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Smiling Shelves

Top Ten Tuesday - Neglected Books I Love

3/22/2016

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This weekly frenzy of listing is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
This week's topic is "Ten Books I Really Love But Feel Like I Haven't Talked About Enough/In A While." I feel like I tend to talk about my favorite books over and over, so this is a chance to explore my bookshelves and see what gets neglected. These are books I love but read before I starting blogging, so they haven't gotten any love on Smiling Shelves yet:​
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Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder (This is nonfiction, following one teacher's experience in an inner-city school. I discovered it at a book fair when I was in fifth grade, and I think I can honestly say it was one of the things that was instrumental in inspiring me to become a teacher.)
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart (A true story of finding your niche in Paris by discovering the local piano store. As a pianist and European traveller, this book hit all my sweet spots.)
Sandition by Jane Austen & Another Lady (Sanditon was an unfinished manuscript that Jane Austen left behind when she died. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who have completed it, but the version I love best is by "Another Lady." She truly lives up to Austen's wit and characters.)
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot (While the idea of being a vet kind of grosses me out, Herriot's naive charm and pure British atmosphere is what sells this book. If you want to live in the Yorkshire countryside of 50+ years ago, then you only have to read this series.)
​The Cabinet of Wonders by Marie Rutkoski (I know Marie Rutkoski is quite well-known for her YA series The Winner's Trilogy, but she also wrote a children's series that is fun and awesome and much less well-known.)
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The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence that Points Toward God by Lee Strobel (Apologetics is one of my passions, and Strobel's books provide expert testimony as to why God makes more sense!)
The Once and Future King by T.H. White (The story of King Arthur. One of my all-time favorite books. If you haven't read it, you should! Soon!)
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone (Telling about the life of Michelangelo, this book is historical fiction at its finest.)
Christy by Catherine Marshall (Can you imagine going to teach in the rural areas of the Smoky Mountains one hundred years ago at the age of nineteen? I couldn't, which is probably why this book is so fascinating to me.)
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea (I have a strange obsession with the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the perfect book to feed that obsession.)
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Carrie link
3/22/2016 04:46:51 pm

CHRISTY!! Yes! I need to go back and re-read this one sometime soon. Blissful sigh :) <a href="http://readingismysuperpower.org/2016/03/22/top-ten-tuesday-could-i-have-your-attention-please/">My TTT</a>

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
3/26/2016 08:04:16 pm

It's definitely high on my reread list now, too! :)

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Lois link
3/22/2016 05:18:54 pm

I see some great ones here! I handed my sister Christy recently and she loved it.
I've been meaning to read some James Herriot books. We had a children's book of his growing up that I read but I'd like to read some of his adult books now. :)

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
3/26/2016 08:04:40 pm

James Herriot is awesome. I'm confident you will love his books! :)

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fiddlrts link
3/25/2016 06:22:20 pm

I haven't read The Agony and the Ecstasy, but I have read a couple of other Irving Stone books that were outstanding. First is They Also Ran, about the men who lost the presidential races of the past. The other is Men to Match My Mountains, which is the best book on the founding of California that I have read.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
3/26/2016 08:05:23 pm

Those both sound fascinating. I'm slowly collecting his books, but I haven't run across either of those yet. I'll keep my eye out for them!

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Amy link
3/26/2016 10:12:29 pm

AH THESE ALL LOOK SO GOOD!!!
Excuse me while I revisit my TBR....

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
3/28/2016 08:18:54 pm

I hope you find something you enjoy! :)

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Erin @ Quixotic Magpie link
3/28/2016 09:18:49 am

I love the James Herriot series. It is one of my favorites as well, that I read over and over. I read them when I was really young actually, and they super grossed me out then, but I still liked them. Some of it I didn't even understand at the time - hello, prolapsed uterus? I was like what is a uterus? Lol. Anyway, I liked them so much I just kept reading them, and the older I got, the more I liked them, and now the series is a favorite of mine. :)

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
3/28/2016 08:19:47 pm

I discovered them first in college, but they're definitely a series that I've read over and over. Glad to find another Herriot lover! :)

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