National Read A Book Day

September 6 is national read a book day.  I'm not sure if you have to read the whole book on September 6 or if part of it counts.  If whole book is counted, then I'm definitely leaning toward The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and Of Mice And Men.

I was interested reading this list of 50 stars favorite books.  For one thing, I like a lot of those books, too!  But also, I had to note that no one had a King title on their lists.  It makes me wonder how connected to mainstream the stars really are.  Or. . . could it be that they like him in secret, but when asked their favorite book, they feel obligated to proclaim their love for Twain and Poe and Dickens.  Hey, wait. . . Dickens wasn't on the list, either!  Go figure.  I mean, Moby Dick. . . seriously Chevy Chase?  We know Chevy is probably reading Creepshow late at night, and admitting the guilty pleasure to no one.

King's work might not be on the list, but his favorite book is.

Here's a sampling of the stars favorites.  I'm choosing to post the ones that I also like the same book!  That way, if I ever meet one of these people, I will have something to talk about.  I haven't read Obama's selection. . . but it is cool to note the presidents favorite book.  If he comes over for dinner, I'll be reading it real quick! 

Jeff Foxworthy, The Bible
Stephen King, Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Natalie Portman, The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Nicole Kidman, The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis
Rue McClanahan, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Alec Baldwin, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Lavar Burton, Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Billy Joel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Bette Midler, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Chevy Chase, Moby Dick Herman Melville
Jerry Lewis, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Rosie O’Donnell, The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Barack Obama, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Sen. John McCain, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

BOOKS I LOVE:

I'm listing here fiction books I think are absolutely wonderful.  No attempt to rank them, though I do consider Pillars of the Earth my favorite non-King book.  I piles of books I love that include biography, apologetics, commentary and theology.

• The Stand, Stephen King
• Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
• Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns
• The Pilgrims Progress, Bunyan
• 1984, George Orwell
• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
• Lucifer's Hammer, Larry Niven
• Sherlock Holmes, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
• This Present Darkness, Frank Peretti
• Of Mice And Men, Steinbeck
• The Grapes Of Wrath, Steinbeck
• Swan Song, Robert Mccammon
• The Hunt For Red October, Tom Clancy
• The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
• The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury
• Night Of The Moonbow, Thomas Tyron
• The Pelican Brief, John Grisham

How about this list, also. . .
I'm not a fan of: Christian Amish novles, Monk novels, the Twilight series, Gone With the Wind, Left Behind series, The Beast Within.

Please post yoru favortie books -- King or non-King.  And if you like, include a second list of books you don't like.