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Book awards: Museums, Libraries, and Archives Society's "30 Books Every Adult Should Read Before They Die"

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1
The Bible by Bible2
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien3
1984 by George Orwell4
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens5
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë6
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen7
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks9
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck10
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon11
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy12
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne13
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë14
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame15
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell16
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens17
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger18
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold19
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran20
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens21
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho22
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov23
Life of Pi by Yann Martel24
Middlemarch by George Eliot25
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver26
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn27
Lord of the Flies by William Golding28
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman29
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess30

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