Famous Librarians' Favorite Books

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by: George Eberhart

"I asked ten library leaders to identify the publications that have given them great enjoyment or significantly affected their professional or personal lives and philosophies."

  1. 1.
    Bless Me, Ultima
    by Rudolfo Anaya

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    A Time to Kill
    by John Grisham

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    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

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    The Sparrow
    by Mary Doria Russell

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    An American Tragedy
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  6. 6.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving

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    The Brothers K
    by David James Duncan

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  9. 9.
    Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
    by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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  10. 10.
    All-of-a-Kind Family
    by Sydney Taylor

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    Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
    by Jonathan Raban

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    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
    by John le Carre

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    The Adventures of Tintin (series)
    by Hergé

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    Teaching with Books, A Study of College Libraries
    by Harvie Branscomb

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    Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation
    by Landon Y. Jones

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  17. 17.
    The Ordeal of Change
    by Eric Hoffer

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    Only Yesterday - An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties
    by Frederick Lewis Allen

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  19. 20.
    The New Testament

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  20. 21.
    The Little House Collection Box Set (Full Color) (Little House)
    by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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  21. 22.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  22. 23.
    Lady Chatterley’s Lover
    by D. H. Lawrence

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    The Diary of Anaïs Nin (complete series)
    by Anaïs Nin

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    The Whitsun Weddings
    by Philip Larkin

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  25. 26.
    The Issa Valley: A Novel
    by Czeslaw Milosz

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  26. 27.
    Middlesex

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  27. 28.
    The Last Light of the Sun
    by Guy Gavriel Kay

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  28. 29.
    Sailing to Sarantium (Sarantine Mosaic, Book 1)
    by Guy Gavriel Kay

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  29. 30.
    The Crook Factory
    by Dan Simmons

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    The Position: A Novel
    by Meg Wolitzer

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  32. 34.
    The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood
    by David Thomson

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  33. 35.
    Island of the Aunts
    by Eva Ibbotson

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  34. 36.
    The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
    by Lauren Willig

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Created by Semety on Aug 31, 2007.
 

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