From 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. [...]

Every 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 [...]

In 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 [...]

I 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 [...]

A 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 [...]