Reading Anything Good Lately?

by on March 13, 2006 in Media

I came across this article from the UK-based Guardian Newspaper online. Turns out I might not be as well-read as I thought.

Museum, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) in Britain asked librarians around the country, “Which book should every adult read before they die?” At the top of the list was To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, followed by the Bible and then The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Here’s others – both classics and contemporary fiction – that made the list:

  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • All Quite 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 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 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
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2 Responses to “Reading Anything Good Lately?”

  1. Phil Gerbyshak March 13, 2006 at 8:45 pm # Reply

    Thanks for sharing Chris. I need to get reading too!

  2. Chris Bailey March 14, 2006 at 11:05 am # Reply

    You’re welcome, Phil. Yeah, it kind of wakes you up to the notion that there is so much good literature out there and it’s still being written today (my ex-librarian wife has been nudging me for a few months to read The Time Traveller’s Wife and Life of Pi). Happy reading!

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