The 30 books listed below are the ones that topped a World Book Day poll conducted by the Museum, Libraries and Archives Council in Great Britain, in which librarians around the country were asked the question, "Which book should every adult read before they die?"
Let's see what this future librarian has already read.
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2. The Bible
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5. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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9. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
10. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
11. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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14. Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
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17. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham (waiting on my bookshelf)
18. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
19. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (waiting on my bookshelf)
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23. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (waiting on my bookshelf)
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25. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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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
14 out of 30. Not too shabby, I should say. Still there are a lot of good books to be read, both on the list and outside it. How did you do?
5 comments:
12 out of 30.
Not too bad for a pharmacist.
Not bad at all :-) Librarians get very happy when non-librarians enjoy reading fiction :-)
I'm 12 too; i've seen one in the form of a film and have read another book by Sebastian Faulks. Am i the only person who hasn't read 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
I'm sure you're not, Anji. They made us read it in school and I'm actually glad they did. If you ever get some time to spare, do read it.
Go for "Grapes of Wrath" next, okay?
Ruth~
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