J.K. Rowling's Top Ten List for Children

This list was published in The Royal Society of Literature magazine. It is the top ten books she believes all children should read.

1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
3. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
4. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
5. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. Animal Farm by George Orwell
8. The Tale of Two Bad Mice by Beatrix Potter
9. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
10. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Which ones have you read?

Night

by Elie Wiesel

FROM THE PUBLISHER
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel

Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man’s capacity for inhumanity to man.

Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant
sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

Author Bio: Elie Wiesel is the internationally celebrated author, Nobel laureate, and spokesperson for humanity whose decision to dedicate his life to bearing witness for the Holocaust's martyrs and survivors found its earliest and most enduring voice in Night, his penetrating and profound account of the Nazi death camps. Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, he was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.

Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. He has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America Congressional Gold Medal, the French Legion of Honor, and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University.



Very moving.

A Million Little Pieces

by James Frey

I was reading this just as the huge media coverage occured. Even though he made up certain events in the book, it was still amazing. I really enjoyed it. Read it as a work of fiction if you will, but just read it.

In Her Shoes

by Jennifer Weiner

From the Publisher:

JENNIFER WEINER'S HILARIOUS NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS HEADED FOR THE BIG SCREEN. READ IT NOW — THEN LOOK FOR THE FILM FROM TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX AND THE DIRECTOR OF WONDER BOYS AND L.A. CONFIDENTIAL!
Starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine
Rose is a thirty-year-old attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She's going to start exercising next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses and tell her she's beautiful. Maggie is twenty-eight and drop-dead gorgeous. Although her stardom hasn't progressed past her hip's appearance in a music video, she dreams of fame and fortune. These two sisters claim to have nothing in common but DNA, a childhood tragedy, and a shoe size, but when they're forced into cohabitation, they may just learn that they're more alike than they thought.


It is a really great book. I highly recommend!