THE 100 FAVORITE NOVELS OF LIBRARIANS

THE 100 FAVORITE NOVELS OF LIBRARIANS
Based on a survey conducted by Brodart Co., September, 1998 - March, 1999

* CABs Read
** CABs Seen Movie Only

1. Pride and Prejudice*
Austen
2. To Kill a Mockingbird*
Lee
3. Jane Eyre*
Bronte
4. Gone with the Wind*
Mitchell
5. Lord of the Rings
Tolkien
6. The Catcher in the Rye*
Salinger
7. Little Women *
Alcott
8. A Prayer of Owen Meany*
Irving
9. The Stand
King
10. The Great Gatsby *
Fitzgerald
11. Mists of Avalon
Bradley
12. David Copperfield *
Dickens
13. Kristen Lavransdotter
Undset
14. Beloved *
Morrison
15. Age of Innocence
Wharton
16. The Shell Seekers *
Pilcher
17. Tess of the D'Urbervilles *
Hardy
18. The World According to Garp **
Irving [didn't finish]
19. Catch 22
Heller
20. The Clan of the Cave Bear *
Auel
21. The Horse Whisperer **
Evans
22. Pillars of the Earth
Follett
23. Prince of Tides *
Conroy
24. Possession
Byatt
25. Rebecca*
DuMaurier
26. Follow the River *
Thom
27. My Antonia *
Cather
28. The Old Man and the Sea **
Hemingway
29. The Scarlet Letter *
Hawthorne
30. Sophies Choice *
Styron
31. Snow Falling on Cedars *
Guterson
32. One Hundred Years of Solitude
Marquez
33. Name of the Rose
Eco
34. The Giver
Lowry
35. Cold Mountain *
Frazier
36. Cold Sassy Tree *
Burns
37. Atlas Shrugged
Rand
38. Bridge to Terebithia
Paterson
39. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant *
Tyler
40. The Hobbit
Tolkien
41. Les Miserables **
Hugo
42. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Lewis
43. Wuthering Heights *
Bronte
44. A Tale of Two Cities **
Dickens
45. Huckelberry Finn **
Twain
46. Alice in Wonderland*
Carroll
47. The Wind in the Willows
Grahame
48. The Bean Trees
Kingsolving
49. Ben Hur **
Wallace
50. And Then There Were None **
Christie
51. The Secret Garden *
Burnett
52. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Taylor
53. Busman's Honeymoon
Sayers
54. Schindler's List **
Keneally
55. Emma *
Austen
56. The Color Purple *
Walker
57. The Count of Monte Cristo **
Dumas
58. Charlotte's Web **
White
59. Anne of Green Gables **
Montgomery
60. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood *
Wells
61. Lady Chatterly's Lover *
Lawrence
62. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn *
Smith
63. East of Eden *
Steinbeck
64. The Once and Future King
White
65. Enders Game
Card
66. The Fountainhead **
Rand
67. A Patchwork Planet *
Tyler
68. Gaudy Night
Sayers
69. Shogun *
Clavell
70. Grapes of Wrath *
Steinbeck
71. Handmaid's Tale
Atwood
72. Lonesome Dove **
McMurtry
73. Outlander
Gabaldon
74. Pigs in Heaven
Kingsolver
75. Slaughterhouse Five
Vonnegut
76. Jude the Obscure
Hardy
77. Time and Again *
Finney
78. Misery *
King
79. A Christmas Carol *
Dickens
80. The Accidental Tourist *
Tyler
81. Giants of the Earth
Rolvaag
82. Persuasion
Austen
83. Fried Green Tom8atoes *
Flagg
84. Tisha
Specht
85. The Thornbirds *
McCullough
86. Christy
Marshall
87. Lost Horizon
Hilton
88. The Little Prince
St. Exupery
89. Fahrenheight 451
Bradbury
90. For Whom the Bell Tolls *
Hemingway
91. Frankenstein
Shelley
92. Bleak House
Dickens
93. Boy's Life
McCammon
94. Chesapeake
Michener
95. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Adams
96. How Green Was My Valley**
Llewellyn
97. Howard's End **
Forster
98. I, Robot
Asimov
99. Of Mice and Men*
Steinbeck
100. A Passage to India
Forster