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Jan 08, 2011 04:36PM

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Guess I know where my preferences lie!

Guess I know where my preferences lie!"
Definitely my favorite list as well. Why not find wonder in unexpected places?


I think that would be a very good idea.



I think that would be a very good idea."
Stand up on your pulpit, and preach, Preach, PREACH.
*raises hand and votes Aye*

Something you don't happen to believe in? Just found this list, and I too, like about 85-90% of it.

Something you don't happen to believe in? Just found this list, and I too, like about 85-90% of it."
I certainly don't remember the titles, since it has been almost 2 years since I deleted them.

Maybe it's an idea to mention the books you remove in the comments section, like a lot of librarians do? As far as I can tell, a total of 11 books have been deleted by Spooky, Cindy and yourself, yet no mention is made which books were deleted, which is a bit of a pity really.

I do have a forthcoming list that I maintain (deleting books as they are released) and on that one I post books that have at least five votes before deleting it.

I've removed Wuthering Heights (#541) and Moby-Dick or, The Whale (#783) again, as I totally agree: They're fiction and as such shouldn't be on this list.
Voter, please read before you decide to add!




Interesting discussion about fiction vs. non-fiction. One can learn as many "truths" from fiction as from non-fiction, imo. And, anyway, how much do we now value truth?

Fight Club, Fahrenheit 451, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next, A Clockwork Orange, Invisible Monsters, American Psycho.
You can play semantic games as to what constitutes a truth criterion but the genre of non-fiction is pretty well defined, and explicitly focus on facts, real events, actual people, etc.


A History of the World in 6 Glasses
The Victorian Internet
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
Oak: The Frame of Civilization
Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules



Yes, This list has been neglected.... and it's a great list topic. I just deleted one novel off the first page that had 68 votes! So this list hasn't been cleaned up in quite awhile. I deleted a few fiction but there's many more to delete - and easy to find. "Have at it" you fellow librarians.


Clearly the concept 'non-fiction' is hard to grasp for a lot of people...

Mary Roach has a number of books that could go on this list.


Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White (#848)
Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice (around page 11)
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (#1347)
The Hate U Give (#1527) by Angie Thomas
Five books in a row on page 19 (around #1799)
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles #1869
The Paris Wife, there are two other books right below I think are also fiction.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman #2079
The Phantom by Jo Nesbo #2232
Everything I never Told You by Celeste Ng #2274
The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lyn Barnes, the Marriage Pact, Tom Clancy's Dead or Alive on pg. 25
The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson #2627,
The Bourne Legacy by Eric Lustbader #2717
The Road by Cormac McCarthy #3026

Fiction that I noticed:
#635: Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
#676: The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
#700: Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
#749: Glue by Irvine Welsh
#757: Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
#757: Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
#757: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
#824: Blindness by Jose Saramago
#849: The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson
#878: Under the Skin by Michael Faber
#884: Money by Martin Amis
#888: Her One Mistake by Heidi Perks
#908: Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley
#935: Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
#939: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
#949: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
#963: Darkness Visible by William Golding
#977: The Coma by Alex Garland
#977: Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan
#985: The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh
#985: Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
#985: 1984 by George Orwell
#994: The Need by Helen Phillips
#1003: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
#1008: The Grifters by Jim Thompson
#1010: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
#1017: Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
#1020: The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
#1026: Crank by Ellen Hopkins
#1028: Piercing by Ryu Murakami
#1028: The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
#1064: Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain
#1072: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
#1074: The Crow Road by Iain Banks
#1085: Naked in Death by J.D. Robb
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