Fiction Book Lists and Titles Available from Mabee Library

Here are some fiction suggestions from the experts(!), with call numbers next to listed books that Mabee Library owns:

Modern Library

Board's List

1. ULYSSES by James Joyce (PR6019.O9 U4)
2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald (PS3511.I9 G8)
3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce (PR6019.O9 P6)
4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov (PS3527.A15 L6)
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley (PR6015.U9 B7)

Reader's List

1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand (PS3535.A547 A94)
2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand (PS3535.A547 F6)
3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard (PS3558.U23 B3)
4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien (PR6039.O32 L6)
5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee (PS3562.E353 T6)

Time Magazine's Top 100 English-language Novels Since 1923

This list is in alphabetical order.

The Observer

1. DON QUIXOTE by Miguel De Cervantes (PQ6329 .A2)
2. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by John Bunyan (PR3330 .A1)
3. ROBINSON CRUSOE by Daniel Defoe (PR3403 .A1)
4. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS by Jonathan Swift (PR3724 .G7)
5. TOM JONES by Henry Fielding (PR3454 .H5)

The BBC's Big Read

1. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by JRR Tolkien (PR6039.O32 L6)
2. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen (PR4034 .P7)
3. HIS DARK MATERIALS by Philip Pullman (YA PUL Curric. Lib.)
4. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams (PR6051.D3352 H57)
5. HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE by JK Rowling (ROW Curric. Lib.)

Guardian Unlimited's Top 100 Books of All Time

This list is alphbetical by author, but the judges named Don Quixote (PQ6329 .A2) as the top novel in history.

The Albeit Unscientific but Pretension-Free Powell's Top 25 (A Rebuttal to the Modern Library's Top 100)

1. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston (PS3515.U789 T639)
2. BELOVED by Toni Morrison (PS3563.O8749 B4)
3. BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
4. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee (PS3562.E353 T6)
5. THE COLOR PURPLE by Alice Walker (PS3573.A425 C6)

The Waterboro Library's Booklists and Bibliographies

The Waterboro Library in East Waterboro, Maine has an interesting page on its Web site that catalogues an extensive collection of booklists and biographies. The booklists and bibliographies are separated by genre and include: Chick Lit, Classics and Great Books, Crime Novels and Mysteries, Graphic Novels, Sports Fiction, Westerns, Young Adult, and Children. With each genre are links to Web sites with "Best-of" lists or lists with representative titles from the genre.