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Top 100 Favorite Books of Glendorans
Posted Date: 5/1/2012

What are Glendora's favorite books?

As we celebrate
the beginnings of the Library
with the Woman's Club,
we wanted to know!

The results have been tabulated and are listed below:
100 titles for adults, 100 for youth,
in honor of our centennial!

 Books for Adults
(alphabetical by title)

 

 Books for Youth 
(alphabetical by title)

Title Author   Title Author
1984 Orwell   Abner and Me Gutman
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle   Al Capone Does My Shirts Choldenko
The Alchemist Coelho   Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll
The Alibi Brown   All-of-a-kind Family Taylor
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Chabon   Amelia Bedelia Parish 
Angela's Ashes McCourt   The American Girls (series) Adler
Animal Farm Orwell   Animorphs (series) Applegate
The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel Stein   Anne of Green Gables Montgomery
Atlas Shrugged Rand   Are You My Mother? Eastman
Aunt Dimity's Death Atherton   Because of Winn Dixie DiCamillo
Beautiful Glendora Jackson   The Berenstain Bears (series) Berenstain
Bel Canto: a novel Patchett   The BFG Dahl
Black Like Me Griffin   Big Nate (series) Pierce
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking Gladwell   Blood Ninja Lake
The Bonfire of the Vanities Wolfe   Books of Bayern Hale
Catch-22 Heller   The Cat in the Hat Seuss
The Catcher in the Rye Salinger   The Cay Taylor
A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive Pelzer   Charlotte's Web White
Childhood's End Clarke   The Chronicles of Narnia Lewis
A Clockwork Orange Burgess   The City of Ember DuPrau
Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success Wooden   City of Glass Clare
Cold Sassy Tree Burns    The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh Milne
Confessions Augustine   The Crook who Took the Book Keene
The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas   Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy Carter
Cutting for Stone: A Novel Verghese   Curious George Rey
The Da Vinci Code Brown   Diary of a Wimpy Kid Kinney
Deception Point  Brown   The Doll People Martin
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Tyler   Dr. Seuss' ABC Seuss
Dune Herbert   Esperanza Rising Ryan
Earth's Children (series) Auel   Evermore Noel
East of Eden Steinbeck   Fancy Nancy (series) O'Connor
The Elfstones of Shannara Brooks   Frog and Toad Lobel 
False Memory Koontz   The Frog Prince,  Continued Scieszka
The First 100 Years : Glendora 1887-1987 Centennial     Fudge-a-mania Blume
The Girl Who Played with Fire Larsson   The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Valente
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Larsson   The Giving Tree Silverstein
The Godfather Puzo   Goodnight Moon Brown
Gone with the Wind Mitchell   Goosebumps Stine 
The Good Earth Buck   Green Eggs and Ham Seuss 
The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck   Gregor the Overlander Collins
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald   The Grouchy Ladybug Carle
The Help Stockett   Harry Potter(series) Rowling
The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again Tolkien   Hatchet Paulsen
The Holy Bible     The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams
The Host  Meyer   Holes Sachar
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Ford   Hop on Pop Seuss 
Hour Game Baldacci   How the Grinch Stole Christmas Seuss
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences Capote   The Hunger Games Collins
Jane Eyre Bronte   If you give a …  (series) Numeroff
John Adams McCullough   Island of the Blue Dolphins O'Dell
Journey to the Centre of the Earth Verne   Jacob Have I Loved Paterson
The Killer Angels Shaara   Janice VanCleave's Math for Every Kid VanCleave
Killing Lincoln:The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever O'Reilly   Just a Dream Van Allsburg
The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love Medlicott   Kiki Strike (series) Miller
Les Misérables Hugo   The Last Knight Bell
Like Water for Chocolate Esquivel   The Lightning Thief Riordan
The Litigators Grisham   Little Bear Minarik
Little Britches Moody   The Little House on the Prairie (series) Wilder
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien   Little Women Alcott
Maisie Dobbs (series) Winspear   Loser Spinelli
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah story Berendt   The Magic Pumpkin Martin
Moby Dick; or, The Whale Melville   The Magic Tree House (series) Osborne
Morning Glory Spencer   Midnight Magic Avi
My Antonia Cather   Mister Seahorse  Carle
Night Wiesel   Mr. Happy Hargreaves
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency McCall Smith   Mr. Popper's Penguins Atwater
The Notebook  Sparks   Music of Dolphins Hesse
The Old Man and the Sea  Hemingway   My Weird School (series) Gutman
One for the Money Evanovich   The Napping House Wood
Outlander (series) Gabaldon   Number the Stars Lowry
Paths of Glory Archer   Oh Say can you Say? Seuss 
People of the Book Brooks   Origami Yoda (series) Angleberger
The Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan   Out of My Mind Draper
The Pillars of the Earth Follett   The Outsiders Hinton
The Poisonwood Bible: a novel Kingsolver   Perelandra: a novel Lewis
A Prayer for Owen Meany: a novel Irving   Peter Pan Barrie
Pride and Prejudice Austen   Pokemon  various
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Goldman   Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear  Martin
Redeeming Love: a novel Rivers   The Polar Express Van Allsburg
Sacred Hearts Dunant   Rainbow Magic Fairies (series) Meadows
Safe Haven Sparks   The Runaway Bunny Brown
The Secret Life of Bees Kidd   The Secret Garden Burnett
A Separate Peace Knowles   A Series of Unfortunate Events Snicket
Shanghai Girls: a novel See   Sir Small and the Dragonfly O'Connor
The Shipping News Proulx   The Swiss Family Robinson Wyss
The Silmarillion Tolkien   Switched Hocking
Slaughterhouse-five Vonnegut   Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Steig
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Le Carre   Ten Apples up on Top LeSieg
Steve Jobs Isaacson   Things Not Seen Clements
Sunset Western Garden Books     Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork Hunt
This Fabulous Century Time-Life Books   The Twilight Saga Meyer
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee   Uncle Elephant Lobel 
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resiliance, and Redemption Hillenbrand   What Happened to Goodbye Dessen
Up Country:a novel DeMille   Where the Sidewalk Ends Silverstein
The Walk Evans   Where the Wild Things Are Sendak
Water For Elephants: A Novel Gruen   Who will be my Friend? Hoff
Water Like a Stone: a Novel Crombie   The Wind in the Willows Grahame
Watership Down Adams   The World's Dumbest Criminals Butler
World Without End Follett   A Wrinkle in Time L'Engle
Wuthering Heights Bronte   Yertle the Turtle Seuss