Musing Monday (April 19)

Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about the ‘best’ books'.

Last week I had you all to suggest your top 5 books – and I was surprised by just how different all your choices were! There’s no real question this week, except to look over the list and consider it. Do you agree with the choices? Is it more worth of a “Best Book” title?

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your opinion in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks.

Books that had more than one vote were listed first, then they were listed alphabetically by author.

To Kill a Mockingbird	Lee, Harper	6
Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	3
The Chronicles of Narnia	Lewis, C.S.	3
The Time Traveler's Wife	Niffenegger, Audrey	3
Harry Potter (series)	Rowling, J.K.	3
The Book Thief	Zusak, Markus	3
Little Women	Alcott, Louisa May	2
Hunger Games (series)	Collins, Suzanne	2
The Shining	King, Stephen	2
Anne of Green Gables	Montgomery, L.M.	2
Lord of the Rings	Tolkien, J.R.R.	2
The House of the Spirits	Allende, Isabel
Sense and Sensibility	Austen, Jane
Hasse Simondochter	Beckman, Thea
The Manual of Detection	Berry, Jedediah
The Moon Below	Bickmore, Barbara
Fahrenheit 451	Bradbury, Ray
Jane Eyre	Bronte, Charlotte
Arthur (series)	Brown, Marc
A Scandalous Freedom	Brown, Steve
Cold Saddy Tree	Burns, Olive Ann
Enders Game	Card, Orson Scott
Gifted Hands	Carson with Cecil Murphey, Dr. Ben
Kushiel's Dart	Carey, Jacqueline
Graceling	Cashore, Kristen
Death Comes for the Archbishop	Cather, Willa
The Canterbury Tales	Chaucer, Geoffrey
Seventeenth Summer	Daly, Maureen
The Maze Runner	Dashner, James
Loose Change	Davidson, Sara
Life is So Good	Dawson, George
Libra	DeLillio, Don
Great Expectations	Dickens, Charles
Going Too Far	Echols, Jennifer
Invisible Man	Ellison, Ralph
Middlesex	Eugenides, Jeffrey
One for the Money	Evanovich, Janet
The Great Gatsby	Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Likeness	French, Tana
Outlander	Gabaldon, Diana
American Gods	Gaiman, Neil
Memoirs of Cleopatra	George, Margaret
Old Yeller	Gipson, Fred
Lord of the Flies	Golding, William
An Abundance of Katherines	Green, John
Looking for Alaska	Green, John
Paper Towns	Green, John
The Boleyn Inheritance	Gregory, Philipa
The Eden Diet	Hancock, M.D., Rita
An Eye for an Eye	Hannon, Irene
Switch	Heath and Dan Health, Chip
Catch-22	Heller, Joseph
Losing the Moon	Henry, Patti Callahan
Goblin Quest	Hines, Jim C.
Never Let Me Go	Ishiguro, Kazuo
Fire and Hemlock	Jones, Diana Wynne
The Phantom Tollbooth	Juster, Norman
Nancy Drew (series)	Keene, Carolyn B.
Mountains Beyond Mountains	Kidder, Tracy
The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Kundera, Milan
She's Come Undone	Lamb, Wally
The Girl Who Played with Fire	Larsson, Stieg
The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo	Larsson, Stieg
Devil's Bride	Laurens, Stephanie
Shutter Island	Lehane, Dennis
Shoot the moon	Letts, Billie
Dare to Dream	Littauer, Florence
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks	Lockart, E.
The Light Princess	MacDonald, George
16 Lighthouse Road	Macomber, Debbie
Daughter of the Forest	Marillier, Juliet
Son of Shadows	Marillier, Juliet
The Necklace (series)	Martin, Kay
Esther: It's Tough Being a Woman	Moore, Beth
Sula	Morrison, Toni
The Forgotten Garden	Morton, Kate
Mozart's Sister	Moster, Nancy
Cat on the Edge	Murphey, Shirley Rousseau
The Last Surgeon	Palmer, Michael
First to Die	Patterson, James
Sunday at Tiffany's	Patterson, James
The Adoration of Jenna Fox	Pearson, Mary E.
Life as We Knew It	Pfeffer, Susan
Boneshaker	Priest, Cherie
His Dark Materials (series)	Pullman, Philip
The Lightning Thief	Riordan, Rick
Ride the Wind	Robson, Lucia St. Clair
The Sparrow	Russell, Mary Doria
The Forest of Hands and Feet	Ryan, Carrie
Once an Arafat Man	Saada, Tass
Walk Away the Pounds	Sansone, Leslie
Romeo and Juliet	Shakespeare, William
Frankenstein	Shelley, Mary
Beneath a Marble Sky	Shors, John
The Corner	Simon, David
I Capture the Castle	Smith, Dodie
The Changeling	Snyder, Zilpha Keatly
Raven Stole the Moon	Stein, Garth
East of Eden	Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John
Shiver	Stiefvater, Maggie
The Help	Stockett, Kathryn
These Granite Islands	Stonich, Sarah
The Hobbit	Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Thief	Turner, Megan Whalen
It's All Too Much	Walsh, Peter
Tipping the Velvet	Waters, Sarah
Brideshead Revisted	Waugh, Evelyn
Uglies	Westerfield, Scott
A Certain Slant of Light	Whitcomb, Laura
To the Lighthouse	Woolf, Virginia
My Enemy's Cradle	Young, Sara
The Pigman	Zindel, Paul