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The library thread and someone's post therein got me wondering about what books I would absolutely put in a library.
If you had to contribute five books to a library that you thought could absolutely not be missed out, what five books would you enter? If a book has already been entered it is already in the library. It's not your favourite books, it's the books that would make a well stocked (in your opinion) library.
Mine are:
1. Virgil's The Aeneid 2. A book of T.S. Eliot's Poems 3. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 4. The BFG by Roald Dahl 5. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
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1. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman 2. The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963 - Christopher Curtis 3. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 4. The Complete Works of Shakespeare 5. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
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1. The Iliad 2. The Odyssey 3. A one-volume set of Lord of the Rings. The way it's supposed to be. 4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 5. an unabridged English language dictionary
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Five copies of Mark Halperin's A Winter's Tale . No idea what it's about, just remember being astonished that the library had so many copies when I was a kid. Amazon review for the morbidly curious
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The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (all-inclusive volume) - Douglas Adams Walden - Henry D. Thoreau Complete Poems and Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe ;-)
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll Raggedy Anne Stories - Johnny Gruelle
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Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen Maps in a Mirror, by OSC Foundation, by Isaac Asimov Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle
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I'm gonna cheat and count serieseseses as one:
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis American Gods - Neil Gaiman The Dark Tower series - Stephen King The Indian in the Cupboard books - Lynne Reid Banks Time Enough for Love - Robert Heinlein
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Call of the Wild Jack London Great Expectations Charles Dickens The Chosen Chaim Potok Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
As far as late fees, I rather like my library. It doesn't have late fees, but if you have it longer than two months they might assume it's lost and charge you for it, but if you bring it in and show it them they'll credit your account so you won't have to pay. It was a big shock coming to college to find a dollar a day for a late book! Don't I pay tuition here, there's no need to charge me for keeping the copy of "Ecology and Literature" a day late.
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(I too am cheating and naming series as one)
Uplift Series (all six) by David Brin The Rigante Series(all four) By David Gemmel I, Robot by Isaac Asimov The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
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Those books scared my freaking pants off as a child. I went with my roommates to buy them a few years ago because we all had funny memories of them, and I couldn't do it because they were too freaky. It wasn't the stories as much as the illustrations... *shudder*
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Adam: God's Beloved, Fr. Henri Nowen Carmina, Catullus The Dark is Rising Series, Susan Cooper The Complete Asterix Series, Goscinny and Uderzo Romance of Arthur (4th Ed.)Posts: 2849 | Registered: Feb 2002
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The Complete Works of Plato Descarte's Meditations on First Philosophy Mill's On Liberty Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Popper's The Open Society and it's Enemies
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quote: 1. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman 2. The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963 - Christopher Curtis 3. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 4. The Complete Works of Shakespeare 5. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
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Fluff- The Belgariad by David Eddings Children- Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce Literature- My Name is Asher Lev by Potok Drama- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Other- In an Antique LandPosts: 4655 | Registered: Jan 2002
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Sci-Fi -- Dune Fantasy -- Incarnations series, Peirs Anthony (Kind of a mix in fantasy and sci-fi, but I lean more to fantasy) Historical Fiction -- Roll of Thunder series Biography -- Masters of Doom (You gotta like that John Carmack) Children -- Ummm... Animorphs? I dunno for kids... Romance -- Dunno really... Drama -- Jeeze, I need to read some good Dramas.
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If you're gonna include animorphs only include 1 - 20 or so... they go drastically downhill after that. I completely gave up on them by about #40. What are they at now?
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Catcher in The Rye To Kill a Mockingbird All Harry Potter books in one volume The 9/11 commision report and, of course, The Da Vinci COde
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So, are we building on each other's submissions here? Assuming that this perfect library has all the books so far mentioned?
If we can have a "Complete Works of William Shakespear", can we have a "Complete Works of Mark Twain"?
I'm going to assume so, and go with: The OED The Complete Works of Mark Twain The Complete Works of Euripides (I love this "complete works" business!) A Song of Ice and Fire (in its entirity), by George R. R. Martin and... China Mountain Zhang, by Maureen McHugh.
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A Room with a View The Complete Works of Agatha Christie (because everyone needs some fun) Gulliver's Travels The Great Gatsby The Boy Scout Handbook
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::slips The Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe into his basket when no one is looking, hides it under the other books so no one will notice that he has six books rather than five::
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(I also think our library should get a subscription, and all the back issues, of National Geographic)
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Shogun by James Clavell The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Dragon's Blood by Jane Yolen The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Frank Baum's Oz series
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Any Rule against resurrecting really old topics? I hope not, since it's an obvious result of people being so often directed to the search function before starting threads! Let's see if I can add anything meaningful to this list. In no particular order (and omitting those already listed):
Dragon's Egg The Rama Series Speaker for the Dead Ender's Shadow (EG was already mentioned, and after reading them both in succession, I find ES to be much more fulfilling) Hiroshima
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