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MLA's "30 Books Every Adult Should Read Before They Die"

(found at: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1721526,00.html)
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
  
2.
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 The Bible
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3. The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
4. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
  
5. A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
  
6. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
7. Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
8. All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
  
9.
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 His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman
  
10. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
by Sebastian Faulks
  
11. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
12. Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
  
13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
  
14. Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Bantam Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
  
15. Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
by A. A. Milne
  
16. Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
by Emily Bronte
  
17. The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
  
18. Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
19. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
20. The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
  
21. The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
  
22.
?
 The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
  
23. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
24. The Alchemist (Plus)
by Paulo Coelho
  
25. The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
  
26. Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
  
27. Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
  
28. The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club)
by Barbara Kingsolver
  
29. A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
  
30. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Signet Classics)
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  
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Created by Misty on Mar 28, 2006.