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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 (Joan Didion)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
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 (Raymond Carver)
Cathedral
Raymond Carver
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 (Raymond Chandler)
The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler
52
Poems by Rumi
Poems by Rumi
53
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes
54
Holy Bible (Anonymous)
Holy Bible
Anonymous
55
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
Tristram Shandy
Laurence Sterne
56
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake
57
John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) (John Keats)
John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
John Keats
58
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
59
Les Fleurs Du Mal (Charles Baudelaire)
Les Fleurs Du Mal
Charles Baudelaire
60
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary
61
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
62
The Custom of the Country (Edith Wharton)
The Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton
63
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
64
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
65
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
66
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
67
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
68
Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov)
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
69
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
70
Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
Mythology
Edith Hamilton
71
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
72
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
Albert Camus
73
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
74
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
75
Howl (Allen Ginsberg)
Howl
Allen Ginsberg
76
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
77
The Americans (Robert Frank)
The Americans
Robert Frank
78
The Once and Future King (T.H. White)
The Once and Future King
T.H. White
79
Mrs Bridge (Evan S Connell)
Mrs Bridge
Evan S Connell
80
Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut)
Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
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