I was reading the best-seller list in the Sunday paper last week.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and
To Kill a Mockingbird were both on it.
Roll of Thunder was under Children's and
To Kill a Mockingbird was under Paperback Fiction. It seems schools in general are pretty much split between the two. Oh, there are other novels that are chosen (
Lord of the Flies and
Of Mice and Men, for example) but it is these two that made the best-seller list. These that parents all over Ireland rushed out to buy in their droves the last weeks of August and the first few weeks of September.
The list-fellows of
To Kill a Mockingbird are:
One Day (David Nicholls, the film is now playing in cinemas),
The Help (Kathryn Stockett, also now a film, release date 28 October),
The Confession (John Grisham), and
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (chick-lit by Claudia Carroll). Altogether a broad range of titles (also not in order).
Roll of Thunder, by contrast, has not one but two
Diary of a Wimpy Kids as list-fellows. Need I say more?
