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Radio 4,5 mins

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

World at One

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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

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