Book your Top Ten now
World Book Day was originally a quiet but worthy United Nations initiative way back when - 80 years ago, in fact. Now, in an age when marketing departments grab anything going to ramp up product sales (think Booker et al) it's become another till tingler rather than a page turner.
This year Birmingham is using the day to mark the start of its official Year of Reading - and we don't want any of you cynics saying that by definition it's bound to exclude most of the children in local schools.
Go to the iconic (that's my jaundiced little joke - think Eastside etc) libraries section of the Birmingham Council website for tons of useful links if your temperament can stand the slow loading speeds.
Anyway, I thought it would be a good excuse to get another Top Ten list in the blogs (see Michael Mcclean's posting and comments). So here, in no particular order, as seems to be the Post blogger style, is my list. For now. All fiction in my case, although it could be anything you like, but, just like Desert Island Discs, Shakespeare and The Bible are excluded.
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Some of you may notice this is being posted late. World Book Day was actually March 6. I would have done it then, but I was too busy reading.
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