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Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

This week's top 10 list is:  Top Ten Books that Tackle Tough Issues

1.) Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
2.) Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
3.) My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Even though I didn't like the ending, I thought it tackled some really difficult issues)
4.) Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
5.) Columbine by Dave Cullen
6.) We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
7.) These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf
8.) Room by Emma Donoghue
9.) Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall
10.) Generation Kill by Evan Wright

What's on your list?
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  1. Laura (All the Word's a Page)July 26, 2011 at 9:50 AM

    Great list! I chose Wintergirls too. I liked how you chose Columbine rather than Hate List or Nineteen Minutes, not as people know about it.

    Here's my list: http://bit.ly/qJiozA

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  2. MarceJuly 26, 2011 at 3:22 PM

    You should read HeatherG's Weight of Silence also if you liked this one.

    Interesting list.

    My Top Ten

    http://teawithmarce.blogspot.com/2011/07/top-ten-books-that-tackle-tough-issues.html

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  3. AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 4:17 PM

    I knew Speak and My Sister's Keeper would be on lots of lists, but I've read neither.

    Here's mine:
    http://abookandashortlatte.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/top-ten-tuesday-2/

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  4. KristinCanReadJuly 26, 2011 at 4:58 PM

    Great list. MyTeaser Tuesday!

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  5. Lark AndreaJuly 26, 2011 at 7:14 PM

    We also had Speak and Wintergirls on our list.

    Reading Lark's Top 10

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  6. ErikaJuly 27, 2011 at 11:55 AM

    Great list! I opted of other Holocaust books but Sarah's Key is definitely a great book to add to this list.

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  7. Laura @ The Shabby RabbitJuly 28, 2011 at 8:52 PM

    You've put together a great list! Sarah's Key was a good book! My daughter read Speak and was very moved by it!

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  8. Lindsay Cummings authorJuly 28, 2011 at 10:27 PM

    hey! i follow you on GFC! love your blog! hope you will follow me =] I have a giveaway going on right now!

    http://lindsaycummingsblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/giveaway-follow-fridayblog-hop.html

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