Cape Coral Public Library's Must-Read Books for the Summer

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

About this list

The staff of the Cape Coral Public Library have put forward a list of "must read" books to read in the summer.

Who voted?
It's hard to tell from the newspaper clipping but I am going to assume 6 people based on the text of the article

This list was originally published in 2001 and was added to this site about 1 year ago.

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Rank	Book	Authors	Year	Country	Language
7169	The Everglades	Marjory Stoneman Douglas	1947	American	English
12608	Early Fort Myers	Alberta C. Barnes		Unknown	Unknown
7169	The Man In Lower Ten	Mary Roberts Rinehart	1909	American	English
218	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	1886	British	English
1243	Kidnapped	Robert Louis Stevenson	1886	British	English
115	Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	1883	British	English
1057	The Master of Ballantrae	Robert Louis Stevenson	1889	British	English
18	The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1880	Russian	Russian
987	Harriet the Spy	Louise Fitzhugh	1964	American	English
534	Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie	1988	British	English
146	The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien	1937	British	English
54	The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	1952	American	English
4451	Gift From The Sea	Anne Morrow Lindbergh	1955	American	English
234	The Chronicles of Narnia	C. S. Lewis	1950	British	English
17	The Lord Of The Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien	1959	English	English
1846	Swiss Family Robinson	Johann David Wyss	1812	Swiss	German
339	The Adventures of Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens	1837	British	English
170	Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	1937	American	English
507	The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	1826	American	English
11	Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1866	Russian	Russian
601	The House of the Seven Gables	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1851	American	English
69	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	1719	British	English
1338	Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury	1962	American	English
459	The Island of Doctor Moreau	H. G. Wells	1896	British	English
67	A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway	1929	American	English
7	Moby-Dick	Herman Melville	1851	American	English
5	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez	1967	Colombian	Spanish
88	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce	1916	Irish	English
12	War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	1869	Russian	Russian
20	Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	1857	French	French
9	The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	1929	American	English
287	Jude the Obscure	Thomas Hardy	1895	British	English
2	In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust	1913	French	French
1	Ulysses	James Joyce	1922	Irish	English