Friday, July 07, 2006

30 Books to read before I die...maybe...

On Kristi's blog I saw that WordWing compiled a list of books by asking librarians across the country what you should read before you die. How do you stack up?
  1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  2. The Bible (by God!)
  3. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
  4. 1984 by George Orwell
  5. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  8. All Quiet on the Western Front by E M Remarque
  9. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
  10. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
  11. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  12. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  14. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  15. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
  16. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  17. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
  18. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  19. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  20. The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  21. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  22. The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
  23. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  24. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  25. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  26. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  27. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  28. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  29. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  30. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn

Here's a weird little Jenna tidbit...in high school they used to give us summer reading lists and we had to pick two or three...I'd try and read the whole list. Hence why I've been through most of the classics, and few of the newer releases. How about you?

2 comments:

Julie S said...

I think I've read about 13 on the list...favorites include 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice.

I was surprised that I never even heard of a few on the list.

And where was Just one Spark?

Unknown said...

We should do a top 30 romances you have to read! And put our books on it :D