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The list in full:

* To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Bible

* The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien

* 1984 by George Orwell

* A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

* Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

* All Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque

His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

* The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

* Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy

* Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne

* Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

* The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham

* Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

* Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

* The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

* The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

* The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

* David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

* The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

* A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn

* I've read 19 of the 30 books on the list. And only two of the books I read were as an assignment for a lit class in school - All Quiet on the Western Front and To Kill a Mockingbird - instead of on my own and both of them are still favorites as well as several of the others.