What are YOUR bookshelf must haves........? I need educating........................

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Exactly what it says in the title.....

Im not an ardent book reader, but want to start reading the 'classics'(and DD who will be 3 soon loves her books already).

I have read:
Alison in Wonderland,
Wuthering Heights,
The Hobbit,
Jane Eyre,
Of Mice and Men,
Romeo & Juliette,
A Midsummer Nights Dream

Most of these at school - read Midsummer Nights Dream in years 8, 9 and 10 at school - they didnt seem to think it mattered...

What do think i should add to my list? For adults and children.

More suggestions for your daughter:-
Flambards series(well a girl has to have some pony books!)
Charles and Mary Lamb kiddie version of shakespeare stories ?Tales from Shakespeare
Anne of Green Gables
Alan Garner books (especially Elidor and Owl Service)

I love everything by Primo Levi, V S Naipul and A day in the life of Ivan Denosvich by Solyshentizin (sp) - has the advantage of being super slender so you can read in one sitting.

A good modern read is The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver - a semi auto biographical tale of growing up in an African mission.

1984, Animal Farm - George Orwell - must reads
To kill a mockingbird

Ooh yes, any really good modern stuff is good too.

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I have been offline for a few days.... Here are some boys books/authors:

Pat Barker, Regeneration Trilogy
Julian Barnes
AS Byatt, Possession
Peter Carey
Bruce Chatwin
Roddy Doyle
Lawrence Durrell, Alexandria Quartet
William Goldin
Graham Greene
Thomas Hardy
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
Primo Levi
Ian McEwan
John McGahern
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Brian Moore
Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey-Maturin series
Anthony Powell, A Dance to the music of time
Graham Swift
Evelyn Waugh

Beetlejuice, you've reminded me of the Just William stories too, which I used to love love love

oooh thanks for that CK.

Paul Theroux (for travel books), daddy to Louis Theroux.
Madame Bovary.
Zola - say Germinal
All Quiet on the Western Front by Karl Maria Remarque

Redmond O'Hanlon - In Trouble Again
Eric Newby - Love and War in the Apennines
Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals (CK reminded me with a mention of big brother Larry)
How could I have forgotten Gabriel Garcia Marquez!
Albert Camus: The Plague

brilliatn

thanks marina I have been meaning to read that eric newby book for ages