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

About this list

The Daily Spectrum , 46 Books

Four prominent people in Utah (an English professor, a bookstore owner, a historian, and a librarian) list their personal essential reads that everyone should own.

This list was originally published in 2000 and was added to this site about 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
778 The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss 1957 American English
1489 Abraham Lincoln, Speeches And Letters Abraham Lincoln 1907 American English
14232 The Sweet Hereafter Russell Banks 1991 American English
163 Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1922 German German
88 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1916 Irish English
2625 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell 1949 American English
2109 Oxford English Dictionary Oxford University Press 1884 British English
17152 I Can't Accept Not Trying Michael Jordan 1994 American English
1436 Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke 1929 Austrian German
17152 The Marriage Of Sense And Soul Ken Wilber 1998 American English
17 The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1959 English English
8670 The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom 1971 Dutch English
9130 Mutant Message Down Under Marlo Morgan 1991 American English
17152 The Book Of Virtues William Bennett 1993 American English
17152 The Great American Bathroom Book Stevens W. Anderson 2007 American English
2606 Ender's Game Orson Scott Card 1985 American English
17152 The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook Joshua Piven 2001 American English
17152 In The Checklist Of Life Lynn McPhelimy 1997 Unknown English
17152 Believing Christ Stephen E. Robinson 1992 American English
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
17152 I Was Called To Dixie Andrew Karl Larson 1961 Unknown English
17152 Quicksand And Cactus Juanita Brooks 1982 American English
655 Stories of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway 1987 American English
14985 Wolf Willow Wallace Stegner 1962 American English
10822 The Ox Bow Incident Walter Van Tilburg Clark 1940 American 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
14985 An Outside Chance Thomas McGuane 1980 American English
1716 Lake Wobegon Days Garrison Keillor 1985 American English
17152 Winter Count Barry Lopez 1981 American English
2366 Little Big Man Thomas Berger 1964 American English
17152 Graven Images Paul Fleischman 1982 American English
1877 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier 1997 American English
129 First Folio William Shakespeare 1623 British English
229 Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville 1835 French French
404 The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay 1787 American English
693 Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder 1935 American English
65 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 British English
15910 Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens J. M. Barrie 1906 British English
14171 A Child's Garden Of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson 1885 American English
146 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 British English
16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
2974 Tuesdays With Morrie Mitch Albom 1997 American English
17152 Having Our Say Amy Hill Hearth, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Sarah Louise Delany 1993 American English
58 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936 American English