The Top Ten Tuesday topic for yesterday was Top Ten Books You Would Save If Disaster Struck. It got me thinking. It’s not about your favorite books or the books you love to read. It’s about which books you own that are irreplaceable. I was looking around my house last night thinking about which books I would save and came up with this list. Most of them are gifts I’ve received over the years.
- A Broadman Hymnal from 1940 – It was a gift and I do love hymns.
- Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood – It’s a great collection, has a signed bookplate, and was a gift from my parents.
- The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall – First, it’s an awesome story about staying true to yourself. Second, it was a gift from my favorite teacher of all time.
- The Baker Street Dozen edited by P. J. Doyle and E. W. McDiarmid – I think this was my first Sherlock Holmes Collection. I can remember taking it when I went fishing with my dad and brother.
- Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard – It’s signed, a gift from my mom, and I haven’t read it yet.
- Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor- It was a birthday gift from my daughter several years ago.
- Life Of Pi by Yann Martel – It was a gift from my brother and I think he might kill me if I don’t read it eventually.
- Snoopy Come Home by Charles Shultz – I guess it’s based on a Peanuts movie. I don’t remember, but according to my mom this is one I wanted read over and over again when I was little, even though it made me cry every time.
- The last 3 Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling – I know that’s three books, but I’m cheating. Amber’s reading this series and loving it, so I would have to save the ones she hasn’t gotten to yet.
- Pirates of Desire from Book By You – A personalized Pirate romance.
- Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly – (I already admitted I’m cheating a little.) I have to save something for David, too, and I know he hasn’t read this one yet.
What books would you save? Why?
Wow…the only ones we share are the Harry Potter ones…but I do have a Snoopy one, too…and I have read Fancy Nancy!!!
Snoopy Come Home always makes me cry, too. Interesting question – I suppose we all have at least a few books that would be impossible to replace.
It sounds like you have a lot of special books.
Good choices 🙂 And I hope you read Pi soon ;=D
That looks like an awesome list to me!
I’m a little embarrassed, I’ve only read the Harry Potter books from your list.
What a great meme. Sadly I have only read Life Of Pi and the Harry Potter books neither of which I’d go out of my way to save though if I had to pick one of them it would be Life Of Pi.
What great choices. I am not sure what I would save yet. I would have to really think about that one.
Mary
Great choices! I love how you thought of what your daughter is reading, too. Of course, I’d save Jane Austen’s novels. 😉
Gifts I can understand..which is why I would take my Complete Sherloch Holmes, that my mom gave me when I was a teenager
I love that you chose ones with special meaning to you. Makes me think about the irreplaceable books I have.
Nice list of books to save 🙂 Especially since they all have a special meaning.
On my list would be my signed copy of Dean Koontz’s The Taking, and my vintage books from when I was a tween.
It’s great to save the books thst have a special meaning to you. For me it would be Gone With the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride&Prejudice, and every last one of the Harry Potter books.