Recommended Reads
100 Favorite Novels of Librarians
Based on a survey conduced by Brodart Co., September 1998 - March 1999

  1. Pride and Prejudice by Austen
  2. To Kill A Mockingbird by Lee
  3. Jane Eyre by Bronte
  4. Gone With the Wind by Mitchell
  5. Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
  6. The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
  7. Little Women by Alcott
  8. A Prayer for Owen Meany by Irving
  9. The Stand by King
  10. The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
  11. Mists of Avalon by Bradley
  12. David Copperfield by Dickens
  13. Kristen Lavransdotter by Undset
  14. Beloved by Morrison
  15. Age of Innocence by Wharton
  16. The Shell Seekers by Pilcher
  17. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Hardy
  18. The World According to Garp by Irving
  19. Catch 22 by Heller
  20. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Auel
  21. The Horse Whisperer by Evans
  22. Pillars of the Earth by Follett
  23. Prince of Tides by Conroy
  24. Possession by Byatt
  25. Rebecca by DuMaurier
  26. Follow the River by Thom
  27. My Antonia by Cather
  28. The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
  29. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne
  30. Sophie's Choice by Styron
  31. Snow Falling on Cedars by Guterson
  32. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez
  33. Name of the Rose by Eco
  34. The Giver by Lowry
  35. Cold Mountain by Frazier
  36. Cold Sassy Tree by Burns
  37. Atlas Shrugged by Rand
  38. Bridge to Terebithia by Paterson
  39. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Tyler
  40. The Hobbit by Tolkien
  41. Les Miserables by Hugo
  42. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Lewis
  43. Wuthering Heights by Bronte
  44. A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
  45. Huckelberry Finn by Twain
  46. Alice in Wonderland by Carrol
  47. The Wind in the Willows by Grahame
  48. The Bean Trees by Kingsolving
  49. Ben Hur by Wallace
  50. And Then There Were None by Christie
  51. The Secret Garden by Burnett
  52. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Taylor
  53. Busman's Honeymoon by Sayers
  54. Schindler's List by Keneally
  55. Emma by Austen
  56. The Color Purple by Walker
  57. The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
  58. Charlotte's Web by White
  59. Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery
  60. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Wells
  61. Lady Chatterly's Lover by Lawrence
  62. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Smith
  63. East of Eden by Steinbeck
  64. The Once and Future King by White
  65. Ender's Game by Card
  66. The Fountainhead by Rand
  67. A Patchwork Planet by Tyler
  68. Gaudy Night by Sayers
  69. Shogun by Clavell
  70. Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
  71. Handmaid's Tale by Atwood
  72. Lonesome Dove by McMurtry
  73. Outlander by Gabaldon
  74. Pigs in Heaven by Kingsolver
  75. Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut
  76. Judge the Obscure by Hardy
  77. Time and Again by Finney
  78. Misery by King
  79. A Christmas Carol by Dickens
  80. The Accidental Tourist by Tyler
  81. Giants of the Earth by Rolvaag
  82. Persuasion by Austen
  83. Fried Green Tomatoes by Flagg
  84. Tisha by Specht
  85. The Thornbirds by McCullough
  86. Christy by Marshall
  87. Lost Horizon by Hilton
  88. The Little Prince by St. Exupery
  89. Fahrenheight 451 by Bradbury
  90. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Hemingway
  91. Frankenstein by Shelley
  92. Bleak House by Dickens
  93. Boy's Life by McCammon
  94. Chesapeake by Michener
  95. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams
  96. How Green Was My Valley by Llewellyn
  97. Howard's End by Forster
  98. I, Robot by Asimov
  99. Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
  100.  A Passage to India by Forster