Nine Books For Every Family

So I'm crawling through my bloglines feed from the New York Times (and aren't the Times folks a prolific bunch!) and this article caught my eye. Nice of the president of Chile to think about giving books to the poor families in her country. (I wonder how poor you have to be to qualify as poor in Chile?) However, the article used it as a convenient jumping off point to get their readers to make their own suggestions of which nine books they think should be given (or received, apparently). 131 respondents, so I stopped reading when Harry Potter came up for the third time and no one had yet mentioned To Kill A Mockingbird. Philistines. (pbbtt!!)

Ah, well, what are you gonna do? Then it kind of snuck up on me-- why isn't the the Chilean president making sure that all of her citizens have access to libraries?

Call me a dreamer...