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FROM: "Jessica Moyer" <[removed]@richland.edu>
REC'D: 1/6/05, 12:58 PM

I know in the last few years I have seen a list of the 100 greatest
books of all time. I have a patron who likes to alternating reading fun
books and classics and he is interested in seeing this list. Does
anyone have it or know where I can find it?

Jessica E. Moyer, M.S., C.A.S.
Director of Academic Resources, Learning Resources Center
Richland Community College, One College Park, Decatur, IL 62521
Phone: 217 875 7211 ext 294 Email: [removed]@richland.edu

FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 1/6/05, 1:04 PM

Here's a link to the Modern Library's 100 best novels. Like all
"best ever" lists, this one is most effective at generating discussion and
should be taken with a grain of salt. They also have a readers' list of
the best 100 novels.

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

Barry

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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Jessica Moyer wrote:

> I know in the last few years I have seen a list of the 100 greatest
> books of all time. I have a patron who likes to alternating reading fun
> books and classics and he is interested in seeing this list. Does
> anyone have it or know where I can find it?
>
> Jessica E. Moyer, M.S., C.A.S.
> Director of Academic Resources, Learning Resources Center
> Richland Community College, One College Park, Decatur, IL 62521
> Phone: 217 875 7211 ext 294 Email: [removed]@richland.edu
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
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FROM: "Dillie, Thomas" <[removed]@gcpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 1/6/05, 1:15 PM

Jessica,
Try googling the phrase "100 best books"; doing so will get you links to many different lists, including the Modern Library list from 1998 which inspired many other groups, organizations, etc. to compile similar lists in preparation for the Millennium.
Tom Dillie, Head Librarian
Cedarville Community Library
Greene County Public Library
P.O. Box 26
74 N. Main St.
Cedarville OH 45314
[removed]@gcpl.lib.oh.us

"'Under consideration' means we've lost the file. 'Under active consideration' means we're trying to find it."
--The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, by Jonathan Lynn
-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Jessica Moyer
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:44 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: 100 greatest books

I know in the last few years I have seen a list of the 100 greatest
books of all time. I have a patron who likes to alternating reading fun
books and classics and he is interested in seeing this list. Does
anyone have it or know where I can find it?

Jessica E. Moyer, M.S., C.A.S.
Director of Academic Resources, Learning Resources Center
Richland Community College, One College Park, Decatur, IL 62521
Phone: 217 875 7211 ext 294 Email: [removed]@richland.edu

FROM: Molly Williams <[removed]@waterborolibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/6/05, 1:54 PM

Our links to book lists here might help:

http://www.waterborolibrary.org/bklista.htm#mod Modern, Post-Modern and
Contemporary Fiction
http://www.waterborolibrary.org/bklista.htm#great Great Books and Classics

They include the Modern Library lists as well as lists of "100 best"
created by other individuals, educational institutions, and organisations.

~ Molly Wms.

--
Molly Williams, Volunteer Web-Tender,
Waterboro Public Library (Maine): http://www.waterborolibrary.org/
... h20boro lib blog: http://www.waterborolibrary.org/blog.htm

Jessica Moyer wrote:

>I know in the last few years I have seen a list of the 100 greatest
>books of all time. I have a patron who likes to alternating reading fun
>books and classics and he is interested in seeing this list. Does
>anyone have it or know where I can find it?
>
>Jessica E. Moyer, M.S., C.A.S.
>Director of Academic Resources, Learning Resources Center
>Richland Community College, One College Park, Decatur, IL 62521
>Phone: 217 875 7211 ext 294 Email: [removed]@richland.edu
>
>

FROM: "Joy Tofteland" <[removed]@ankeny.k12.ia.us>
REC'D: 1/6/05, 2:45 PM

Library Journal asked librarians to nominate their choices for a "Century of
Good Books." This list is a compilation of that survey.
"Librarians Choose a Century of Good Books." Library Journal.
V123n19(November 15, 1998).p34-35.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird*Harper Lee
2. The Catcher in the Rye*J.D. Salinger
3. Lord of the Rings*J.R.R.Tolkien
4. Gone with the Wind*Margaret Mitchell
5. Beloved*Toni Morrison
6. The Color Purple*Alice Walker
7. Nineteen Eight Four*George Orwell
8. Animal Farm*George Orwell
9. Lord of the Flies*William Golding
10.Catch 22*Joseph Heller
11.The Good Earth*Pearl Buck
12.Charlotte's Web*E.B.White
13.The Great Gatsby*F. Scott Fitzgerald
14.Slaughterhouse-Five*Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
15.One Hundred Years of Solitude*Gabriel Garcia Marquez
16.Lonesome Dove*Larry McMurtry
17.Lolita*Vladimir Nabokov
18.Fahrenheit 451*Ray Bradbury
19.Rebecca*Daphne Du Maurier
20.The Grapes of Wrath*John Steinbeck
21.A Tree Grows in Brooklyn*Betty Smith
22.The Hobbit*J.R.R.Tolkien
23.One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest*Ken Kesey
24.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie*Muriel Spark
25.My Antonia*Willa Cather
26.The Old Man and the Sea*Ernest Hemingway
27.Lady Chatterly's Lover*D.H.Lawrence
28.Invisible Man*Ralph Ellison
29.Exodus*Leon Uris
30.Sophie's Choice*William Styron
31.Native Son*Richard Wright
32.Little House on the Prairie*Laura Ingalls Wilder
33.A Farewell to Arms*Ernest Hemingway
34.Winnie the Pooh*A.A.Milne
35.The Jungle*Upton Sinclair
36.The Handmaid's Tale*Margaret Atwood
37.The Age of Innocence*Edith WHarton
38.Rabbit Run*John Updike
39.On the Road*Jack Kerouac
40.Stranger in a Strange Land*Robert A. Heinlein
41.Brave New World*Aldous Huxley
42.Angle of Repose*Wallace Stegner
43.All Quiet on the Wewstern Front*Erich Maria Remarque
44.Ulysses*James Joyce
45.The Sun Also Rises*Ernest Hemingway
46.The Stranger*Albert Camus
47.The Sound and the Fury*William Faulkner
48.Possession*A.S.Byatt
49.Stone Diaries*Carol Shields
50.Song of Solomon*Toni Morrison
51.The Joy Luck Club*Amy Tan
52.Roots*Alex Haley
53.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*James Joyce
54.Look Homeward Angel*Thomas Wolfe
55.Pale Horse, Pale Rider*Katherine Anne Porter
56.Ethan Frome*Edith Wharton
57.The Lover*Marguerite Duras
58.A Clockwork Orange*Anthony Burgess
59.Winesburg, Ohio*Sherwood Anderson
60.To the Lighthouse*Virginia Woolf
61.The World According to Garp*John Irving
62.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz*L.Frank Baum
63.The Lion,the Witch, and the Wardrobe*C.S.Lewis
64.The Hound of the Baskevilles*A.Conan Doyle
65.The Fountainhead*Ayn Rand
66.The Burger's Daughter*Nadine Gordimer
67.The Call of the Wild*Jack london
68.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich*Alexander Solzhenitsyn
69.The Mists of Avalon*Marion Zimmer Bradley
70.I, Claudius*Robert Graves
71.From Here to Eternity*James Jones
72.East of Eden*John Steinbeck
73.Cry, the Beloved Country*Alan Paton
74.Advise and Consent*Allen Drury
75.Passage to India*E.M.Forster
76.2001: A Space Odyssey*Arthur C.Clarke
77.The Good Soldier*Ford Maddox Ford
78.Their Eyes Were Watching God*Zora Neale Hurston
79.The Wind in the Willows*Kenneth Graham
80.Portnoy's Complaint*Philip Roth
81.The Plague*Albert Camus
82.The Little Prince*Antoine se Saint-Exupery
83.The Bluest Eye*Toni Morrison
84.The Bean Trees*Barbara Kingsolver
85.Tarzan of the Apes*Edgar Rice Burroughs
86.Sister Carrie*Theodore Dreiser
87.A Good Man is Hard to Find*Flannery O'Connor
88.Remembrance of Things Past*Marcel Proust
89.Ragtime*E.L.Doctorow
90.Ordinary People*Judith Guest
91.Of Human Bondage*W.Somerset Maugham
92.Heart of Darkness*Joseph Conrad
93.Babbit*Sinclair Lewis
94.All the King's Men*Robert Penn Warren
95.Women in Love*D.H.Lawrence
96.Waiting for Godot*Samuel Beckett
97.USA*John Dos Passos
98.The Unbearable Lightness of Being*Milan Kundera
99.A Death in the Family*James Agee
100.The Once and Future King*T.H.White

Joy Tofteland
Reference/ Technical Resources Librarian
Kirkendall Public Library
Ankeny, IA

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Dillie, Thomas
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:12 PM
To: Fiction_L
Cc: [removed]@richland.edu
Subject: RE: 100 greatest books

Jessica,
Try googling the phrase "100 best books"; doing so will get you links to
many different lists, including the Modern Library list from 1998 which
inspired many other groups, organizations, etc. to compile similar lists in
preparation for the Millennium.
Tom Dillie, Head Librarian
Cedarville Community Library
Greene County Public Library
P.O. Box 26
74 N. Main St.
Cedarville OH 45314
[removed]@gcpl.lib.oh.us

"'Under consideration' means we've lost the file. 'Under active
consideration' means we're trying to find it."
--The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, by Jonathan
Lynn
-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Jessica Moyer
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:44 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: 100 greatest books

I know in the last few years I have seen a list of the 100 greatest
books of all time. I have a patron who likes to alternating reading fun
books and classics and he is interested in seeing this list. Does
anyone have it or know where I can find it?

Jessica E. Moyer, M.S., C.A.S.
Director of Academic Resources, Learning Resources Center
Richland Community College, One College Park, Decatur, IL 62521
Phone: 217 875 7211 ext 294 Email: [removed]@richland.edu

FROM: Concordia Branch <[removed]@mail.connect.more.net>
REC'D: 1/6/05, 3:53 PM

visit www.collegeboard.com for a list of 101 great books for college
bound readers

FROM: "Janet Schneider" <[removed]@msn.com>
REC'D: 1/6/05, 8:11 PM

Thanks for this tip.
I found the site a bit convoluted to navigate, so here's the
exact URL:

http://www.collegeboard.com/article/0,3868,2-8-0-23628,00.html

>From: Concordia Branch <[removed]@mail.connect.more.net>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: 101 great books
>Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:21:09 -0800
>
>visit www.collegeboard.com for a list of 101 great books for college bound
>readers
>
>......................................................................
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FROM: [removed]@middlesbrough.gov.uk
REC'D: 1/7/05, 3:30 AM

Have you looked at this link. www.bbc.co.uk/bigread

The BBC got the whole of Britain reading with a set of TV programmes and
radio shows.

The country then got to vote on its favourite book.

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FROM: "Brown, Carole Campbell" <[removed]@ci.greensboro.nc.us>
REC'D: 1/7/05, 10:21 AM

http://listsofbests.com/lists/1/ List of Bests - The best of the Best of lists in one place. There are several lists of 100 best books here, also award winners, etc.

Carole Campbell Brown
Readers Advisory Assistant/Teen Event Coordinator
Voice Mail (336) 433- 7260 & Reader's Advisory phone (336) 412-6271
E-Mail : [removed]@greensboro-nc.gov
Central Library
219 N. Church St.
Greensboro, NC 27402

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org [[removed]@maillist.webrary.org] On Behalf Of Joy Tofteland
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 3:05 PM
To: Fiction_L
[removed]@richland.edu
Subject: RE: 100 greatest books

Library Journal asked librarians to nominate their choices for a "Century of
Good Books." This list is a compilation of that survey.
"Librarians Choose a Century of Good Books." Library Journal.
V123n19(November 15, 1998).p34-35.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird*Harper Lee
2. The Catcher in the Rye*J.D. Salinger
3. Lord of the Rings*J.R.R.Tolkien
4. Gone with the Wind*Margaret Mitchell
5. Beloved*Toni Morrison
6. The Color Purple*Alice Walker
7. Nineteen Eight Four*George Orwell
8. Animal Farm*George Orwell
9. Lord of the Flies*William Golding
10.Catch 22*Joseph Heller
11.The Good Earth*Pearl Buck
12.Charlotte's Web*E.B.White
13.The Great Gatsby*F. Scott Fitzgerald
14.Slaughterhouse-Five*Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
15.One Hundred Years of Solitude*Gabriel Garcia Marquez
16.Lonesome Dove*Larry McMurtry
17.Lolita*Vladimir Nabokov
18.Fahrenheit 451*Ray Bradbury
19.Rebecca*Daphne Du Maurier
20.The Grapes of Wrath*John Steinbeck
21.A Tree Grows in Brooklyn*Betty Smith
22.The Hobbit*J.R.R.Tolkien
23.One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest*Ken Kesey
24.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie*Muriel Spark
25.My Antonia*Willa Cather
26.The Old Man and the Sea*Ernest Hemingway
27.Lady Chatterly's Lover*D.H.Lawrence
28.Invisible Man*Ralph Ellison
29.Exodus*Leon Uris
30.Sophie's Choice*William Styron
31.Native Son*Richard Wright
32.Little House on the Prairie*Laura Ingalls Wilder
33.A Farewell to Arms*Ernest Hemingway
34.Winnie the Pooh*A.A.Milne
35.The Jungle*Upton Sinclair
36.The Handmaid's Tale*Margaret Atwood
37.The Age of Innocence*Edith WHarton
38.Rabbit Run*John Updike
39.On the Road*Jack Kerouac
40.Stranger in a Strange Land*Robert A. Heinlein
41.Brave New World*Aldous Huxley
42.Angle of Repose*Wallace Stegner
43.All Quiet on the Wewstern Front*Erich Maria Remarque
44.Ulysses*James Joyce
45.The Sun Also Rises*Ernest Hemingway
46.The Stranger*Albert Camus
47.The Sound and the Fury*William Faulkner
48.Possession*A.S.Byatt
49.Stone Diaries*Carol Shields
50.Song of Solomon*Toni Morrison
51.The Joy Luck Club*Amy Tan
52.Roots*Alex Haley
53.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*James Joyce
54.Look Homeward Angel*Thomas Wolfe
55.Pale Horse, Pale Rider*Katherine Anne Porter
56.Ethan Frome*Edith Wharton
57.The Lover*Marguerite Duras
58.A Clockwork Orange*Anthony Burgess
59.Winesburg, Ohio*Sherwood Anderson
60.To the Lighthouse*Virginia Woolf
61.The World According to Garp*John Irving
62.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz*L.Frank Baum
63.The Lion,the Witch, and the Wardrobe*C.S.Lewis
64.The Hound of the Baskevilles*A.Conan Doyle
65.The Fountainhead*Ayn Rand
66.The Burger's Daughter*Nadine Gordimer
67.The Call of the Wild*Jack london
68.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich*Alexander Solzhenitsyn
69.The Mists of Avalon*Marion Zimmer Bradley
70.I, Claudius*Robert Graves
71.From Here to Eternity*James Jones
72.East of Eden*John Steinbeck
73.Cry, the Beloved Country*Alan Paton
74.Advise and Consent*Allen Drury
75.Passage to India*E.M.Forster
76.2001: A Space Odyssey*Arthur C.Clarke
77.The Good Soldier*Ford Maddox Ford
78.Their Eyes Were Watching God*Zora Neale Hurston
79.The Wind in the Willows*Kenneth Graham
80.Portnoy's Complaint*Philip Roth
81.The Plague*Albert Camus
82.The Little Prince*Antoine se Saint-Exupery
83.The Bluest Eye*Toni Morrison
84.The Bean Trees*Barbara Kingsolver
85.Tarzan of the Apes*Edgar Rice Burroughs
86.Sister Carrie*Theodore Dreiser
87.A Good Man is Hard to Find*Flannery O'Connor
88.Remembrance of Things Past*Marcel Proust
89.Ragtime*E.L.Doctorow
90.Ordinary People*Judith Guest
91.Of Human Bondage*W.Somerset Maugham
92.Heart of Darkness*Joseph Conrad
93.Babbit*Sinclair Lewis
94.All the King's Men*Robert Penn Warren
95.Women in Love*D.H.Lawrence
96.Waiting for Godot*Samuel Beckett
97.USA*John Dos Passos
98.The Unbearable Lightness of Being*Milan Kundera
99.A Death in the Family*James Agee
100.The Once and Future King*T.H.White

Joy Tofteland
Reference/ Technical Resources Librarian
Kirkendall Public Library
Ankeny, IA

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Dillie, Thomas
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:12 PM
To: Fiction_L
Cc: [removed]@richland.edu
Subject: RE: 100 greatest books

Jessica,
Try googling the phrase "100 best books"; doing so will get you links to
many different lists, including the Modern Library list from 1998 which
inspired many other groups, organizations, etc. to compile similar lists in
preparation for the Millennium.
Tom Dillie, Head Librarian
Cedarville Community Library
Greene County Public Library
P.O. Box 26
74 N. Main St.
Cedarville OH 45314
[removed]@gcpl.lib.oh.us

"'Under consideration' means we've lost the file. 'Under active
consideration' means we're trying to find it."
--The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, by Jonathan
Lynn
-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Jessica Moyer
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:44 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: 100 greatest books

I know in the last few years I have seen a list of the 100 greatest
books of all time. I have a patron who likes to alternating reading fun
books and classics and he is interested in seeing this list. Does
anyone have it or know where I can find it?

Jessica E. Moyer, M.S., C.A.S.
Director of Academic Resources, Learning Resources Center
Richland Community College, One College Park, Decatur, IL 62521
Phone: 217 875 7211 ext 294 Email: [removed]@richland.edu

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