THE 100 FAVORITE NOVELS OF LIBRARIANS

Based on a survey conducted by Brodart Co., September, 1998 - March, 1999

1. Pride and Prejudice  Austen  2. To Kill a Mockingbird  Lee  3. Jane Eyre  Bronte  4. Gone with the Wind  Mitchell  5. Lord of the Rings  Tolkien  6. The Catcher in the Rye  Salinger  7. Little Women  Alcott 8. A Prayer of Owen Meany  Irving  9. The Stand  King  10. The Great Gatsby  Fitzgerald  11. Mists of Avalon  Bradley  12. David Copperfield  Dickens  13. Kristen Lavransdotter  Undset  14. Beloved  Morrison  15. Age of Innocence  Wharton  16. The Shell Seekers  Pilcher  17. Tess of the D'Urbervilles  Hardy  18. The World According to Garp  Irving  19. Catch 22  Heller  20. The Clan of the Cave Bear  Auel  21. The Horse Whisperer  Evans  22. Pillars of the Earth  Follett  23. Prince of Tides  Conroy  24. Possession  Byatt  25. Rebecca  DuMaurier  26. Follow the River  Thom  27. My Antonia  Cather  28. The Old Man and the Sea  Hemingway  29. The Scarlet Letter  Hawthorne  30. Sophies Choice  Styron  31. Snow Falling on Cedars  Guterson  32. One Hundred Years of Solitude  Marquez  33. Name of the Rose  Eco  34. The Giver  Lowry  35. Cold Mountain  Frazier  36. Cold Sassy Tree  Burns  37. Atlas Shrugged  Rand  38. Bridge to Terebithia  Paterson  39. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant  Tyler  40. The Hobbit  Tolkien  41. Les Miserables  Hugo  42. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe  Lewis  43. Wuthering Heights  Bronte  44. A Tale of Two Cities  Dickens  45. Huckelberry Finn  Twain  46. Alice in Wonderland  Carroll  47. The Wind in the Willows  Grahame  48. The Bean Trees  Kingsolving  49. Ben Hur  Wallace  50. And Then There Were None  Christie

51. The Secret Garden  Burnett  52. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry  Taylor  53. Busman's Honeymoon  Sayers  54. Schindler's List  Keneally  55. Emma  Austen  56. The Color Purple  Walker  57. The Count of Monte Cristo  Dumas  58. Charlotte's Web  White  59. Anne of Green Gables  Montgomery  60. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood  Wells  61. Lady Chatterly's Lover  Lawrence  62. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  Smith  63. East of Eden  Steinbeck  64. The Once and Future King  White  65. Enders Game  Card  66. The Fountainhead  Rand  67. A Patchwork Planet  Tyler  68. Gaudy Night  Sayers  69. Shogun  Clavell  70. Grapes of Wrath  Steinbeck  71. Handmaid's Tale  Atwood  72. Lonesome Dove  McMurtry  73. Outlander  Gabaldon  74. Pigs in Heaven  Kingsolver  75. Slaughterhouse Five  Vonnegut  76. Jude the Obscure  Hardy  77. Time and Again  Finney  78. Misery  King  79. A Christmas Carol  Dickens  80. The Accidental Tourist  Tyler  81. Giants of the Earth  Rolvaag  82. Persuasion  Austen  83. Fried Green Tomatoes  Flagg  84. Tisha  Specht  85. The Thornbirds  McCullough  86. Christy  Marshall  87. Lost Horizon  Hilton  88. The Little Prince  St. Exupery  89. Fahrenheight 451  Bradbury  90. For Whom the Bell Tolls  Hemingway  91. Frankenstein  Shelley  92. Bleak House  Dickens  93. Boy's Life  McCammon  94. Chesapeake  Michener  95. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy  Adams  96. How Green Was My Valley  Llewellyn  97. Howard's End  Forster  98. I, Robot  Asimov  99. Of Mice and Men  Steinbeck  100. A Passage to India  Forster