2010-12-02T14:58:12Ztag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/book-listtag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/656/28602010-12-02T14:58:12ZSursumCorda<p>It makes more sense now that I know it was originally a list of people's favorite books. As a list of best books or books we should read to be considered educated it seemed a bit odd.</p>tag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/656/28592010-11-30T14:27:57Zjondaley<p>Fixed. Thanks.</p>tag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/656/28582010-11-30T13:19:11Zdstb<p>Link for &quot;bbc list explanation&quot; is not working. (or didn't work for me).</p> <p>S</p>tag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/656/28572010-11-29T13:58:33Zjondaley<p>So it turns out the &quot;most people have only 6 read&quot; part is fake. And the original list from the bbc (in 2003) was created from user input based on favorite books. <a href="http://kith.org/journals/jed/2010/11/28/13453.html" rel="nofollow noopener">bbc list explanation</a></p>tag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/656/28562010-11-29T12:19:55ZAP²<p>But what is the list supposed to be? The most read books? The best books?</p> <p>I mean, Harry Potter books are entertaining, but hardly good enough to be in a list like that.</p> <p>The Earthsea series by Ursula Le Guin are much better, in my opinion.</p> <p>And in the same vein of The Little Prince (supposedly children stories but that are actually universal), everyone should read the Story Of A Seagull And The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly by Luis Sepúlveda.</p> <p>By the way, I've read 10 of that list already, which is OK considering I'm 21 :)</p>tag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/656/28552010-11-28T22:14:06Zdstb<p>1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen</p> <p>3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (reading now)</p> <p>5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee</p> <p>10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (high school)</p> <p>16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien</p> <p>19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger</p> <p>22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald (high school)</p> <p>29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll</p> <p>36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis (included by #33...)</p> <p>37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini</p> <p>40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne</p> <p>41 Animal Farm – George Orwell (later this school year)</p> <p>42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown</p> <p>49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding (high school)</p> <p>56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon</p> <p>59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon</p> <p>64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold</p> <p>71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens</p> <p>74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson</p> <p>77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome</p> <p>87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White</p> <p>88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom</p> <p>94 Watership Down – Richard Adams</p> <p>99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl</p> <p>Well, I am making progress.</p> <p>S</p>