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brigdhNPR is holding a poll to find the "100 Best Beach Books Ever". You can vote here for your top 10, but today is the last day for voting.
Here is the list of the 200 finalists. I chose my votes based on 1) I've actually read it, 2) I liked it, and 3) it is a 'beach read'*. My ten were:
Affinity, by Sarah Waters
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Brothers Karamazov by Feodor Dostyevsky**
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Lamb by Christopher Moore
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Stand by Stephen King
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Tell me what you voted for! Tell me what I should have voted for (mostly because I haven't read them, although there are several there that I have in fact read, but loathed).
*Come on, people, why is War and Peace even on this list?
**I know, I know, this seems as bad as War and Peace. But in my defense, I did actually read it on a cruise. Although I read War and Peace in a desert in Syria, so, um, I suppose I should stop complaining about other people's choices.
Here is the list of the 200 finalists. I chose my votes based on 1) I've actually read it, 2) I liked it, and 3) it is a 'beach read'*. My ten were:
Affinity, by Sarah Waters
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Brothers Karamazov by Feodor Dostyevsky**
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Lamb by Christopher Moore
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Stand by Stephen King
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Tell me what you voted for! Tell me what I should have voted for (mostly because I haven't read them, although there are several there that I have in fact read, but loathed).
*Come on, people, why is War and Peace even on this list?
**I know, I know, this seems as bad as War and Peace. But in my defense, I did actually read it on a cruise. Although I read War and Peace in a desert in Syria, so, um, I suppose I should stop complaining about other people's choices.
