{"id":8210,"date":"2014-09-17T04:42:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T18:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/?p=8210"},"modified":"2014-09-16T05:21:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T19:21:38","slug":"10-on-the-book-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/10-on-the-book-shelf\/","title":{"rendered":"10 on the Book Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime back <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k_santhi\">Santhi<\/a> had tagged me on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vinitha\">Twitter<\/a> to pick 10 books that stay with me (#10BestBooks). I tried to escape out as I find it really difficult to pick favourites. They keep changing with time and that is one reason why I try not to buy books.<\/p>\n<p>In no particular order, here is my 10<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett<\/li>\n<li>The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Shaffer and Annie Barrows<\/li>\n<li>In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson<\/li>\n<li>The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros<\/li>\n<li>Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver<\/li>\n<li>The Submission by Amy Waldman<\/li>\n<li>Americanah by Chimamanda Adichie<\/li>\n<li>Never Let Me Go by Kazua Ishiguro<\/li>\n<li>Oleander Girl by Chitra Divakaruni<\/li>\n<li>The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/vinithacr\">Goodreads<\/a> account has more on the books I have read and enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime back Santhi had tagged me on Twitter to pick 10 books that stay with me (#10BestBooks). I tried to escape out as I find it really difficult to pick favourites. They keep changing with time and that is one reason why I try not to buy books. In no particular order, here is my 10 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Shaffer and Annie Barrows In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver The Submission by Amy Waldman Americanah by Chimamanda Adichie Never Let Me Go by Kazua Ishiguro Oleander Girl by Chitra Divakaruni The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa My Goodreads account has more on the books I have read and enjoyed. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[15,343,1037,398],"class_list":["post-8210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-blog-tags","tag-book","tag-book-recommendations","tag-book-review"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>10 on the Book Shelf &#8212; PoohsDen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/10-on-the-book-shelf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"10 on the Book Shelf &#8212; PoohsDen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sometime back Santhi had tagged me on Twitter to pick 10 books that stay with me (#10BestBooks). 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