Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish
Top Ten Authors I've Read The Most Books
From
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobbit,
The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin, Tree and Leaf,The Smith of Wooten Major, Farmer Giles of Ham, Mr. Bliss.
Charles Dickens – A Tale of
Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, A Christmas
Carol
Tom Clancy – all the Jack
Ryan series, stopped after that.
Patrick McManus – The
Grasshopper Trap, How I Got this Way, Rubber Legs and White Tail Hairs, Never
Sniff a Gift Fish, They Shoot Canoes Don’t They?, The Night the Bear Ate
Goombaw, The Good Samaritan Strikes again, Real Ponies Don’t Go Oink (this one
is authographed) BIG RECOMMENDATION.
McMcanus is an outdoorsman humorist. These are all short story collections and
quite hilarious. One of the few writers who can make me laugh out loud.
George Orwell – 1984, Animal Farm
James Joyce – Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!
John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men
Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness, Nostromo
Mark Twain – The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ernest Heminwgay – The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ooops…that’s eleven.
I've never heard of Patrick McManus, but I'll have to see if the library has any of his books. I like good humor.
ReplyDeleteI predict you'll be hooked if you do.
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