My 10 favorite literature classics

Every book lover knows that it is unfair to ask another book lover for their favorites list. Favorites change from moment-to-moment and mood-to-mood. I've listed my favorites of the moment below. Care to share yours?

My top ten...for now!

Favorites change with the weather, but here is a fairly steady list of my most loved novels of all time.

1. The Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison

2. The Old Man and The Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

3. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

4. Kindred, by Octavia Butler

5. Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945, ed. by Michael Harper and Anthony Walton

6. Their Eyes Are Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston

7. Night, by Elie Wiesel

8. Jubilee, by Margaret Walker

9. Ragtime, by E.L. Doctorow

10. Beloved, Jazz, The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, by Toni Morrison (I know. Cheating.)