What I Love Wednesday

Our basement flooded (no, that's definitely NOT what I love). My kid has been all out of sorts with the bug bite episode and then we figured out the antibiotics we were giving him to make him better were making him sick. Ugh! Things are just kind of off at our house, but, as we all know, life still has to carry on and we still have to go to work and do laundry and scoop cat litter, etc., etc.

So when all this other crap is going on and it's been raining for a week and everyone is cranky and stressed, what do I love to do? Go to bed with a good book.

 Reading is my quiet time to escape my own thoughts and take time to unwind, relax, forget about all the crap that's going on. I could watch tv for hours and never relax or be able to fall asleep, but a few minutes with a good book and my eyelids and going down.

 Some of my favourite books that I've read are (in no particular order):

The Safari Papers (Totally hilarious. If you can get past the real tragedy of it all)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Gargoyle
The Twilight Saga (Yes, I admit it.)
Candide (I think Voltaire is hilarious)
The Outlander Series (I haven't finished the series but I've really enjoyed the books I've read so far)
Nectar
Club Dumas
The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible (sooooo interesting)
Life of Pi
Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc
A Fine Balance
Density of Souls (this one is really effed up and is written by Anne Rice's son)
Atlas Shrugged (16th longest novel in the English language. Be prepared to spend some time on it)

I know there are more books than that on the top of my bookshelf but I just can't picture them, so there's a little overview.

What's on your top shelf?