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HPL Librarians' 100 Favorite Books

Agony and the Ecstasy, a Novel of Michelangelo.

Stone, Irving.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Carroll, Lewis.

All Creatures Great and Small.

Herriot, James.

Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

Chabon, Michael.

Angle of Repose.

Stegner, Wallace Earle.

Animal Farm.

Orwell, George.

Bastard out of Carolina.

Allison, Dorothy.

Hanh, Thich Nhat.

Christian, Peggy.

Stabenow, Dana.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

London, Jack.

Salinger, J.D.

Chaneysville Incident.

Bradley, David.

Charlotte's Web.

White, E.B.

Cloudstreet.

Winton, Tim.

Cold Mountain.

Frazier, Charles.

Coming into the Country.

McPhee, John A.

Confederacy of Dunces.

Toole, John Kennedy.

Control of Nature.

McPhee, John A.

Da Vinci Code.

Brown, Dan.

David and the Phoenix.

Ormondroyd, Edward.

Elegy for Iris.

Bayley, John.

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters.

Dunn, Mark.

Exodus.

Uris, Leon.

Fountainhead.

Rand, Ayn.

Franny and Zooey.

Salinger, J.D.

Frog Prince, Continued.

Scieszka, Jon.

Gaudy Night.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Ginger Pye.

Estes, Eleanor.

Giver.

Lowry, Lois.

Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi).

Hesse, Herman.

Gone with the Wind.

Mitchell, Margaret.

Great Expectations.

Dickens, Charles.

Handmaid's Tale.

Atwood, Margaret.

History of the English-Speaking Peoples.

Churchill, Winston, Sir.

Hobbit.

Tolkien, J.R.R.

Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey.

Wearing, Alison.

House of Breath.

Goyen, William.

How Good Do We Have to Be?: A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness.

Kushner, Harold S.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Angelou, Maya.

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster.

Krakauer, Jon.

It's a Thin Line.

Roby, Kimberla Lawson.

James and the Giant Peach: A Children's Story.

Dahl, Roald.

Jane Eyre.

Brontë, Charolotte.

Kane and Abel.

Archer, Jeffrey.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal.

Moore, Christopher.

Life of Pi.

Martel, Yann.

Like Water for Chocolate.

Esquivel, Laura.

Line of Fire.

Griffin, W.E.B.

Little House in the Big Woods.

Wilder, Laura Ingalls.

Living a Life that Matters.

Kushner, Harold S.

Nabokov, Vladimir.

Tolkien, J.R.R.

McMillan, Terry.

Golden, Arthur.

Eliot, George.

Rushdie, Salman.

Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

Heinlein, Robert A.

Motherless Brooklyn.

Lethem, Jonathan.

Mouse that Roared.

Wibberley, Leonard.

Natural History of the Senses.

Ackerman, Diane.

Night Thoreau Spent in Jail: A Play.

Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee.

Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Orwell, George.

No Regrets.

Haley, Patricia.

Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel.

Avi.

Once upon a Town: The Miracle of North Platte Canteen.

Greene, Bob.

One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Garcia, Gabriel Marquez.

Opal.

Whiteley, Opal.

Orlando.

Woolf, Virginia.

Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels.

Porter, Katherine Anne.

Persuasion.

Austen, Jane.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

Dillard, Annie.

Pillars of the Earth.

Follett, Ken.

Pride and Prejudice.

Austen, Jane.

Princess Bride.

Goldman, William.

Prize: Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power.

Yergin, Daniel.

Rebecca.

DuMaurier, Daphne.

Remembering Babylon.

Malouf, David.

Rock: A Tale of Seventh-Century Jerusalem.

Makiya, Kanan.

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

Khayyam, Omar.

Snow Goose.

Gallico, Paul.

Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime.

Cooper, J. California.

Story of My Life.

Keller, Helen.

Story of the Other Wise Man.

Van Dyke, Henry.

Stranger in a Strange Land.

Heinlein, Robert A.

Sun Also Rises.

Hemingway, Ernest.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

Hardy, Thomas.

Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Things Fall Apart.

Achebe, Chinua.

Through the Looking Glass.

Carroll, Lewis.

Tin Drum.

Grass, Günter.

To Kill a Mockingbird.

Lee, Harper.

Jahoda, Gloria.

White, E.B.

Lowry, Malcolm.

Brontë, Charlotte.

Waiting for Snow in Havana.

Eire, Carlos M.N.

Whitney, My Love.

McNaught, Judith.

Years of Lyndon Johnson.

Caro, Robert.