I stole this top ten list idea from Danielle at A Work in Progress. My mother always said, when there's a fire, everyone grab the photo albums. Well, these are the top ten books I'd save from a fire...in order.

1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
3. Volume 1 of Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7, The Idiot by Fydor Dostoevsky
7. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
8. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
9. A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
10. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison