BBC Radio 4's Any Questions was recorded at OLA yesterday. One of my questions - The Times Educational Supplement today [5 April] lists the top 100 favourite books by 500 teachers. What are the panel's favourite reads? - was selected! But the programme ran out of time before I could ask it. I had prepared my own choices in case I was asked the question and here they are:
Books I re-read every few years: E.M. Forster's A Room with a View, Jospeh Heller's Catch 22, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
Children's books: J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Louis Sachar's Holes, Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful and a new best book, one recently shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, Sally Gardner's Maggot Moon.
Reading group recommendations: Henry James' Washington Square, Ian McEwan's Atonement and the recent children's book by R.J.Palacio, Wonder.
At the OLA Reading Festival in September Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games was by far the most popular title.
