What’s On Your bookshelf?
The best-laid plans of mice and men … can get messed up by travel agents.
if you do not know the original quote, you will not understand why this line might be amusing. Good writers read good writers so they can build upon a foundation, like John steinbeck did by reading poet robert burns for this line. so here is a fairly classic list of what the best-read people have read, and you should encourage your students to read. Why? so if someone asks them for whom the bell tolls, they will know.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm
George Orwell
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
The Giving Tree, The Light in the Attic
Shel Silverstein
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
The Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
The Odyssey
Homer
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Silas Marner
George Eliot
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
