so that's what librarians do.
British librarians list books everyone should read before they die (via fark):
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
EVERYONE should read Life of Pi. Go buy it. Open it up. Start reading it. Right. Now.
2 Comments:
i like this list. it's the first of its kind that i've seen that includes books from the past 5 years. so many people have recommended "life of pi." i will. i will go out and buy it and read it. but not right now.
Lord of the Rings?? Pish posh.
Plenty of good books on there, but I have to say, this falls terribly short as a list of books one need read. The article was unclear on the methodology, but it seemed to imply that each librarian picked the one book they felt everyone should read. And if that's the case, there are a lot of bad librarians out there, because there is no way that 80% of these could be considered the most crucial work in the world.
Or maybe it shows that you shouldn't trust the masses, because they'll always get it partially wrong. Better to find one person with the right views and listen to them.
Am I too much of an elitist? You betcha.
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