Aunty Beeb Doesn’t Think You Read EnoughFrom a Facebook note: Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read an excerpt. [...] |
Banned BooksEvery year, the American Library Association (ALA) hosts Banned Books Week, to bring attention to censorship and some of the amazing books that are often its victim. We know I like lists by now, right? I like lists. Below is a list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books from 1990-2000. Scary Stories (Series) by [...] |
BBC Big ReadIn 2003 the BBC took a survey of “the nation’s best-loved novel”, and wound up with a list of beloved books. Lets take a look-see… BBC Big Read 1-200 1.The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien (Choked and died 100 pgs in) 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (Lovely) 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman [...] |
1001 Books You Must Read Before You DieI wasn’t going to bother with this list after I saw it, since I haven’t even heard of a large portion of them. So I’m just going to link to a copy of the full list and post the ones I HAVE reada which will be a much shorter list. The list comes from the [...] |
30 Books To Read Before You DieA survey of British librarians has turned up this list. I’m not doing so well, really. But I’ll go through the list and point out what I have read, what I already have waiting on my shelf to be read, and what I really wasn’t ever planning on trying to read. From http://wordwing.com/content/view/55/88/The Top 30 [...] |






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