{"id":68,"date":"2009-07-30T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/my-first-top-10-list-top-10-books\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T18:06:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T02:06:07","slug":"my-first-top-10-list-top-10-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/reading\/my-first-top-10-list-top-10-books\/","title":{"rendered":"My first Top 10 List &#8212; Top 10 books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always enjoy reading other people&#8217;s Top 10 lists, and I thought to myself that I&#8217;ve never done one.  Usually I&#8217;m not great at picking favorites, but just for fun I decided I&#8217;d put together a list of ten books that I&#8217;ve thoroughly enjoyed over the past few years, plus a few extra just because I can&#8217;t narrow it down to ten.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye out for some reviews of these books in the future.  I have actually written some for another site I used to run, so over the next week or two I&#8217;ll try to get a couple posted up here.  Also, for a list of all the books I&#8217;ve read over the past couple years, <a href=\"\/reading.php\">take a look over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my list (in no particular order).  What are some of your favorites?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shantaram &#8211; Gregory David Roberts<\/li>\n<li>Dharma Bums &#8211; Jack Kerouac<\/li>\n<li>The Sun Also Rises &#8211; Ernest Hemingway<\/li>\n<li>Siddhartha &#8211; Hermann Hesse<\/li>\n<li>The Alchemist &#8211; Paulo Coelho<\/li>\n<li>A Farewell to Arms &#8211; Ernest Hemingway<\/li>\n<li>Crime and Punishment &#8211; Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/li>\n<li>The Beach &#8211; Alex Garland<\/li>\n<li>Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen &#8211; Chris McDougall<\/li>\n<li>A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail &#8211; Bill Bryson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And some runners up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Life of Pi &#8211; Yann Martel<\/li>\n<li>Eat, Pray, Love &#8211; Elizabeth Gilbert<\/li>\n<li>On the Road &#8211; Jack Kerouac<\/li>\n<li>Into the Wild &#8211; Jon Krakaur<\/li>\n<li>Veronika Decides to Die &#8211; Paulo Coelho<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To see what I&#8217;m currently reading and have read recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/shop\/reading.php\">take a look over here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always enjoy reading other people&#8217;s Top 10 lists, and I thought to myself that I&#8217;ve never done one.  Usually I&#8217;m not great at picking favorites, but just for fun I decided I&#8217;d put together a list of ten books that I&#8217;ve thoroughly enjoyed over the past few years, plus a few extra just because I can&#8217;t narrow it down to ten.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye out for some reviews of these books in the future.  I have actually written some for another site I used to run, so over the next week or two I&#8217;ll try to get a couple posted up here.  Also, for a list of all the books I&#8217;ve read over the past couple years, take a look over here.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my list (in no particular order).  What are some of your favorites?<\/p>\n<p>Shantaram &#8211; Gregory David Roberts<br \/>\nDharma Bums &#8211; Jack Kerouac<br \/>\nThe Sun Also Rises [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/reading\/my-first-top-10-list-top-10-books\/\" style=\"font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><br \/>[<span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:.9em;\">links and styling have been removed in the excerpt, read more to see complete content<\/span>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[49,28,237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}