http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1721526,00.html
It was published over 40 years ago and its American author
has lived as a virtual recluse ever since, but according
to Britain's librarians, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird
is the book that everyone should read.
The Pulitzer prize-winning classic has topped a World Book
Day poll conducted by the Museum, Libraries and Archives
Council (MLA), in which librarians around the country were
asked the question, "Which book should every adult read before
they die?" The book, which has been a staple of schoolroom
reading lists for many years, also came second in another
poll released today on our favourite happy endings. It
explores issues of race and class in 1930s deep south
America, through the dramatic court case of a black man
charged with the rape of white girl.......
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
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