Penny
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Books to read before you die.I just found this list on The Guardian online - so, which ones have you read? Do you think they all deserve to be on the list? What books would you add to the list of books that must be read before you die??
I've read a few like To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre for school/uni. Wuthering Heights is one of my all time favourite books, and I also love Alice Siebold's 'The Lovely Bones'. I only got half way through The time-travellers wife' before I dropped it though. Strange since its a book everyone else seems to love. I haven't read the rest.
| Quote: | 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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Flakey Sugar Butt
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From that list I have only read The Lord of the Rings trilogy. (I read The Hobbit too but it's not on there ha ha)
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AlexH
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Ive read a couple of them and I must say To Kill A Mockingbird is an excellent book, its very powerful I think.
I really must read 1984 though, it seems like a good book that I have just missed out on.
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Super
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His Dark Materials is fantastic. Im currently on the last book in the trilogy.
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cosmicrichie
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| Flakey Sugar Butt wrote: | | From that list I have only read The Lord of the Rings trilogy. (I read The Hobbit too but it's not on there ha ha) |
I've read the Hobbit, but it was years ago at school. I was in the top set for reading (not really sure why!) and I found it REALLY hard to read, perhaps it was just my age, I was only about 10.
I haven't read the Lord of the Rings though, it doesn't interest me but I do go to see the films. Out of those I've read:
To Kill a Mockingbird (but can't remember anything about it haha)
A Christmas Carol - great book
Winnie the Pooh - naturally!
Great Expectations - again can't remember much, was read in the old days
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
^^the above is a brilliant book. I'm not a great fan of reading but that really interested me. For those that don't know it's about a labour camp, I think during the war (again it was read at school, I might go and buy it actually I liked it that much), and kept my interest throughout. A few of us stuck some paper over the top of Ivan Denisovich and wrote on the paper Goran Ivanisevich (not sure if that‘s spelt right, could google but that‘ll require effort), haha had to be done!
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cosmicrichie
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I'm surprised Animal Farm isn't up there to be honest
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clevelandspur
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Let's see I have read
To Kill a Mockingbird (which I actually enjoyed in school that is saying alot!)
Great Expectations (didn't care for it)
A Christmas Carol (loved it!)
I really didn't read much besides what I was required to read for school but now I am getting back into it a bit. Probably due to the writers strike and not much on tele lol!
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Flakey Sugar Butt
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| cosmicrichie wrote: | | Flakey Sugar Butt wrote: | | From that list I have only read The Lord of the Rings trilogy. (I read The Hobbit too but it's not on there ha ha) |
I've read the Hobbit, but it was years ago at school. I was in the top set for reading (not really sure why!) and I found it REALLY hard to read, perhaps it was just my age, I was only about 10. |
I found The Hobbit and The Rings books quite hard going, still do when I read them again. Considering they were written for children I'm not sure how my two (age 8 and 12-in-2-weeks) would get on with them. I think they'd get fed up and stop reading them. I guess kids reading back then was waaaay different to what it is now.
That said, they are incredible books and I would recommend anyone to give them a go and persevere with them.
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Diane
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^ Out of that list I have only read Pride and Prejudice (ah Mr Darcy  ) although I really would love to read Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" hmm may request that for my birthday!
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cosmicrichie
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| Diane wrote: | | ^ Out of that list I have only read Pride and Prejudice (ah Mr Darcy ) although I really would love to read Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" hmm may request that for my birthday! |
We had to read it in year 8 at school, and then do a bit of coursework on it in year 11, whilst watching about 4 different film/drama/play versions of it, so I'm all Christmas Carolled out 
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Mala
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Let's see, I've read the following books from that list:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Great Expectations
I like reading the classics, occasionally so I've also read Sense and Sensibility, Vanity Fair and Dracula
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Diane
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^ I have read Dracula too! 
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normanRFC
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| cosmicrichie wrote: | | I'm surprised Animal Farm isn't up there to be honest |
Same, I did an essay on that last year... only person in my entire school to get full-marks!
Out of the list... I've only read All Quiet on the Western Front!
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clevelandspur
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I thought Catcher in the Rye would be on the list, pretty much everyone I know was required to read that in school and Bridge to Teribithia
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