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

  2. 2.
    A Time to Kill
    by John Grisham

  3. 3.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

  4. 4.
    Sparrow
    by Mary Doria Russell

  5. 5.
    An American Tragedy
    by Theodore Dreiser

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

  7. 7.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving

  8. 8.
    The Brothers K
    by David James Duncan

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

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

  11. 12.
    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
    by John le Carre

  12. 13.
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    The Adventures of Tintin (series)
    by Hergé

  13. 14.
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  14. 15.
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    Teaching with Books, A Study of College Libraries
    by Harvie Branscomb

  15. 16.
    Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation
    by Landon Y. Jones

  16. 17.
    The Ordeal of Change
    by Eric Hoffer

  17. 19.
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    Only Yesterday - An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties
    by Frederick Lewis Allen

  18. 20.
    The New Testament

  19. 21.
    The Little House Collection Box Set (Full Color)
    by Laura Ingalls Wilder

  20. 22.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  21. 23.
    Lady Chatterley’s Lover
    by D. H. Lawrence

  22. 24.
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    The Diary of Anaïs Nin (complete series)
    by Anaïs Nin

  23. 25.
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    The Whitsun Weddings
    by Philip Larkin

  24. 26.
    The Issa Valley: A Novel
    by Czeslaw Milosz

  25. 27.
    Middlesex

  26. 28.
    The Last Light of the Sun
    by Guy Gavriel Kay

  27. 29.
    Sailing to Sarantium (Sarantine Mosaic, Book 1)
    by Guy Gavriel Kay

  28. 30.
    The Crook Factory
    by Dan Simmons

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  30. 32.
    The Position: A Novel
    by Meg Wolitzer

  31. 34.
    The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood
    by David Thomson

  32. 35.
    Island of the Aunts
    by Eva Ibbotson

  33. 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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