Top Ten Books to Be Placed in the Beach Bag

Dedicated to The Broke and the Bookish, this week's theme is Books to Be Placed in the Beach Bag or... better yet: the Reading for Knowledge colbalt blue used tote bag! The pick for the books is the academic reading that prepares me for life and in search for freedom - it's all part of growing up! Since I finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett and Life of Pi by Yann Martel over the last two summers, summer's a best time to read, but I got my picks from the list:

1. Tales of the Otori: Across the Nightningale Floor by Lian Hearn

This is the first out of the total five following the 2007 prequel and sets out the first of the three-parter in feudal Japan in the author's imagination. A lucky guess for reading by the charming start.

2. Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth

Huh?! That's so similar to Girl Rising but far from The Kite Runner.

3. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Based on the true story about the Everest climb from the 1990s.

4. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

I've seen two parts of the trilogy and now they're making one more before the saga's complete. Better read it now Nat (just a note to self).

5. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Another novel written by the same author of Into Thin Air.

6. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

This is one sappy dog story I'm going to read, but the sappy romance story for once is going to be The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks.

7. A Blessing Over Ashes by Adam Fifield

This reminds me of Finding Miracles by Julia Alvarez, except it's more Perks of Being a Wallflower with the memoir type about people escaping to Cambodia and less October Baby.

8. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."

This is the first parter to this trilogy.

9. Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

This is getting familiar with Dreamland by Sarah Dessen that combines with the Seattle element. It's getting more attractive than ever!

10. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Now a major motion picture, you could own it to see all of the epicness going on in this type of dystopia America.

11. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie

Set in the late 1960s in southeastern Nigeria, a moment in modern African history was illuminated with celebration, the promise, hope and effects going on in a war.

That's it, what's your pick for books to be placed in the beach bag with specific themes. Let me know in the comments section below! :)