Plattekill Public Library

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128 Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand

127 Give Me Bach My Schubert
by Brian P. Cleary

73 Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace

64 The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien

62 Jamaica Sandwich?
by Brian P. Cleary

59 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey

53 Catch 22
by Joseph Heller

50 To Kill A Mockingbird
by Harper Lee

48 The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant
by Steven Donaldson

47 A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess

44 The Dune Chronicles
by Frank Herbert

41 The Bible

40 Animal Farm
by George Orwell

33 Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective?
by Brian P. Cleary

32 Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

31 Emma
by Jane Austen

30 I Have a Margaret Cho Fetish
by Keith Michael

25 Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card

25 Left Behind
by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

24 The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger

23 Rainbow Six
by Tom Clancy

21 Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert Heinlein

19 The Hyperion Series
by Dan Simmons

18 The Cluetrain Manifesto
by Levine, Locke, Searls, Weinberger

18 Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden

17 A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving

16 The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams

14 Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry

13 Starship Troopers
by Robert Heinlein

13 A Wrinkle inTime
by Madaline L'Engle

13 Villians By Necessity
by Eve Forward

13 Swan Song
by Robert McCammon

12 Tuesday's with Morrie
by Albom, Mitch

12 A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole

12 Harry Potter and the Sorcers Stone
by JK Rowling

11 A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens

11 I Have A Big Afro
by Mike Frolik

10 Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon

10 Slaughterhouse - Five
by Kurt Vonnegut

10 The Foundation Series
by Issac Asimov

10 Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov

9 The Illuminatus Trilogy
by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea

9 The Dark Tower: Wastelands
by Stephen King

9 Grace Plus Nothing
by Jeff Harkin

9 Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling

9 Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte

8 great expectation
by charles dickens

7 Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

7 "All the King's Men"
by Robert Penn Warren

7 The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

6 The Dilbert Principle
by Scott Adams

6 "Kingdom Of Dreams"
by by Judith McNaught

6 Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck

6 A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry

5 Apollyon
by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

5 1984
by George Orwell

5 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers

5 Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley

5 Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville

5 Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut

4 Sliver
by Ira Levin

4 At home in Mitford
by Jan Karon

4 Redwall
by Brian Jacques

4 The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck

3 The Golden Compass
by Phillip Pullman

3 Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie

3 The Stars My Destination
by Alfred Bester

3 Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

3 Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3 The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowing
by Carlos Castenada

3 The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy

3 Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3 The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway

3 A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster

3 The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce

3 Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad

3 The Investigator's Little Black2
by Robert Scott

3 The Partner
by John Grisham

3 Les Miserables
by Victor Hugo

3 One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2 the giver
by lois lowry

2 Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
by Marian Keyes

2 Incident At Twenty-Mile
by Trevanian

2 The Gap Into Conflict Series
by Stephen R. Donaldson

2 Steppenwolf
by Herman Hesse

2 Lord of the Flies
by William Golding

2 The Perfect Storm
by Sebastian Junger

2 Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson

2 American Psycho
by Brett Easton Ellis

2 The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

2 To Hold Infinity
by John Meaney

2 Master and Commander
by Patrick O'Brian

2 Shadow of a gunman
by Sean O'Casey

2 The House of Sleep
by Jonathon Coe

2 Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev

2 A Confession
by Leo Tolstoy

2 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo

2 Tess of the D'ubervilles
by Thomas Hardy

2 The Moon and the Sixpence
by Somerset Maugham

2 The Trial
by Franz Kafka

2 Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence

2 Buddenbrooks
by Thomas Mann

2 The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann

2 Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon

1 Distraction
by Bruce Sterling

1 The Gate to Women's Country
by Sherri Tepper

1 Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
by Richard Carlson

1 Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

1 A Canticle For Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

1 Cry, the Peacock
by Anita Desai

1 Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn

1 Prospero's Children
by Jan Siegel

1 Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon

1 The Diviners
by Margaret Lawrence

1 beloved
by toni morrison

1 Brighton Rock
by Graham Greene

1 Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace

1 Trinity
by Leon Uris

1 The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck

1 The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain

1 Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift

1 Permutation City
by Greg Egan

1 White Fang
by Jack London

1 Two Dog River
by Richard Day

1 This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1 Eye of the World
by Robert Jordan

1 Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis de Bernieres

1 The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles

1 ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTIN
by RICKY BRAGG

1 Big Rock Candy Mountain
by Wallace Stegner

1 The Castle
by Franz Kafka

1 the collapse of chaos
by ian anderson and jack cohen

1 Unspeakable
by Sandra Brown

1 Crashing Down
by Meg O'Brien

1 Zombie
by Joyce Carol Oates

1 Silence of the Lambs
by Jonathan Harris

1 Durable Goods
by Elizabeth Berg

1 The Deerslayer
by James F. Cooper

1 Possession
by A. S. Byatt

1 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers

1 The Player Of Games
by Iain M Banks

1 She's Come Undone
by Wally Lamb

1 A House for Mr Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul

1 Of Human Bondage
by Somerset Maugham

1 Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy

1 Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann

1 Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert

1 The Razor's Edge
by Somerset Maugham

1 The Citadel
by A. J. Cronin

1 Rabbit, Run
by John Updike

1 Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez