Taking off the Reading Gloves

This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

About this list

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 36 Books

This list was published in the Fort Worth Star Telegram on Sunday, July 26th, 1998. It's mostly in response to the infamous Modern Library 100 list. The Star-Telegram assembled a group of well-read staffers and community members to write about their favorite books.

I have aggregated them all and added them to a single list.

This list has 9 voters, and each of the voter's names are listed in the article

This list was originally published in 1998 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
26 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 American English
9 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929 American English
253 Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe 1929 American English
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
658 Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner 1971 American English
7689 The Time It Never Rained Elmer Kelton 1973 American English
149 All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren 1946 American English
718 Possession A. S. Byatt 1990 British English
623 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985 American English
88 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1916 Irish English
751 All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy 1992 American English
2285 The Crossing Cormac McCarthy 1994 American English
3902 Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy 1998 American English
50 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
3578 Mercy Of A Rude Stream Henry Roth 1994 American English
107 Native Son Richard Wright 1940 American English
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
168 Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934 American English
2716 Something Happened Joseph Heller 1974 American English
413 The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer 1948 American English
391 Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather 1927 American English
141 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1945 British English
8007 The Eye Of The Storm Patrick White 1973 Australian English
466 A Death in the Family James Agee 1957 American English
33 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 American English
286 The Once and Future King T. H. White 1958 British English
261 Wings of the Dove Henry James 1902 American English
1823 Stuart Little E. B. White 1945 American English
753 Henderson The Rain King Saul Bellow 1959 American English
182 The Moviegoer Walker Percy 1961 American English
7006 Leaving Cheyenne Larry McMurtry 1963 American English
1231 The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington 1918 American English
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
7133 Desolation Angels Jack Kerouac 1965 American English
157 The Color Purple Alice Walker 1982 American English