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The Ideal Library - Page 2

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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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
42
Dispatches
Dispatches
43
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever
44
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
45
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
46
Cathedral
Cathedral
47
On Food and Cooking
On Food and Cooking
48
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
49
Birds of America
Birds of America
50
Varieties of Disturbance
Varieties of Disturbance
51
The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye
52
Poems by Rumi
Poems by Rumi
53
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
54
Holy Bible
Holy Bible
55
Tristram Shandy
Tristram Shandy
56
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
57
John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) (John Keats)
John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) (John Keats)
58
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass
59
Les Fleurs Du Mal
Les Fleurs Du Mal
60
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary
61
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
62
The Custom of the Country
The Custom of the Country
63
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
64
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms
65
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
66
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom!
67
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
68
Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov)
Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov)
69
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls
70
Mythology
Mythology
71
The Little Prince
The Little Prince
72
The Plague
The Plague
73
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot
74
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
75
Howl
Howl
76
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
77
The Americans (Robert Frank)
The Americans (Robert Frank)
78
The Once and Future King
The Once and Future King
79
Mrs Bridge (Evan S Connell)
Mrs Bridge (Evan S Connell)
80
Sirens of Titan
Sirens of Titan
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