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FROM: "belle banks" <web761@charweb.org>
REC'D: 12/18/99, 10:11 PM

I'm thinking about doing a program about the most important books of the
last hundred years, but need a lot of help in selecting titles. I will
probably try to keep the number down to ten. The only one I am really
sure of is "Gone With The Wind." I'll be doing this program the third
week in January -- after the millenium arrives. Any suggestions?

Belle Banks
Web761@charweb.org

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <LColcord@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 12/19/99, 2:07 PM

Definitely include To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Lisa Colcord
Glendale Public Library
Glendale, AZ

<<< belle banks <web761@charweb.org> 12/18 9:12p >>>

I'm thinking about doing a program about the most important books of the
last hundred years, but need a lot of help in selecting titles. I will
probably try to keep the number down to ten. The only one I am really
sure of is "Gone With The Wind." I'll be doing this program the third
week in January -- after the millenium arrives. Any suggestions?

Belle Banks
Web761@charweb.org

FROM: <Mkmmax@aol.com>
REC'D: 12/19/99, 11:14 PM

I also encourage you to include To Kill A Mockingbird.

Mary Mannix

FROM: "Fiction_L" <fictionl@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 12/20/99, 11:24 AM

Belle,

I always think of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood as having introduced a new
form in literature...and I'm already ducking for cover from the responses
that opinion might generate.

Sherry Forrest
Arts & Literature Dept.
Omaha Public Library

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Sent: Saturday, December 18, 1999 10:12 PM
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Subject: Ten best of the last hundred years

I'm thinking about doing a program about the most important books of the
last hundred years, but need a lot of help in selecting titles. I will
probably try to keep the number down to ten. The only one I am really
sure of is "Gone With The Wind." I'll be doing this program the third
week in January -- after the millenium arrives. Any suggestions?

Belle Banks
Web761@charweb.org

FROM: "Roberta S. Johnson" <rjohnson@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 12/20/99, 12:58 PM

> I always think of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood as having introduced a new
> form in literature...and I'm already ducking for cover from the responses
> that opinion might generate.

I was thinking along these lines too, of a book that changed the face of literature.
Capote's book is a great choice, and I would definitely include one of the first true
works of Young Adult literature for that reason: either The Chocolate War or The
Outsiders. You pick. :-)

Roberta


Roberta S. Johnson
Adult Services Librarian
Des Plaines Public Library
rjohnson@nslsilus.org
Opinions my own.

FROM: "Viccy Kemp" <VKemp@ci.carrollton.tx.us>
REC'D: 12/20/99, 5:23 PM

Yes, I believe this book is regarded as the first "true crime" book, a genre
with a wealth of authors now, such as Ann Rule, Joseph Wambaugh, Jack Olsen,
Carlton Stowers, John Bloom, etc. I read "In Cold Blood" years ago and also
read Bloom's book about Candace Mongomery and Betty Gore, but then I tried
to read Rule's first book and got sick to my stomach, so I never read
another true crime book.
I ran a book store for ten years and the company had to create a new section
called true crime in order to accommodate the number of titles available in
the genre. I don't think it is quite as popular a genre now. My guess would
be this is due to the media coverage of all the violence.
HTH
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fiction_L [SMTP:fictionl@nslsilus.ORG]
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 11:28 AM
> To: fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org
> Subject: RE: Ten best of the last hundred years (fwd)
>
> Belle,
>
> I always think of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood as having introduced a new
> form in literature...and I'm already ducking for cover from the responses
> that opinion might generate.
>
> Sherry Forrest
> Arts & Literature Dept.
> Omaha Public Library
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org
> [<A HREF="mailto:owner-fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org]On">mailto:owner-fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org]On</A> Behalf Of belle banks
> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 1999 10:12 PM
> To: fiction
> Subject: Ten best of the last hundred years
>
>
>
> I'm thinking about doing a program about the most important books of the
> last hundred years, but need a lot of help in selecting titles. I will
> probably try to keep the number down to ten. The only one I am really
> sure of is "Gone With The Wind." I'll be doing this program the third
> week in January -- after the millenium arrives. Any suggestions?
>
> Belle Banks
> Web761@charweb.org
>
>

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