Top Ten Tuesday is a meme run by The Broke and the Bookish
Topic: Books that started or ended just perfectly or with a bang OR you can do specific opening lines or last lines — however you want to do it!
Rose’s and Julie’s Top Ten 
- Dragonfly In Amber by Diana Gabaldon – Ending- “‘He meant to die on Culloden Field,’ Roger whispered. ‘But he didn’t.'”
- The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay – Ending (last two words)- “‘Your garage.'” Best ending ever!!!!!!
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – Beginning- “Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.” and Ending- “‘After all, tomorrow is another day.'”
- Easy by Tammara Webber – Ending- “‘Choosing to be with you isn’t a difficult decision, Jacqueline,’ he breathed, pulling back one final time to stare into my eyes. ‘It’s easy. Incredibly easy.'”
- Red-Headed Stepchild by Jaye Wells – Beginning- “Digging graves is hell on a manicure, but I was taught good vampires clean up after every meal.”
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton- Beginning (it is the exact same sentence as the movie!!!) -“When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.”
- The Fault In Our Stars by John Green- Beginning- “Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.” and Ending (I know, I know, but it is the last two words that I love the most!!!!)- “I do.”
- The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank- Ending (Seems morbid perhaps, but really, read the last entry. Beautiful!)- “I can’t keep that up: If I’m watched to that extent, I start by getting snappy, then unhappy, and finally I twist my heart around again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, if… there weren’t any other people living in the world.”
- The Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger- Beginning- “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, If you want to know the truth.” Incidentally, the opening line of David Copperfield, (which curiously enough is featured in Gone With the Wind when it is read by Melanie [stupid, silly Melanie]) is: “Chapter one: I am born”. Book world is a small world.
- Stolen: A Letter to My Captor by Lucy Christopher- Beginning (gave me chills)- You saw me before I saw you. (this entire book is written in 2nd person, unique!!
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Ironic that 3 of the books on your list are books I just bought this week!! The Sea of Tranquility, Easy, and Stolen!!
Wow, then you are in for a treat! All three are awesome stories… If I had to suggest in which order to read them, I would say, read Stolen first… and then take a breather because the 2nd person is strange. I started writing like that in my own stuff by mistake. Then I would probably read Easy next and then Sea of T. I wish I were you and got to read these again for the first time. happy reading!!!
The Sea of Tranquility is HIGH on my must get now books! Great list 🙂
Here’s my TTT!