{"id":9014,"date":"2006-03-06T10:47:36","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T17:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/03\/06\/if-i-should-die-before-i-read.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:08:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:08:59","slug":"if_i_should_die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/06\/if_i_should_die.html","title":{"rendered":"If I should die before I read …"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official librarians’ list of Books Every Adult Should Read Before They Die<\/a>. Actually, it’s British librarians, to be precise, but the poll doesn’t seem to have limited itself to just British adults..<\/p>\n

I’ve bolded<\/strong> the ones I’ve actually read<\/p>\n

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
\nThe Bible<\/strong>
\nThe Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien<\/strong>
\n1984 by George Orwell<\/strong>
\nA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens<\/strong>
\nJane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
\nPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
\nAll Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque
\nHis Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
\nBirdsong by Sebastian Faulks
\nThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck<\/strong>
\nThe Lord of the Flies by William Golding<\/strong>
\nThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
\nTess of the D’urbevilles by Thomas Hardy<\/strong>
\nWinnie the Pooh by AA Milne<\/strong>
\nWuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
\nThe Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
\nGone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
\nGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
\nThe Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
\nThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
\nThe Prophet by Khalil Gibran
\nDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
\nThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
\nThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
\nLife of Pi by Yann Martel
\nMiddlemarch by George Eliot
\nThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
\nA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
\nA Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn<\/small><\/p>\n

Actually, the poll seems to have been question of which one <\/em>book everyone should read, so I don’t think anyone’s suggesting that eveyrone has to read all of them. I think. I hope.<\/p>\n

(via J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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