MLA's '30 Books Every Adult Should Read Before They Die' (meant for yesterday)

This week has been a big one in Monroe County as the City of Monroeville and the Monroe County Heritage Museums celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
“TKAM,” as it is acronimicably referred to by locals, was written by Monroeville native, Harper Lee.
Several years ago, Britian’s Museum, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) selected “TKAM” as No. 1 on its list of “30 Books Every Adult Should Read Before They Die.” Here’s the complete list:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. The Bible
3. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
4. 1984 by George Orwell
5. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
8. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
9. His Dark Materials by Philip Putnam
10. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
11. The Grapes of Wrath 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’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
15. Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
16. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
17. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
18. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
19. Great Expectations 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 by Charles Dickens
24. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
25. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
26. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
27. Middlemarch by George Eliot
28. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
29. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
30. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In the end, I’d be interested to know how many of these books you’ve read. What did you think about them and which would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.