Book Meme

From Early Modern Material Culture:

Copy this list of 10 authors. Remove the ones not on your bookshelves and replace each of them with ones that are (replaced authors are in bold). [Not sure if this is meant to be non-fiction only but I ran out of fiction authors because I've recently sent a lot to the charity shop]

            1. William Trevor
            2. Hanif Kureishi
            3. Daniel Mason
            4. Thomas Pakenham
            5. Matthew Pearl
            6. Keith Thomas
            7. Christopher Hill
            8. Richard Brilliant
            9. Antony Griffiths
            10. William Shakespeare

Here's mine:
1. Audrey Niffenegger
2. Dave Eggers
3. A.S. Byatt
4. Nancy Farmer
5. Alexander Dumas
6. Don DeLillo
7. Margaret Atwood
8. Art Spiegelman
9. E.L. Doctorow
10. William Shakespeare

Comments

[Mesoj]

Atwood and Old Willie Shakes are the only two remaining on my list. Here are the New 8, which are my favorites from the most recent 25 books I've marked as mine on Amazon. (How interesting! Maybe others can try the same method. Just go to Your Store and click on the link at the top which should say "Recommendations for you are based on x items you own and more.")

Bob Dylan
Jon Stewart
William Penn
John Bellairs
Margery Williams
Marcella Genz
Lemony Snicket
Thomas D. Hamm

[hipteacher]

Good. I like this system. When listmaking or bookshelf organizing, I like a system. I wanted to list the last 10 I've read, my 10 favorite, or 10 I'd love to teach. My list ended up a little bit of all of those. Here's my amazon one in their appearing order (you can tell I've been looking at all those classroom classics and checking out the related books function...):

1. George Orwell
2. Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. J.D. Salinger
4. Sir Thomas More
5. David Sedaris
6. Geoffrey Chaucer
7. Tom Stoppard
8. Frederick Douglass
9. Toni Morrisson
10. Eva Hoffman

[Lectrice]

Gosh. I can't meet the requirements of this meme.

I live in temporary accommodation, and there's only three books on my bookshelf: Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex), Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections), and Alain de Botton (Status Anxiety). They're all library books, too.

I do possess a few thousand books other than these, but they've been inaccessible to me for a few years now. Sorry1

[hipteacher]

Lectrice-
Yikes! I would dearly miss having my stuff all around me. Books, cats and music must be piled high at all times. To be randomly in another part of the world, however, I'm sure makes up for spartan living.

I loved Middlesex.

[Lectrice]

I have the cats, and I have Middlesex - glad you liked it, as it was my all-time favourite book of 2004, so all is not lost. Happy New Year!