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Linda Lenhoff’s Top Ten Books

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Independence Day by Richard Ford

Linda Lenhoff (@LindaLatte) is a reader and novelist. She tells us she can’t bring herself to order the books, so here they are in an unordered list, with her thoughts on some of them.

Independence Day by Richard Ford and Goodbye Without Leaving by Laurie Colwin. These two might fight for first place, but I can’t imagine them not getting along perfectly well.

The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken. This could easily earn two places on my list, but I’ll try to control myself.

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. (If I’d read this book first, I might never have read anything else.)

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. (This is my teen’s fave book, and anything that makes a teen smile repeatedly has got to be in my top ten.)

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. (Now you know this isn’t in order.)

Maus by Art Spiegelman

White Noise by Don DeLillo

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

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Author: Top Ten List Contributor Tags: top ten Category: On Literature, Your Top Ten Books December 8, 2014

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