Books that are remembered. Any on your list?
by Kitty Griffin
Facebook recently conducted
a survey on “Books that have stayed with us.” They received over 130,000
responses.
Here are the top 20 books.
Please note how many of them are children’s books. Note how many were required
reading in high school.
To
Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The
Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Pride
and Prejudice by Jane Austin
The
Holy Bible
The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The
Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
The
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The
Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
The
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1984
by George Orwell
Little
Women by Louisa May Alcott
Jane
Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The
Stand by Stephen King
Gone
with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
A
Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The
Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
The
Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
So what surprises you? I was surprised at number one being Harry Potter. I was also surprised to see Hunger Games, a book that's fairly recent, on the list.
If you were to go into space and you could only take ten books, would any of these be on your list?
How many have you read?
Hitchhiker isn't my genre--and I admit never doing more than skim Deuteronomy and some of the Prophets.
ReplyDeleteOther books that stick with me--I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith); Lolita (Nabakov); In This House of Brede (Godden); and (because I can never get tired of experiencing its perfect voice, pace, concept, and structure) Rosemary's Baby (Levin).