Can you name the books to read before you die as chosen by the Museum, Libraries and Archives Council? by oliverhancock

Author	Book
Harper Lee
Various
JRR Tolkien
George Orwell
Charles Dickens
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Austen
EM Remarque
Phillip Pullman
Sebastian Faulks
John Steinbeck
William Golding
Mark Haddon
Thomas Hardy
AA Milne

Author	Book
Emily Brontë
Kenneth Graham
Margaret Mitchell
Charles Dickens
Audrey Niffenegger
Alice Sebold
Khalil Gibran
Charles Dickens
Paulo Coelho
Mikhail Bulgakov
Yann Martel
George Eliot
Barbara Kingsolver
Anthony Burgess
Alexander Solzenhitsyn

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Books to Read Before You Die Quiz

by oliverhancock

Created Apr 12, 2010 in Literature
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	random_cloud:	Apr 12th, 2010 at 11:13 GMT	0 points
	hi - it's one day in the life of ivan denisovich. i would have got this right otherwise.

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	midwesterndiva:	Apr 12th, 2010 at 17:01 GMT	8 points
	A Christmas Carol is on here, but Tale of Two Cities, Vanity Fair, Slaughterhouse 5, Catch 22, Catcher in the Rye, and Anna Karenina aren't? Christmas Carol is really good, but there are a lot better out there.

	crookshanks:	Apr 12th, 2010 at 18:07 GMT	-3 points
	for the time traveler's wife, traveler only has one L.

	Hugh:	Apr 12th, 2010 at 18:21 GMT	-1 points
	I agree it seems an interesting selection and in reference to previous comments although some of the titles might be wrong, in the author's defence they are spelt as shown in the source. An enjoyable quiz, good job!

	johnlk:	Apr 12th, 2010 at 18:31 GMT	1 point
	Yeah, you should definitely read "The Time Traveler's Wife" before you read the Iliad or the Odyssey. And "A Christmas Carol" ahead of "Bleak House"? Dubious.

	johnlk:	Apr 12th, 2010 at 18:32 GMT	4 points
	And, really, three Dickens novels and no Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? That's silly.

	oliverhancock:	Apr 12th, 2010 at 19:17 GMT	3 points
	Apologies, I did believe the spelling in the source. To be fair, 'traveller' is the British spelling and I'm British.

	melissa:	Apr 12th, 2010 at 21:26 GMT	8 points
	No complaints about the quiz, but the source list seems to be an odd mix of well-known older classics and popular recent books (within the last decade or so), with little in between. Did the folks at the Museum, Libraries, and Archives Council all name either established classics or books they had recently read? Though I enjoyed them too, I doubt that books like "The Lovely Bones" or "Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" will be on a "must read before you die" list in 50 or 100 years.

	RebeccaAMax:	Apr 13th, 2010 at 06:37 GMT	0 points
	Well, now I know whose advice about books I shouldn't take.

	BMurray:	Apr 19th, 2010 at 18:18 GMT	0 points
	This is very nitpick-y, but William Golding's book doesn't begin with "The."

	vmarshall51:	Apr 19th, 2010 at 19:31 GMT	-2 points
	I've only read 11 of these books!

	twomoons:	May 29th, 2010 at 21:10 GMT	-2 points
	you may want to accept the golden compass for his dark materials, its by far the most famous of the series

	CHIPSandGRAVY:	Jun 10th, 2010 at 17:49 GMT	3 points
	Good quiz,but an eclectic list to say the least. Also, I know it's regarded as a classic but I hated reading Tess of the D'urbervilles at school (and any Hardy in general).

	oliverhancock:	Jun 14th, 2010 at 14:08 GMT	1 point
	Golden Compass wasn't on the list, His Dark materials was.

	Plurpoosa:	Jun 16th, 2010 at 22:07 GMT	-4 points
	NO HARRY POTTER???????????????? ARE THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THIS LIST CRAZY????????????????????????

	corndog:	Jul 5th, 2010 at 23:07 GMT	1 point
	The Bible should really be written by "Various" not "Unknown".

	oliverhancock:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 14:41 GMT	2 points
	Who wrote it then?

	dollymix:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 17:37 GMT	0 points
	Weird list, which I guess is the result of doing a straight-up poll. Unbelievable that "Life of Pi" is on here, since it's barely even good.