麻豆社 Radio 4 - World at One, 06/01/2015, "I'm not convinced that The Iliad is actually his favourite"

"I'm not convinced that The Iliad is actually his favourite"

Mariella Frostrup and Professor John Mullan debate Mark Zuckerberg's reading list, as he says he wants to read 26 books in a year.

Below are the books they suggested he should read.

Mariella Frostrup:
The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham
The History of the World by Frank Welsh
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Professor John Mullan:
Candide by Voltaire
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Money by Martin Amis
Memorial by Alice Oswald
Emma by Jane Austen

06 January 2015