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I suppose this is largely for my own records, but eh, you lot can see it as well.
Early in 2006, some British librarians got together and made a list of 30 books every adult should read before dying. Article here.
The list, with books I HAVE NOT read in bold:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bible
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell (um, to be honest, I scanned it. I meant to read it, but I ran out of time)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (haven't actually read this, per se...)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (I'm probably the only girl ever to get bored with this book 100 pages in)
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 (*shudder* I scanned this book, too, but I hated what I scanned)
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 (I think I read this when I was little?)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Read the first chapter and hated it.)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (According to my high school English teacher senior year, I read this, because I got an A in the unit. But just between us, I never finished it. Wanted to, though.)
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
Early in 2006, some British librarians got together and made a list of 30 books every adult should read before dying. Article here.
The list, with books I HAVE NOT read in bold:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bible
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell (um, to be honest, I scanned it. I meant to read it, but I ran out of time)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (haven't actually read this, per se...)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (I'm probably the only girl ever to get bored with this book 100 pages in)
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 (*shudder* I scanned this book, too, but I hated what I scanned)
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 (I think I read this when I was little?)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Read the first chapter and hated it.)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (According to my high school English teacher senior year, I read this, because I got an A in the unit. But just between us, I never finished it. Wanted to, though.)
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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Date: 2007-01-19 05:54 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-01-19 06:20 am (UTC)From:Lord of the Flies, on the other hand, was fantastic. Dark and freaky and really good.
I love book lists because they're always a reflection of who made them. I posted this one because I realized I'd read a number of the books on it, which I figured must reflect on me in some way. Especially since some of them are some of my favorite books. The Lovely Bones, for instance, and His Dark Materials (or at least the first book), I found particularly good.
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Date: 2007-01-19 06:38 pm (UTC)From:And as far as Great Expectations goes.... Ditto. Although I don't think I got an A in the unit. My Mind Map kicked ass though. And I also still want to finish it, heck, I even bought a copy. I think I'm stuck at the same place I was Senior year lol.
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Date: 2007-01-19 06:46 pm (UTC)From:I don't own Great Expectations... but someday maybe I'll borrow it or something and read the whole thing. I think I really only read, like, the first two chapters. Damn yearbook! I didn't read ANYTHING I was supposed to senior year!
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Date: 2007-01-19 06:54 pm (UTC)From:Hmm... I'll have to check it out. And I definitely need to do more reading.
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Date: 2007-01-19 06:55 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-01-19 06:58 pm (UTC)From:Yeah, I vaguely remember spending christmas break... where else? in the yearbook room. Even over break I didn't have time for break.
Oh well. College was 1000 times better than high school, and grad school is at least 100 times better than college. Especially since I don't have to take English classes anymore (I loved Mrs. Vaughn, don't get me wrong, but I'm soooo glad to be done with general education requirements).