Librarians' "must-read" list

[oruacat2]

The list in full
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

[BOURBON TOWN CAT FAN]

oruacat2 wrote: The list in full
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
I'm surprisedt that the Bible hasn't been replaced with Harry Potter.

[BOURBON TOWN CAT FAN]

oruacat2 wrote: The list in full
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
I'm surprised that the Bible hasn't been replaced with Harry Potter.

[PatioDaddio]

1. Dickens is their fave, with 3 entries! I agree with 2, (Dickens himself is said to have stated that "David Copperfield" was his favorite) but would replace "Great Expectations" with "A Tale of Two Cities".....

and

2. No Billy Shakin' his Spear? wow....that's a partial list, right there.

[Will Lavender]

The Lovely Bones? WTF?

[Terry L. Wildcat]

Mark Twain is my favorite author...I'm surprised he's not on the listl.

[sardiscat]

"Mark Twain is my favorite author...I'm surprised he's not on the listl."

He said things that illiterates believe show he is a racist, so he's not PC enough to make an official list such as this. No Hemingway, Fitzgerald, or Faulkner, either. I think this is the first list of required reading I have ever seen that didn't have Madame Bovary on it.

[EricBigNally]

Great Expectations would be fairly far away from that list if I were in charge... of course, I guess I'd have to read some more of those books to know why they are there as some of them I haven'theard of. At any rate, tale of two cities is much better as already said.
The Harry Potter comment was great...

[Mark Blueblood]

There ya go about opinions:

I've read virtually everything that Dickens has written and "Great Expectations" is my favorite. "A Tale of Two Cities" is actually my least favorite.

Also, personally, I would definitely choose "East of Eden" over "Grapes of Wrath".

And so it goes...

[Terry L. Wildcat]

sardiscat wrote: "Mark Twain is my favorite author...I'm surprised he's not on the listl."

He said things that illiterates believe show he is a racist, so he's not PC enough to make an official list such as this.




Thanks for your observations...his description of the human race in the 1800's was so on the money...if he were alive today he wouldn't be able to get his thoughts down fast enough.