Welcome to another contribution to the wildly popular Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. This week they ask us to share lists on the following:
November 21: Top Ten Books I’m Thankful For
First off, Happy Thanksgiving to all of my followers in the United States. I hope you have a good holiday. This week I’m going to pick books that have had a profound influence on either my personal life or reading taste over my life. So I’m not going to limit myself to reads from just this year. Many of these titles you will have seen before on my TTT lists.
Ten books that I’m thankful for.
Going to start off with this title and while I know it isn’t a masterpiece of literary fiction I was a huge fan of the Twilight series. While I have moved on from this author I am grateful for its opening me up to the world of genre fiction and vampires especially. I might never read it again but it shall forever hold a special place in my heart.
This is the book I credit with helping me move on from the world of Twilight. After falling for this series I have never picked up the Twilight series again, I’ve read it three times. This series taught me that paranormal books can be so much more.
I have long since broken up with this author but I’m grateful for The Shining because it was a way for a 13-year-old to connect with a mother she had just lost. I read this book because it was one of her books and it was a way to keep a piece of her in my life. It no longer has its cover but it will always have a place on my shelves.
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This book I credit for showing me that high fantasy doesn’t have to be as awful as The Lord of The Rings… That was just painful to read.
This is one of my all-time favorite books and I am so thankful for the Blogging for Books program that introduced me to Andy Weir.
I’m sure this isn’t the first book on reincarnation that I read as a teen but I’m going to use it as an example. I’m eternally grateful for the books I’ve read over the years on this subject. They have helped me to form a personal ideology that feels true to my soul and cope with the passing of loved ones in my life. These books have brought me much comfort and enlightenment over the years.
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Can’t have a list of books I’m thankful for without the first book I read by my favorite author. This is the one that started it all for me.
I’m grateful for this series! It has brought me so much delight since I found it. I also credit it with helping me move into other areas of paranormal fiction beyond just vampires.
This was the first book I read by Mr. Scalzi and what inspired me to take an evening out of my Chicago trip and go meet him in person. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a copy of Redshirts for him to sign but it was so cool to meet him even if it wasn’t until I read two or three more books for me to realize how cool it was. I now have my own copy of Redshirts and a first edition of Old Man’s War that I hope to have him sign someday in the future.
This was the first book by Twain that I ever read and I credit it with showing me that not all classics are going to suck. I’ve not read anything else by him but I hope to someday.
There is my list for the week and once again I hope you have a great Thanksgiving!