Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by The Broke and The Bookish! This week’s topic, with Thanksgiving in two days, is books that we’re thankful for. This isn’t usually how I think about books (I tend to think about good to bad, not more to less thankful), but I pondered for a bit, and here are ten books that make me grateful.
A Wrinkle In Time: For teaching me it was okay to be a prickly adolescent girl, and that I could still be the hero even if I was.
Anna Karenina: For teaching me that I didn’t hate Russian literature (just Dostoyevsky).
Memoirs of a Geisha: For being a wonderful book, and then inspiring me to think more critically about own voices.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: For inspiring in me a lifelong fascination with psychology and the brain.
Lolita: For teaching me that the English language can be playful and unexpected.
To Kill A Mockingbird: For showing and not telling its lessons about injustice and being all the more powerful for it.
Gone With The Wind: For teaching me that sometimes the movie is better.
Harry Potter: For being magical.
The Hunger Games: For reminding me that reading outside of my usual genre lines can be very rewarding indeed.
The Handmaid’s Tale: For making the misogyny behind male control of female reproduction blindingly obvious.