From those wacky Brits and a link from Fark, a list of books British librarians think you should read:
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'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
Winnie the Pooh by AA 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 Traveller'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
The ones I've read are in italics. Before I looked at the list, I hoped there'd be more of them in italics, but I suppose there are worse scores than 15/31.
But here's the big question: what's missing from that list? I'd say:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (quoted Meaning of Liff a few posts ago and I almost forget HGttG?)
And now that I've finished my supplemental list, I read the Fark comments and discovered all the books I added were also added by Fark commenters, which makes me worry for my immortal soul.
What's missing from your list?
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2 comments:
Oh my GOSH read The Alchemist.
AND Lovely Bones. Although, now with the B around it may be too disturbing for you. BUT SO GOOD.
I don't even want to say how few books from this list I've actually read. It's just embarassing. But I will say I did read Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy and loved it, loved it, loved it. There are forces at work in Hollywood trying slowly, but steadily, to make it into a movie. They're going to gut it of anything that made it good if and when they do, so I can't stress strongly enough -- go read the books.
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