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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

184 Books YOU Love

If RFS-ers were in charge of picking the literature that survived a global catastrophe, these are the books our society would be rebuilt on...

16 Readers picked :

Bible/Scriptures - various

6 Readers picked:

The Hunger Games (and here) - Suzanne Collins

(One of the) Harry Potter books (also here, here, here and here) - J.K. Rowling

(One of the) Lord of the Rings Books - J.R.R. Tolkien

4 Readers picked:

Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

3 Readers picked:

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Pride and Prejudice (we've only reviewed the Zombie one) - Jane Austen

The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale

The Help (and here) - Kathryn Stockett

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein

2 Readers Picked:

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

Jane Austen books

Jodi Picoult books (like here, here and here)

Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley

Outlander - Diana Gabaldon

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

The Book Thief (and here) - Markus Zusak

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon

The Giver - Lois Lowry

The Sneetches - Dr. Suess

The Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer

Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

1 Reader picked:

1-2-3 Magic - Thomas W. Phelan

A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeleine L'Engle

A Trip to the Beach - Melinda Blanchard

Amarcord: Marcella Remembers - Marcella Hazan

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

Brian Keene books

Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Beautiful Darkness - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Big Girl - Danielle Steel

Billie Standish was Here - Nancy Crocker

Bitter is the New Black (or here) - Jen Lancaster

Bitter Sweets - Roopa Farooki

Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink

Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson

Calvin's Institutes (in one volume) - John Calvin

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

Caught - Harlan Coben

Chelsea Handler books

Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith

Children's Writers and Illustrators Market - Alice Pope

Chocolate Beach - Julie Carobini

Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare

City of Bones - Cassandra Clare

Dead to the World - Charlaine Harris

Desiring God - John Piper

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! - Mo Willems

Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

Elegance of a Hedgehog (or here) - Muriel Barbery

Eva Luna - Isabel Allende

Fablehaven : Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary - Brandon Mull

Fablehaven : Keys to the Demon Prison - Brandon Mull

Forever Amber - Kathleen Winsor

Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger

Freckles - Gene Stratton Porter

Future Grace - John Piper

Georgette Heyer books

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett

Grimm's Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm

Hand Tool Essentials - Popular Woodworking Editors

Hotel on Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford

House Rules - Jodi Picoult

How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly - Connie May Fowler

How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr. Seuss

I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb

Inkdeath - Cornelia Funke

Innocent - Scott Turow

Jeffery Deaver books

Jelly Roll : Poems - Allen Ginsberg

Juliet - Anne Fortier

Junie B. Jones (series) - Barbara Park

Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Lightning - Dean Koontz

Little Bee - Chris Cleave

Love, Lucy - Lucille Ball

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson

Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis

Michael Connelly books

Miracle in the Andes - Nando Parrado & Vince Rause

Moloka'i - Alan Brennert

Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder

Mudbound - Hilary Jordan

The Dream Encyclopedia - James R. Lewis

My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Nicholas Sparks books (like here, here, and here)

No, David! - David Shannon

North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

One Fish, Two Fish - Dr. Seuss

Patricia Cornwell books

Pearl of China - Anchee Min

Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie

Polgar's chess puzzles - Lazlo Polgar

Pomegranate Soup - Marsha Mehran

Raven Stole the Moon - Garth Stein

Robert Ludlum books

Rosie Dunne - Cecilia Ahern

Secret Keeper - Mitali Perkins

Secrets of Eden - Chris Bohjalian

Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Serendipity - Stephen Cosgrove

Shanna - Kathleen Woodiwiss

Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane

Skeletons at the Feast - Chris Bohjalian

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Sloppy Firsts - Megan McCafferty

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You - Peter Cameron

Sookie Stackhouse series - Charlaine Harris

Stardust - Neil Gaiman

Survive! - Les Stroud

Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon

Tennyson - Lesley M.M. Blume

The 1850 manners book

The Baseball Box Prophesy - Bruce Newbold

The Blue Castle - L.M. Montgomery

The Boy Detective Fails - Joe Meno

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

The Collector - John Fowles

The Complete Lewis Carol

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

The Darkest Kiss - Gena Showalter

The Darkest Night - Gena Showalter

The Energy Bus - Jon Gordon

The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson

The Girls - Lori Lansens

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (and here and here) - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

The Host (and here) - Stephenie Meyer

The House of Night series - P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

The Ice Queen - Alice Hoffman

The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury

The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown

The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken - Laura Schenone

Archaeology of the Mary Rose (Volume 4) - Julie Gardiner

The Night Trilogy - Elie Wiesel

The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

The Piano Man's Daughter - Timoth Findley

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

The Princess Bride - William Goldman

The Red Tent - Anita Diamant

The Reluctant Heiress - Eva Ibbotson

The Sandman (Series) - Neil Gaiman

The SAS Survival Handbook - John Wiseman

The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister

The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd

The Stand - Stephen King

The Summerhouse - Jude Devereaux

The Tales of O. Henry - Nextext

The Tummy Mummy - Michelle Madrid-Branch

The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

The Weight of Silence - Heather Gudenkauf

The Work and the Glory - Gerald N. Lund

The Yada Yada Prayer Group - Neta Jackson

The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks

These is my Words - Nancy Turner

Timothy Findley books

Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

Under The Dome - Stephen King

Vampire Academy Series - Richelle Mead

Van Gogh's Bad Cafe : A Love Story - Frederic Tuten

Wednesday is Spaghetti Day - Maryann Cocca-Leffler

West with the Night - Beryl Markham

Winter Garden - Kristin Hannah

Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Zoya - Danielle Steel

What do you think? Is there hope for future generations?

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