Favorite Books

I just made a quick (about two minutes) list of my ten favorite books, as part of an exercise on creativity that I was doing. I thought I'd share it, with the reminder that it's not meant to be a serious, well-thought-out thing: it's my top ten great books that occurred to me while sitting at my desk (away from my library) on a Friday afternoon.

In no particular order:

• Open House by Elizabeth Berg
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• The Goneaway World by Nick Harkaway
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• The City and the City by China Mieville 
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
• PopCo by Scarlett Thomas
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• This one about memory, about this guy in London...I LOVED it, and I can't remember its title off the top of my head, nor its author.

I just noticed that I chose five books by men and five by women. (Curtis Sittenfeld is a woman, and the person who wrote the book I can't recall is a man.) Unintentional gender equity. 

Anyway, if you've read any of these, please, let's discuss them! I love to talk about books I've read!