Books to read

From Sarcasmo.

The Guardian has done it again: they've compiled a list of books British librarians think we all should read before we die.

The ones I've read I've bolded. The ones I want to read I've left alone. The ones you'll never catch me reading are lined out.

The list in full:

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bible (a great deal of it)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (multiple times)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
All Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque (love this book)
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (never heard of it)
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 (all but the last 50 pages of so)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran (this is in our powder room)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (I don't think I've read it...)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (never heard of it)
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