[SoftballMominVA]

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

List is too full of modern lit - how could a group of BRITISH librarians come up with a list that excluded Shakespeare?

And no, I did not mispell "All QUITE on the Western Front, it was listed that way - good job editors!

[carton253]

Was the Bible tied with to Kill a Mockingbird?

[slackerjack]

Not one book by Nabokov?
Do yourself a favor, pick up his, “The Defense”, “Palefire” or “Laughter in the Dark”. Perfection.

To Kill a Mockingbird? It’s okay if you like one-dimensional, cookie-cutter characters. And a sitcom ending where everything is wrapped up neat as a pin, “Leave it to Beaver” style.

[7thson]

For 7th grade English class, we had to read Wuthering Heights. Not a good book for 7th grade boys, IMO. Never did finish it and it turned me off from gothic novels ever since.

[twigs]

how could a group of BRITISH librarians come up with a list that excluded Shakespeare?

Good question. And I can't believe that Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy are listed. They are dark indeed. Pullman absolutely hates the church and Christianity and uses these books to poison children's minds about them.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Bump for later note taking. ;)

[bolobaby]

Notice how they did have the chestnuts to put any Hemmingway on the list. They’d probably die from testosterone exposure if they even walked into a room with any Hemmingway.

[ReignOfError]

List is too full of modern lit - how could a group of BRITISH librarians come up with a list that excluded Shakespeare?

Which of Shakespeare's novels would you have put on the list?

[Antoninus]

List is too full of modern lit - how could a group of BRITISH librarians come up with a list that excluded Shakespeare?

You're right. It's almost as if nothing worth reading was written before 1850.

[Dont Mention the War]

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

They have GOT to be kidding.

[Verginius Rufus]

Almost all of the titles on the list are by English-speaking authors.

So A Clockwork Orange is greater literature than Crime and Punishment and Winnie the Pooh is greater than War and Peace?

[MarkL]

What? No Harry Potter?!?!?!

Mark