Books you must read

Posted at March 3, 2006

The Guardian posts the Librarians must-read list, a list of books every adult should read before they die. (And booh to the spell checkers at The Guardian that managed to spell three of the titles wrong).

Let’s run down the list and see how much you score (and post it here):

The list

To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: King James Version, Black Imitation Leather The Bible

The Lord of the Rings (Collector\'s Edition) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien

1984 1984 by George Orwell

A Christmas Carol (Bantam Classic) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Jane Eyre Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front by E M Remarque

His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman

Birdsong : A Novel of Love and War (Vintage International) Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Tess of the d'Urbervilles : A Pure Woman (Modern Library Classics) Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Wind in the Willows (Unabridged Classics) The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham

Gone with the Wind Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Time Traveler\'s Wife The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Lovely Bones: A Novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Prophet The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

David Copperfield (Penguin Popular Classics) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Life of Pi Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) Middlemarch by George Eliot

Poisonwood Bible : A Novel The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Signet Classics (Paperback)) A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn

How many have you read?

I got (only) 12, only counting the ones I have read the whole book (which rules out the Bible for most people). I have “Life of Pi” on my iPod, but it’s number 4 behind a few other new audio books.

How many have you read? Post below!

And more fun: If you were to add only one more book to this list, which one?

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  • c erichsen

    Must add: A Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
    ——-

    Right, other than Bible, most of the selection is what one would accomplish by the time they graduate college.

  • c erichsen

    Must add: A Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
    ——-

    Right, other than Bible, most of the selection is what one would accomplish by the time they graduate college.

  • GM

    Here’s a few more worthy for the list. Lots of criticism I’m afraid…

    Steinbeck, John ; Of mice and men

    Steinbeck, John ; Cannery Row

    The Book of One Thousand and One Nights

    Böll, Heinrich ; Group portrait with a lady

    Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von ; Faust

    Kafka, Franz ; The Trial

    Nietzsche, Friedrich ; Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Freud, Sigmund ; Abriß der Psychoanalyse

    Irving, John ; A prayer for Owen Meany

    Ulysses ; James Joyce

    Asimov, Isaac ; Naked sun

    Hamsun, Knut ; Growth of the soil (Markens grøde)

    Huxley, Aldous ; Brave new world

  • GM

    Here’s a few more worthy for the list. Lots of criticism I’m afraid…

    Steinbeck, John ; Of mice and men

    Steinbeck, John ; Cannery Row

    The Book of One Thousand and One Nights

    Böll, Heinrich ; Group portrait with a lady

    Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von ; Faust

    Kafka, Franz ; The Trial

    Nietzsche, Friedrich ; Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Freud, Sigmund ; Abriß der Psychoanalyse

    Irving, John ; A prayer for Owen Meany

    Ulysses ; James Joyce

    Asimov, Isaac ; Naked sun

    Hamsun, Knut ; Growth of the soil (Markens grøde)

    Huxley, Aldous ; Brave new world

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  • http://www.brilliantdays.com Oyvind

    I’ve crossed off the ones I’ve read at Lists of Bests. If you have an coount, come on over and compare with me.

  • http://www.brilliantdays.com Oyvind

    I’ve crossed off the ones I’ve read at Lists of Bests. If you have an coount, come on over and compare with me.

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