MLA's "30 Books Every Adult Should Read Before They Die"
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Created by Misty on Mar 28, 2006.
SavvyNLady
Mobile
Untitled — 3 years ago
I thought the person was a he although I admit when I wrote this I wanted to add a he/she preference but I didn’t. look, you sound as though you read some of the best, all I want to ask is where is your list? that was this person’s list; tell us what you consider great literature is all I’m saying.
mvcuervo
Oviedo
Recomendation — 3 years ago
The unbearable lightness of being, by Milan Kundera. Not only a book every adult should read, but a great book to be re-read from time to time, since our perception of it will change as we grow up.
Not a very good list — 3 years ago
Come on…
Where is Willa Cather, Proust, Tolstoy, Camus, Thucydides…anybody could make up a better list than this; I mean The Lord of the Rings?—that’s a summer backyard read! How about The Brothers Karamazov?
Mmmph…
cherise
Olympia
Untitled — 3 years ago
i don’t think the Bible should be on here at all. This should be for literature only and not bring religion into the equation.
Untitled — 3 years ago
A good list. The bible is an interesting choice – I’d have swapped it with the book in position 30…
IsntPrettyToThinkSo
Wilmington
Crazy librarians — 3 years ago
Most of these are traditional books, ones that never appeared on the banned list, ones that are good literature but not too metaphysically challenging. Apart from the bible, and if the list is called books to read before you die, then the librarians are just putting it there as a spiritual back up plan. I have read a third of these and while they were all enjoyable, i definitely could’ve died without reading Lord of the Flies and Wind in the Willows.
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