
16. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
17. The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery
18. The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop
19. Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
20. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
21. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
22. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner
23. The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne
24. The Time Quartet by Madeleine L'Engle
25. Twilight and New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
26. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
27. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
28. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

This was really fun. My thanks to EVERYONE that joined in. What do you think of the list? Are there surprises? Are there books that should be there and are not? Do you think it is a good representation?

So, to show my appreciation, I got someone to choose a number between one and 48 (that's how many lists I received), and the winner is going to get to pick one of the books on the list of 28 that they would like to read. If you do not want to read any of them, you can pick a new number. The only catch is that you have to wait until May to receive your book because I am in exam-land, and cannot be expected to think coherently until then.

Anyways, the winner is number three:

Stephanie from Stephanie's Confessions of a Book-a-holic. Just let me know which book you want and I will ship it to you when I get the chance!

**** This list has been updated slightly because I forgot a list. My apologies to Caelum-Amo from Identity. I meant to save your blog for later, but I forgot to go back to it!

Ten Books You Cannot Live Without

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This is just a reminder to people to join in on the Blogger List of Books They Cannot Live Without. I think this could be fun and interesting to see what books get the top spots. The final number will depend on how many people participate and how often there are duplicates in books.

Also, do not forget that it would be best to only include books that you have read, and they do not have to be your favourite books of all time, just the books that you think that you or the world could not be without. Try and limit yourself to ten, but if you need one or two extra, like for a Thursday Thirteen, that would be fine. Try not to go overboard!

The chance to join will run for a month, that will give people time to decide what they want to include on their lists, so get your thinking caps on! And, be sure if you join in you let me know somehow, preferably by commenting on my blog. Hopefully if people start joining word of mouth will carry and we can get even more people joining in.




Participants Lists:
Becky's Book Reviews
Chris's book-a-rama
Stephanie's Confessions of a Book-a-holic
Me
A Piece of my Mind
Nat
Tripping Toward Lucidity
Tanzanite's Shelf and Stuff
It's All About Books
3M's Booklist
Bookgirl's Nightstand
SciFiChick
Tempting Persephone
The Way I See It
An Adventure in Reading
In Season
Writing my Life Away
Book Nut
West of Mars
A Patchwork of Books
Travel and Reading
Morsie Reads
A High and Hidden Place
In Pink
Thrifty Reader
Caught Between Worlds
historical-fiction.net
Rene Lyons
Books Love Me
Life Long Reader
Literate Kitten
a Fair Substitute for Heaven
The Sheila Variations
Caged Minutes
The Dragon's Loss
My Piece of Heaven
Bookfoolery and Babble
Amelia's Passion
Jennie's B[ook]log
The Indextrious Reader
Yarn~Knit~Read~Lit
Tea Reads
Caribous Mom
Practicing Stillness
Between the Covers
Rhinoa's Ramblings
Stuff Running 'Round My Head
Stitches May Vary
Identity

Anyone else? Come on people, it's fun!

Some More Lists

Here are two lists that were sent to me through my comments and email.

From Bowled Over and Out who is having technological problems:

The Runes of The Earth, Stephen Donaldson
Signs of Life - Gaia, James Lovelock
Stories From Shakespear, The Complete Plays
Vanity Fair, Thackeray
Mustn't Grumble, Terry Wogan
Middlemarch, George Elliot
Wessex Tales, Thomas Hardy
I Claudius and Claudius the God, Robert Graves
Soul Mountain, Guo Xingjian
Don Quixote, Cervantes

From Louise, who had a blog but decided to get rid of it:

The Sound of One hand Clapping – Richard Flanning
- I have read this book a few times and each time a different part appeals to me.

The Black Jewel Trilogy – Anne Bishop
- This book opened a whole new genre for me and it is also a superb story

The Babysitters Club – Ann M Martin
- I read everyone I could get my hands on when I was a kid. I so want to be Claudia when I was younger.

The Power of One- Byrce Courtenay
- I read this book for the first time when I was 14 and it really pulled me back into reading and I still love it every time I go for a re read

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- This is an amazing story beautifully written and the sense of achievement when I finished the book was worth the weeks that it took me to read it

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- I just loved everything about this book.

The Bridge to Holy Cross (Tatinana & Alexander) – Paullina Simmons
- I was going to say the whole trilogy but then I realised that this one was the best in the series and it is the only one I would consider re reading.

The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
- This book started me on a religious journey and for that I am gratefully plus it is just a really good story

Fall on your knees – Ann Marie MacDonald.
- This book was given to me by someone I used to work with and I have now tried to convince everyone I know to pick up this book. It is dark and disturbing and it is a wonderful piece of writing.

And one is for all the great books I have yet to read and all the books I have loved but didn’t quite make this list.