7.26.2006

Read Before You Die





from the U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D Librarian:

According to a report published in the United Kingdom, the following books were “the ones most chosen in answer to the question, ‘Which book should every adult read before they die?’"
What do you think? Do you agree? Have you read any of these books? Are there others you would add?

The first book listed received the most votes and the rest of the titles follow in decreasing order of votes.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bible
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. 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 Erich Maria Remarque
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip 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 Kahlil 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 BurgessA Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzenhitsyn

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