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Famous Librarians' Favorite Books

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. Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya
  
2. A Time to Kill
by John Grisham
  
3. The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
  
4.
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 The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell
  
5.
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 An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
  
6. Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
7. A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
  
8. The Brothers K
by David James Duncan
  
9. Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  
10. All-of-a-Kind Family
by Sydney Taylor
  
11. Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
by Jonathan Raban
  
12. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
by John le Carre
  
13.
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 The Adventures of Tintin (series)
by Hergé
  
14.
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 The Monteith College Library Experiment  
15.
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 Teaching with Books, A Study of College Libraries
by Harvie Branscomb
  
16.
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 Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation
by Landon Y. Jones
  
17. The Ordeal of Change
by Eric Hoffer
  
18. Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back
by Jim Hightower
  
19.
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 Only Yesterday - An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties
by Frederick Lewis Allen
  
20.
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 The New Testament  
21. The Little House Collection Box Set (Full Color) (Little House)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  
22. The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
23.
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 Lady Chatterley’s Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
  
24.
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 The Diary of Anaïs Nin (complete series)
by Anaïs Nin
  
25.
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 The Whitsun Weddings
by Philip Larkin
  
26. The Issa Valley: A Novel
by Czeslaw Milosz
  
27.
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 Middlesex  
28. The Last Light of the Sun
by Guy Gavriel Kay
  
29. Sailing to Sarantium (Sarantine Mosaic, Book 1)
by Guy Gavriel Kay
  
30. The Crook Factory
by Dan Simmons
  
31. Lost in the Forest: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Sue Miller
  
32. The Position: A Novel
by Meg Wolitzer
  
33. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, And the Birth of America
by Stacy Schiff
  
34. The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood
by David Thomson
  
35. Island of the Aunts
by Eva Ibbotson
  
36. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
by Lauren Willig
  
37. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
by Adam Hochschild
  
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Created by Semety on Aug 31, 2007.