Books you must read
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 by Harper Lee
The Bible
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
All Quiet on the Western Front by E M Remarque
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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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Must add: A Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
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Right, other than Bible, most of the selection is what one would accomplish by the time they graduate college.
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
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.