World Book Day

In 2006 librarians across the country were asked to nominate one book every adult should read before they die.

The Top 30

1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee - READ
2. The Bible
3. The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien - READ
4. 1984, George Orwell - READ
5. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
6. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
7. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen - READ
8. All Quiet on the Western Front, E. M. Remarque
9. His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman - READ
10. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
11. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
12. Lord of the Flies, William Golding - READ
13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
14. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy - READ
15. Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne
16. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
17. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
18. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
19. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens - READ
20. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
21. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
22. The Prophet, Khalil Gibran
23. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
24. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
25. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
26. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
29. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
30. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzenhitsyn

Links and references

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/mar/02/news.michellepauli (Guardian article reproducing the top 30 list)