Lists of Bests: Famous Librarians' Favorite Books http://www.listsofbests.com/list/40570 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." Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:59:24 GMT en-us 0 50 37 0 0 Bless Me, Ultima http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035634 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1035634"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446675369.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudolfo Anaya</div> A Time to Kill http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/997630 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/997630"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385338600.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Grisham</div> The Joy Luck Club http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1739199 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1739199"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143038095.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Tan</div> The Sparrow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2300487 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Doria Russell</div> An American Tragedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2204568 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1628390 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1628390"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140620168.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> A Prayer for Owen Meany http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2292562 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2292562"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0552135399.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> The Brothers K http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15892 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15892"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/055337849X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David James Duncan</div> Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19453 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19453"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684847957.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Kearns Goodwin</div> All-of-a-Kind Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1153466 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1153466"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385732953.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1109945578_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sydney Taylor</div> Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66024 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66024"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/037570101X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Raban</div> Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21475 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21475"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743457900.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John le Carre</div> The Adventures of Tintin (series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2834207 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hergé</div> The Monteith College Library Experiment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2910704 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Teaching with Books, A Study of College Libraries http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2910705 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harvie Branscomb</div> Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/191561 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Landon Y. Jones</div> The Ordeal of Change http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1471226 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1471226"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1933435100.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Hoffer</div> Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1023174 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1023174"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452285658.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Hightower</div> Only Yesterday - An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2910706 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Lewis Allen</div> The New Testament http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002340 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Little House Collection Box Set (Full Color) (Little House) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1137 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1137"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060754281.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laura Ingalls Wilder</div> The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/513922 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/513922"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437263.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</div> Lady Chatterley’s Lover http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2910709 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D. H. Lawrence</div> The Diary of Anaïs Nin (complete series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2910719 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anaïs Nin</div> The Whitsun Weddings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2910722 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Larkin</div> The Issa Valley: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/434630 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/434630"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374516952.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Czeslaw Milosz</div> Middlesex http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51222 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Last Light of the Sun http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2514679 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2514679"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743484231.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Guy Gavriel Kay</div> Sailing to Sarantium (Sarantine Mosaic, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1722 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1722"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061059900.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Guy Gavriel Kay</div> The Crook Factory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/97963 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/97963"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380789175.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dan Simmons</div> Lost in the Forest: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/984112 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/984112"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345469593.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sue Miller</div> The Position: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1191797 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1191797"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743261801.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V56502158_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Meg Wolitzer</div> A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, And the Birth of America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/497346 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/497346"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805080090.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stacy Schiff</div> The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356896 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/356896"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701540.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Thomson</div> Island of the Aunts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/37970 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/37970"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142300497.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122532699_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eva Ibbotson</div> The Secret History of the Pink Carnation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1165657 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1165657"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FILIP8.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lauren Willig</div> Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75362 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75362"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618619070.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adam Hochschild</div>