NYPL’s “125 Books We Love”
The New York Public Library is celebrating its 125th anniversary with a list of “125 Books We Love,” chosen by a team of librarians. The list includes many titles of genre interest.
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (Del Rey)
- Life After Life, Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur)
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster)
- Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central)
- The Stranger, Albert Camus (Knopf)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (Random House)
- The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever (Knopf)
- White Noise, Don DeLillo (Viking)
- A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan (Knopf)
- American Gods, Neil Gaiman (Morrow)
- Dune, Frank Herbert (Chilton)
- The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson (Viking)
- The Turn of the Screw, Henry James (Macmillan)
- The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
- The Shining, Stephen King (Doubleday)
- The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace)
- The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor)
- A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
- Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (Modern Library)
- Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (DC)
- Beloved, Toni Morrison (Knopf)
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (Knopf)
- 1984, George Orwell (Knopf)
- The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett (Harper)
- Naked in Death, J.D. Robb (Berkley)
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling (Scholastic)
- Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie (Knopf)
- Tenth of December, George Saunders (Bloomsbury)
- Slave to Sensation, Nalini Singh (Berkley)
- Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf)
- The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey)
- The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
For more information and the complete list, see the NYPL website.
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