Ottawa’s 100 favourite books contest

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Presented by the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library

100 favourite books for 100 years of Library service

As part of the Ottawa Public Library’s 100 th anniversary celebrations, the OPL and several corporate sponsors and media partners presented a fun and interactive online contest to identify Ottawa’s 100 favourite books.

662 people voted for 634 books between Sunday, April 30 and Saturday, May 13. During this period, library cardholders could vote for their favourite book three times or vote for their favourite fiction, non-fiction and children’s book.

The results are in! Here is the list of Ottawa’s 100 favourite books:

Note: Camus’ L’Etranger (a.k.a. The Outsider/The Stranger) is on the list twice, once in English translation and once in the original French.

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  1. 1.
    Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  2. 2.
    Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
    by L. M. Montgomery

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  3. 3.
    A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Rohinton Mistry

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  4. 4.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  5. 5.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  6. 6.
    The Outsider
    by Albert Camus

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  7. 7.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown

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  8. 8.
    Jane Eyre (Step into Classics)
    by Charlotte Bronte

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  9. 9.
    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  10. 10.
    The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions)
    by Khaled Hosseini

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  11. 12.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon

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  12. 13.
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    Pensées du Jour - Tome Rouge
    by Martin Laporte

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  13. 14.
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    Mimi The Angel Gets Her Wings
    by Sylvie Brûlé

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  14. 15.
    Charlotte's Web
    by E. B. White

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  15. 16.
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Narnia)
    by C. S. Lewis

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  16. 17.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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  17. 18.
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    by J.K. Rowling

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  18. 19.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden

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  19. 20.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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  20. 21.
    Life of Pi: Student Edition
    by Yann Martel

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  21. 22.
    The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

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  22. 23.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C. S. Lewis

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  23. 24.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  24. 25.
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
    by J.K. Rowling

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  25. 26.
    Outlander
    by Diana Gabaldon

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  26. 27.
    Green Eggs and Ham Deluxe Edition (Classic Seuss)
    by Dr. Seuss

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  27. 28.
    No Great Mischief: A Novel
    by Alistair Macleod

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  28. 29.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  29. 30.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  30. 31.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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  31. 33.
    The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    by Mitch Albom

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  32. 34.
    The Little Prince: Sixtieth-Anniversary Gift Edition
    by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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  33. 35.
    The Stone Angel (Phoenix Fiction Series)
    by Margaret Laurence

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  34. 36.
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    by J.K. Rowling

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  35. 37.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Perennial Classics)
    by Betty Smith

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  36. 38.
    Oryx and Crake
    by Margaret Atwood

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  37. 39.
    Goodnight Moon
    by Margaret Wise Brown

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  38. 40.
    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  39. 41.
    Angelas Ashes
    by Frank Mcouyt

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  40. 42.
    The Diviners (Phoenix Fiction Series)
    by Margaret Laurence

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  41. 43.
    The Secret Garden (Dover Juvenile Classics)
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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  42. 44.
    Fifth Business (Penguin Classics)
    by Robertson Davies

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  43. 45.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  44. 46.
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    by Roald Dahl

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  45. 47.
    Fall On Your Knees (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Ann-Marie MacDonald

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  46. 48.
    Angels & Demons
    by Dan Brown

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  47. 49.
    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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  48. 50.
    The Thorn Birds
    by Colleen McCullough

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Comments

I goofed! — 2 years ago

All I wanted to do was correct the then #93 from “Thursdays with Morrie” to “Tuesdays…” But instead I deleted the whole entry. If anyone knows how to repair this list, please do! (And why were there only 97 books on this 100 book list to begin with?)