Favorite Books
During National Library Week, we had a display in Irwin Library and another at Starbucks. One element of the display was a table covered with paper, where we asked people to write down their favorite books. Below is the complete list of all books listed on either of the tables, along with the number of times they were mentioned. (A couple books were either illegible or made up.)
| 2007 National Library Week |
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| What’s Your Favorite Book? |
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| (from table covers) | ||
| Title | Author | Frequency |
| The Holy Bible | 12 | |
| 1984 | George Orwell | 5 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 5 |
| The Giver | Lois Lowry | 5 |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 4 |
| Harry Potter | J. K. Rowling | 4 |
| Angels and Demons | Dan Brown | 3 |
| Annotated Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 3 |
| Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card | 3 |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | 3 |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck | 2 |
| Everybody Poops | Taro Gomi | 2 |
| Freakonomics | Steven D. Levitt | 2 |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 2 |
| Le Petit Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 2 |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 2 |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | 2 |
| My Life | Bill Clinton | 2 |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 2 |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | 2 |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 2 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 2 |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 2 |
| The Little House | Virginia Lee Burton | 2 |
| The Never-Ending Story | Michael Ende | 2 |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
Stephen Chbosky | 2 |
| The Portrait of Dorian Grey | Oscar Wilde | 2 |
| The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon | 2 |
| The Stranger | Albert Camus | 2 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 2 |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends | Shel Silverstein | 2 |
| A Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1 |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 1 |
| A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
Dave Eggers | 1 |
| A Million Little Pieces | James Frey | 1 |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | 1 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Dickens | 1 |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | 1 |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L’Engle | 1 |
| After the Rainbow | V.C. Andrews | 1 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 1 |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | 1 |
| Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope | 1 |
| Bearing an Hourglass | Piers Anthony | 1 |
| Black Like Me | John Howard Griffin | 1 |
| Blood and Gold | Anne Rice | 1 |
| Calvin & Hobbes | Bill Watterson | 1 |
| Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 1 |
| Charlotte’s Web | E. B. White | 1 |
| Curious George | H. A. Rey | 1 |
| Dante’s Inferno | Ryan King | 1 |
| Darkness at Noon | Jared Gillespie | 1 |
| Effi Briest | Theodor Fontane | 1 |
| Emma | Jane Austen | 1 |
| Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton | 1 |
| Fallen Angels | Walter Dean Myers | 1 |
| Five People you meet in Heaven | Mitch Alban | 1 |
| For One More Day | Mitch Albom | 1 |
| Glass Castles: A Memoir | Jeannette Walls | 1 |
| Good in Bed | Jennifer Weiner | 1 |
| Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | 1 |
| Goodnight Mr. Tom | Colin | 1 |
| Hinds Feet on High Places | Hannah Hurnard | 1 |
| His Dark Materials Trilogy | Philip Pullman | 1 |
| Historias de Cronopios y defamas | Julio Cortazar | 1 |
| Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 1 |
| Horton Hears a Who | Dr. Seuss | 1 |
| House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende | 1 |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | 1 |
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 1 |
| Ishmael | Anthony Quinn | 1 |
| James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl | 1 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 1 |
| Jemima J | Jane Green | 1 |
| Kama Sutra | 1 | |
| Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 1 |
| Knowing God | J.I. Packer | 1 |
| La Novena Puerta | Celia Filipetto | 1 |
| Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | 1 |
| Life of Pi | Yan Martel | 1 |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 1 |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 1 |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1 |
| Magical Thinking | Augustin Burroughs | 1 |
| Mama Makes up her Mind (and other dangers of Southern Living) |
Bailey White | 1 |
| Matilda | Roald Dahl | 1 |
| Me Talk Pretty one Day | David Sedaris | 1 |
| Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 1 |
| Mother Teresa | Kathryn Spink | 1 |
| My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George | 1 |
| My Sister’s Keeper | Jodi Picoult | 1 |
| Naked | David Sedaris | 1 |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson | 1 |
| Night | Eric Witsel | 1 |
| Now You See Her | Linda Howard | 1 |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 1 |
| One Fish Two Fish | Dr. Seuss | 1 |
| One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey | 1 |
| Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | 1 |
| Orlando | Virginia Woolf | 1 |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | 1 |
| Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | 1 |
| Plain Truth | Jodi Picoult | 1 |
| Prep | Curtis Settingfield | 1 |
| Reckless Driver | Lisa Vice | 1 |
| Room Full of Mirrors | Charles R. Cross | 1 |
| Sellevision | Augusten Burroughs | 1 |
| Seth Speaks | Jane Roberts | 1 |
| Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll | Eric Bogosian | 1 |
| Sexy Beast | Kate Douglas | 1 |
| Shalimar the Clown | Salman Rushdie | 1 |
| She’s Come Undone | Wally Lamb | 1 |
| Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Ann Brashares | 1 |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 1 |
| Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | 1 |
| Star Trek: The Return | William Shatner | 1 |
| Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy | A.C. Crispin | 1 |
| Summer Sisters | Judy Blume | 1 |
| Summerland | Michael Chabon | 1 |
| The Accidental Tourist | Anne Tyler | 1 |
| The Aenied | Virgil | 1 |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | 1 |
| The American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War |
Neil Baldwin | 1 |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin | 1 |
| The BFG | Shelley Johnson | 1 |
| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | 1 |
| The Broker | John Grisham | 1 |
| The Chronicles of Narnia | C.S. Lewis | 1 |
| The Comedians | Graham Greene | 1 |
| The Dark Half | Stephen King | 1 |
| The Deryni Trilogies | Katherine Kurtz | 1 |
| The Devil Wears Prada | Lauren Weisberger | 1 |
| The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | 1 |
| The Great Divorce | C.S. Lewis | 1 |
| The Hiding Place | Corrie Ten Boom | 1 |
| The History of Love | Nicole Krauss | 1 |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1 |
| The Horse Whisperer | Nicholas Evans | 1 |
| The Iliad | Homer | 1 |
| The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | 1 |
| The King, the Mice, and the Cheese | Nancy Gurney | 1 |
| The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1 |
| The Man in the Maze | Robert Silverberg | 1 |
| The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | Kate Dicamillo | 1 |
| The Monster at the End of this Book | Jon Stone | 1 |
| The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | 1 |
| The Queen’s Confession | Victoria Holt | 1 |
| The Redwall Series | Brian Jacques | 1 |
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 1 |
| The Road Back | Remarque | 1 |
| The Rule of Four | Ian Caldwell | 1 |
| The Silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1 |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1 |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 1 |
| The Thirteenth Tale | Diane Setterfield | 1 |
| The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | 1 |
| The Time Traveler’s Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | 1 |
| The Wind Blows Backwards | Mary Downing Hahn | 1 |
| Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 1 |
| Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | 1 |
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | 1 |
| Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowing | 1 |
| Valley of the Dolls | Jacqueline Susann | 1 |
| What Katie Did | Susan Coolidge | 1 |
| What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day | Pearl Cleage | 1 |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | 1 |
| White Oleander | Janet Fitch | 1 |
| Wicked | Gregory Maguire | 1 |
| Winnetou | Karl May | 1 |
| Anything by: | Edgar Allen Poe | 1 |
| Anything by: | Ernest Hemingway | 1 |
| Anything by: | Godel, Esher, Back | 1 |
| Anything by: | Mitch Albom | 1 |
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