Jill did the book meme on her blog which led to a blog of one of her friends who had coincidentally done a similar book meme on the very same day. (Whoa dude!)
The friend's list was “10 Books You Think Everyone Should Read”. I'm duplicating a couple picks from my other list but here you go…
1. Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
2. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
3. Behold The Man – Michael Moorcock
4. Time's Arrow – Martin Amis
5. Down To This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big City Shanty-Town – Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
6. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer A Man Who Would Cure The World – Tracy Kidder
7. Not Wanted on the Voyage – Timothy Findley
8. Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs At The Turn of the Millennium – John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, Sabin Streeter (eds)
9. The Cay – Theodore Taylor
10. Stuck in Neutral – Terry Trueman
As you can tell, I tried to stay away from the “canon” classics – both adult and children's – because everybody knows you should read them. Otherwise, I'd stand by these picks as some of the “best of the best” of all the books I've ever read.
(MeShell says that everybody at FIMS is reading this blog so come out of the woodwork people! Put your own lists in the comments. This type of list is custom-made for librarians – how can you resist? Just do a Top Five if you don't want to put off your RQ's or Cataloguing essays or co-op jobs for too long. If you're a prof, you can post anonymously – I can't tell where you're posting from, honest.)
Random Librarian Trivia of the Day: Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every section of the Dewey Decimal System (via Amy's blog).
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