Twitter as Blog Topic Generator: #top25books

I've been spending so much time on twitter lately that I almost automatically add # and RT before writing, but it's so worth it. I have met an amazing community of writers and teachers there and today a couple of twitterlits (twitter people who love literature) started a conversation about their top 25 books. If you haven't explored twitter, just search for #top25books and you'll get a glimpse into the way dialogue on twitter can work. Anyway, here is the list I came up with and I'm sure (like the twitter conversation) you'll have lots of titles to add and comment about. Do it. Comments on blogs make them worthy.  And if you join twitter, let me know! I'm writersgrind and these are my #top25books ~in no particular order.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje

Billy by Albert French

Blu's Hanging by Lois Ann Yamanaka

Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers by Lois Ann Yamanaka

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Native Son by Richard Wright

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Push by Sapphire

Drown by Junot Diaz

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery