Do you have a favourite book? You probably have at least ten! I've always found that kind of questions hard to answer. Don't you find it shocking when they are interviewing a famous person on the radio and he or she is asked out of the blue what their favourite book is? The interview might be about politics, the environment, art or whatever field the person is involved with. Then, the deep interviewer wants the audience to get closer to the interviewee and starts asking about their favourite food, book, song, movie, you name it. The best thing is that they are always prepared and give the wittiest answers. I try to put myself in a situation like that (as if anyone would ever want to interview me!), and I'm glad I'm nobody, because I would be so dumbfounded I would not know what to say. How can you choose only one!
Anyway, our friend Tony has found this piece of news on the BBC's webpage and I want to share it with you. Click on the link below to read the article and check out the list.
Teachers' favourite 100 books
Have you read any of those books? I have read 9 of the first 20 and I must admit that it includes 3 of my favourite books ever. As I said before it is very hard for me to choose one, but I'm going to try and give you a short list of the books I've enjoyed the most. I'm actually going to give you two lists. One with classic books and another one with modern literature. The order is totally random.
My classics
1.- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
2.- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
3.- The Collector, John Fowles
4.- The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
5.- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
6.- Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
7.- The Assistant, Bernard Malamaud
8.- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
9.- Dangerous Liaisons, F. Laclos
10.- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Great Current Books
1.- American Pastoral, Philip Roth
2.- Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
3.- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
4.- Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
5.- The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
6.- Disgrace, JM Coetzee
7.- The Road, Cormac McCarthy
8.- Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
9.- Empire Falls, Richard Russo
10.- Saturday, Ian McEwan
Do you have any favourite books you would like to share with us?