The Museum, Libraries and Archives Council voted on the following books as the ones most chosen in answer to the question:
Which Books Should Every Adult Read Before They Die?
The first book received the most votes and the rest of the titles follow in decreasing order.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee [check catalog]
The Bible [check catalog]
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien [check catalog]
1984 by George Orwell [check catalog]
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens [check catalog]
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte [check catalog]
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen [check catalog]
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque [check catalog]
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman [check catalog]
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks [check catalog]
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck [check catalog]
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding [check catalog]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon [check catalog]
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy [check catalog]
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne [check catalog]
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte [check catalog]
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame [check catalog]
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell [check catalog]
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens [check catalog]
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger [check catalog]
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold [check catalog]
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran [check catalog]
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens [check catalog]
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho [check catalog]
The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov [check catalog]
Life of Pi by Yann Martel [check catalog]
Middlemarch by George Eliot [check catalog]
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver [check catalog]
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess [check catalog]
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Created 7/24/06 from the Unabashed
Librarian, No. 139, Page 13