MLA's 30 Books Every Adult Should Read Before They Die (2006)
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| Rank | Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 |
| 2 | The Bible | ||
| 3 | The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1955 |
| 4 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | 1949 |
| 5 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 1843 |
| 6 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 1847 |
| 7 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 |
| 8 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 1929 |
| 9 | His Dark Materials Trilogy | ||
| Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) | Philip Pullman | 1995 | |
| The Subtle Knife | Philip Pullman | 1997 | |
| The Amber Spyglass | Philip Pullman | 2000 | |
| 10 | Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks | 1993 |
| 11 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 |
| 12 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 1954 |
| 13 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | 2003 |
| 14 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | 1891 |
| 15 | Winnie-the-Pooh | A.A. Milne | 1926 |
| 16 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | 1847 |
| 17 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 1908 |
| 18 | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 |
| 19 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 1861 |
| 20 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | 2003 |
| 21 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | 2002 |
| 22 | The Prophet | Khalil Gibran | 1923 |
| 23 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 1850 |
| 24 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | 1988 |
| 25 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 1967 |
| 26 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 2001 |
| 27 | Middlemarch | George Elliot | 1874 |
| 28 | The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | 1998 |
| 29 | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 1962 |
| 30 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 1963 |