You may have read in “The Map” that when I made the choice to experience the best of everything I could, I started by reading the Favorite Books of Librarians. Join me on the Quest for the Best and read these books with me! Let us know which ones you’ve read in the comments below. And while you read, open up to the possibility that the “best” is yet to come…
- Pride and Prejudice ~ Austin
- To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Lee
- Jane Eyre ~ Bronte
- Gone with the Wind ~ Mitchell
- Lord of the Rings ~ Tolkien
- The Catcher in the Rye ~ Salinger
- Little Women ~ Alcott
- A Prayer of Owen Meany ~ Irving
- The Stand ~ King
- The Great Gatsby – Fitzgerald
- Mists of Avalon ~ Bradley
- David Copperfield ~ Dickens
- Kristen Lavransdotter ~ Undset
- Beloved ~ Morrison
- Age of Innocence ~ Wharton
- The Shell Seekers ~ Pilcher
- Tess of the D’Ubervilles ~ Hardy
- The World According to Garp ~ Irving
- Catch 22 ~ Heller
- The Clan of the Cave Bear ~ Auel
- The Horse Whisperer ~ Evans
- Pillars of the Earth ~ Follett
- Prince of Tides ~ Conroy
- Possession ~ Byatt
- Rebecca ~ DuMaurier
- Follow the River ~ Thorn
- My Antonia ~ Cather
- The Old Man and the Sea ~ Hemingway
- The Scarlet Letter ~ Hawthorne
- Sophies Choice ~ Styron
- Snow Falling on Cedars ~ Guterson
- One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ Marquez
- Name of the Rose ~ Eco
- The Giver ~ Lowry
- Cold Mountain ~ Frazier
- Cold Sassy Tree ~ Burns
- Atlas Shrugged ~ Rand
- Bridge to Terebithia ~ Paterson
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant ~ Tyler
- The Hobbit ~ Tolkien
- Les Miserables ~ Hugo
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ~ Lewis
- Wuthering Heights ~ Bronte
- A Tale of Two Cities ~ Dickens
- Huckleberry Finn ~ Twain
- Alice in Wonderland ~ Carroll
- The Wind in the Willows ~ Grahame
- The Bean Trees ~ Kingsolving
- Ben Hur ~ Wallace
- And Then There Were None ~ Christie
- The Secret Garden ~ Burnett
- Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry ~ Taylor
- Busman’s Honeymoon ~ Sayers
- Schindler’s List ~ Keneally
- Emma ~ Austen
- The Color Purple ~ Walker
- The Count of Monte Cristo ~ Dumas
- Charlotte’s Web ~ White
- Anne of Green Gables ~ Montgomery
- The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya- Sisterhood ~ Wells
- Lady Chatterly’s Lover ~ Lawrence
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ~ Smith
- East of Eden ~ Steinbeck
- The Once and Future King ~ White
- Enders Game ~ Card
- The Fountainhead ~ Rand
- A Patchwork Planet ~ Tyler
- Gaudy Night ~ Sayers
- Shogun ~ Clavell
- Grapes of Wrath ~ Steinbeck
- Handmaid’s Tale ~ Atwood
- Lonesome Dove ~ McMurtry
- Outlander ~ Gabaldon
- Pigs in Heaven ~ Kingsolver
- Slaughterhouse Five ~ Vonnegut
- Jude the Obscure ~ Hardy
- Time and Again ~ Finney
- Misery ~ King
- A Christmas Carol ~ Dickens
- The Accidental Tourist ~ Tyler
- Giants of the Earth ~ Rolvaaag
- Persuasion ~ Austen
- Fried Green Tomatoes ~ Flagg
- Tisha ~ Specht
- The Thornbirds ~ McCullough
- Christy ~ Marshall
- Lost Horizon ~ Hilton
- The Little Prince ~ St. Exupery
- Fahrenheight 451 ~ Bradbury
- For Whom the Bell Tolls ~ Hemmingway
- Frankenstein ~ Shelley
- Bleak House ~ Dickens
- Boy’s Life ~ McCammon
- Chesapeake ~ Michener
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ Adams
- How Green Was My Valley ~ Llewellyn
- Howard’s End ~ Forster
- I, Robot ~ Asimov
- Of Mice and Men ~ Steinbeck
- A Passage to India ~ Forster