> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/mar/02/news.michellepauli

> +) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Got it, great read, thought your comment in the other thread was spot on.

> +) The Bible

Feh. Self contradictory rubbish, doesn't even read well as a fairy tale.

> +) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien

Probably the first multi-volume series i ever read.

> +) 1984 by George Orwell

Read it, comes around once and again on the read list. usually shelved.

> +) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

This was required reading in my household at Christmas time. It isn't anymore.

> +) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

"Sebastian, I've got these matchsticks to arrange." "Oh, I..."

> +) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Never read it.

> +) All Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque

I picked up this book as the prize for my very first RIF program when
I was 8. I liked the cover. I also got a novel-sized book about star
trek. i still have All Quiet. and I still break it out about every two
years. It is one of the greatest books ever written.

> +) His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman

Read it. Wasn't thrilled.

> +) Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Never read it.

> +) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Read it, liked Tortilla Flats and Cannery Row better

> +) The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

This was on the reading list in Sophomore English at my high school. I
read it and loved it. I think the original English film adaptation is
the best.

> +) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
>
> Never ever heard of it (should I be ashamed)?

no, I'm not :-)

> +) Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
>
> Never read it.

Ditto.

> +) Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
>
> Loved it!  And it can be read in an hour or two!  How much easier do you
> want classics to be?!

Loved Pooh. Loved And now we are Six. Read each of the Pooh books to
my children.

> +) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

OH.MY... SO.MELODRAMATIC.MUST.SLASH.WRISTS.

> +) The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
>
> Read it.  Of course I loved it... but I'm not sure if it's a "MUST READ
> BEFORE YOU DIE!"  It's cute... but life altering?  I don't see it.

Haven't read it. Or if I did, I don't remember doing so.

> +) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

A book even longer than the movie. if that is possible.

> +) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

some things can never be unread.
....
some books I've not read.


> +) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

My favorite book. i have owned 7 and lent out six copies of this book
over the years. I have only had one copy returned to me. and that was
because the young lady that I lent it to had assumed that I would want
it back, so she brought it with her on a visit 4 years after borrowing
it.

I now have two copies.

> +) A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn

a very good, very dangerous book. precursor to the Gulag Archipelago.

>
> Having giving it a small amount of thought I would add:
>
> +) "Extraterrestrial Civilizations" by Isaac Asimov.
>
> My favorite book.  Really no other reason.  But it does provide an amazing
> insight into the size of the Universe that we live in and the possibilities
> in it. It's getting more and more out-of-date every year, but I still adore
> this book.
>
> +) "Watership Down" by Richard Adams
>

I am i the only person on Earth to not really like this book?

>
> +) "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" by Robert Fulghum

FEH.

> +) "Dune" by Frank Herbert

good book.

> +) "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
>
> Nah - I'm just shittin' you.  You can definitely die without reading this
> book.  ;^)

w00t!

> +) "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs
>
> This isn't high art or really even classic literature.


> +) "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

+1





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