The British Librarians Have Spoken (Quietly Of Course)
The Museum, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) in
Here's the list! The American classic, To Kill A Mockingbird, beats out the Bible, and surprisingly, a slew of books by many beloved British writers (Tolkien and Orwell, Dickens, Bronte, and Austen.)
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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 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 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
posted by GT Foodies @ 1:39 PM
4 Comments:
I'm so happy that Jane Eyre is in the top ten (even beating out P&P!), my man Dickens got the most entries, Middlemarch is in the top 30 (though it should be much much higher), and the Da Vinci Code got snubbed. It wouldn't be my list, but it's semi-respectable (though what's with Gone With the Wind?). Would our esteemed blogger deign to post her top ten or thirty?
I hated Wind in the Willows ...
The Alchemist is on the list???
Gone with the Wind was actually pretty good ...
I admit "Gone With the Wind" is a sinfully enjoyable book to read--Scarlett O' Hara is an immortal character--but ideologically it's quite repulsive.
Oh, and shame on the Guardian..."Tess of the D'Urbervilles" has 2 'r's.
I never read Wind in the Willows, but for some reason, Singaporean television would air a very boring claymation version of Wind in the Willows.
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