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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
41
Joan Didion
Dispatches
Dispatches
42
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever
43
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
44
John Kennedy Toole
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
45
Salman Rushdie
Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
Cathedral
46
Raymond Carver
On Food and Cooking
On Food and Cooking
47
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
48
David Foster Wallace
Birds of America (Lorrie Moore)
Birds of America
49
Lorrie Moore
Varieties of Disturbance
Varieties of Disturbance
50
The Long Goodbye (Raymond Chandler)
The Long Goodbye
51
Raymond Chandler
Poems by Rumi
Poems by Rumi
52
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
53
Miguel De Cervantes
Holy Bible (Anonymous)
Holy Bible
54
Anonymous
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
Tristram Shandy
55
Laurence Sterne
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
56
William Blake
John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) (John Keats)
John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
57
John Keats
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
58
Walt Whitman
Les Fleurs Du Mal (Charles Baudelaire)
Les Fleurs Du Mal
59
Charles Baudelaire
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary
60
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
61
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Custom of the Country (Edith Wharton)
The Custom of the Country
62
Edith Wharton
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
63
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
64
Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
65
William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
66
William Faulkner
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
67
Jean-Paul Sartre
Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov)
Speak, Memory
68
Vladimir Nabokov
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
69
Ernest Hemingway
Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
Mythology
70
Edith Hamilton
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
71
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
72
Albert Camus
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
Waiting for Godot
73
Samuel Beckett
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
74
Emily Dickinson
Howl (Allen Ginsberg)
Howl
75
Allen Ginsberg
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago
76
Boris Pasternak
The Americans (Robert Frank)
The Americans
77
Robert Frank
The Once and Future King (T.H. White)
The Once and Future King
78
T.H. White
Mrs Bridge (Evan S Connell)
Mrs Bridge
79
Evan S Connell
Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut)
Sirens of Titan
80
Kurt Vonnegut
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