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The Ideal Library

100 prominent cultural figures, mostly writers, were polled for their choice of an "ideal library". The following list is a tally of the books that were chosen the most often.
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First Folio
First Folio
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Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
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The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor (Flannery O'Connor)
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
4
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Wallace Stevens)
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
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Stories: Anton Chekhov
Stories: Anton Chekhov
7
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
James Joyce
8
Windup Bird Chronicle
Windup Bird Chronicle
9
Jesus' Son
Jesus' Son
10
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
11
The Collected Fiction of Jose Luis Borges (Jose Luis Borges)
The Collected Fiction of Jose Luis Borges
Jose Luis Borges
12
Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams (William Carlos Williams)
Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
13
Nine Stories (J.D. Salinger)
Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger
14
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
15
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
16
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
17
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop
18
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
19
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
20
The Life of Samuel Johnson
The Life of Samuel Johnson
21
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
22
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
23
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
George Eliot
24
Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll
25
The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White
The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White
26
Duino Elegies
Duino Elegies
27
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
28
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
29
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
30
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
31
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier
32
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
33
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
34
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
35
The Poems of Dylan Thomas
The Poems of Dylan Thomas
36
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
37
Collected Essays
Collected Essays
38
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
39
Lunch Poems (Frank O'Hara)
Lunch Poems
Frank O'Hara
40
The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
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