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I’m on an October vacation, so here’s an appropriate blog entry.  Picking your ten favorite books is a little like picking the ten most delicious meals you ever ate.  At least for me.  My brain can completely forget a book, even as it continues to be influenced by the experience of reading it.  Remind me of the title, and my mind gushes with recognition.

So, this is my best stab at it today (I tried to put them in order, but could only get the first one as the best:)

1.     A Christmas Carol – my favorite novel!

2.     Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann – Especially if you are recouperating from an illness.

3.     Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane – Neatest work of genius ever accomplished,

4.     Great Gatsby,

5.     Of Mice and Men,
- Wonderful, foundational classics that, if you somehow missed them in high school, you simply must read, pronto,

6.     Slaughterhouse Five (and just about every other Vonnegut book, )

7.     Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison,

8.     Autobiography of Malcolm X,

9.     Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates – Incredible read,

10.    Accordion Crimes by E. Annie Proulx – I got so carried away that I bought an accordion!