Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they provide a topic and you are free to use that topic and/or variations of that topic to make your top ten list. You don’t have to do all ten. Instead you can do three, five, fifteen, whatever you want. A full list of the weekly themes can be found here.
This week’s theme is Top Ten Books I Want My Future Children to Read (Or nieces and nephews, Godchildren, etc.). I already have a partial mental list of books I want my daughter to read so this should be fun!
I am going to start off with books I have already specifically picked to read to my daughter over the next few years. Why did I choose these books? The main characters are odd, different, and don’t quite fit with societal norms. They find themselves in extraordinary circumstances and conquer the evil or wrongs that threaten them.
The characters in these books are strong. They are different. And even if they may on occasion not think as much of themselves as they should, they keep trying. These are good literary role models for the young.
In this second group, I’m going with the opposite theme as the first four. These are ones I would discourage my daughter from reading. They feature weak females. Not all of them have the same qualities but in general single mindedness, weak willed, selfish, and materialistic. These are attributes that I don’t want my daughter to adopt.
These last two books are books I would want her to read because they display inner strength of the main female character. Obviously, these two would be for when she is older but I still think that they could be enriching reads. The lead characters show extraordinary prowess and creativity of mind.
Literary Weaponry 
Great choices! 🙂 I can’t believe that I missed Harry Potter from my list! I would totally recommend that book to my nephew.
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I think I would recommend Harry Potter to anyone no matter their age even if it is just to keep them from getting left out of conversations about it. Haha.
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I love what you did here Amanda!! I wouldn’t even have thought to pick ones for my child to AVOID… but I totally agree with those (I despise Red Queen!) YAY for Dealing with Dragons!! A great choice for a girl, I loved those (and totally forgot to include them!)
I love top 10 Tuesday… Here is my post if you’re interested in my choices ❤ https://wp.me/p3LRfZ-7bC
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Honestly, the only reason I thought of books to avoid was because my daughter picked out a book at the library the other day that taught nothing positive. Was one of those “do everything wrong but everyone still forgives you because you are stupid and pretty” stories and I got really angry. Don’t want kids reading/learning that nonsense.
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I totally agree!
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All kids need Harry Potter in their lives. Great list! I like your twist on the topic. I wouldn’t have thought of books to avoid. 50 Shades of Grey would be on that list, though.
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Harry Potter and Percy Jackson were both on my list this week too!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/top-ten-tuesday-133/
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I like that you picked books with strong, unique main characters for your daughter!
Random side note I thought it was funny that you excluded those four books because of weak female characters, yet The Hobbit has no female characters. (Source: https://www.quora.com/Are-there-no-female-characters-at-all-in-The-Hobbit-As-far-as-I-can-recall-there-is-nothing-except-a-brief-mention-of-Bilbos-mother-and-her-sisters-She-is-long-dead-when-the-book-starts-so-she-does-not-count)
I completely agree that The Hobbit is still worth reading! I just thought it was funny.
Plus, I nominated you for the Blogger Recognition Award! Just wanted to let you know: https://perfectlytolerable.com/2017/11/21/blogger-recognition-award/
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I love your choices! Especially ‘Dealing with Dragons’ is such a wonderful book and should be read by everyone 😉
I only ever read the first Twilight novel from your second collection but do agree there! It already did enough damage to young girls, better keep it away….
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