 The End of National Library Week!
Winners of the book bag drawing - George Fajvan (Dennis), Brendon (Main Library), Jessica Lee (Sussex-Wantage), Ashley Wallis (Louise Childs), Julia G. (Dorothy Henry) , Kathy Callahan (Franklin)
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FAVORITE BOOKS!
STAFF FAVORITES
Books
Madeleine Korbel Albright - Memo to the President Elect
Robert Altman - The Sixties
Donna Andrews - Murder, with Peacocks (and series)
Ellen Baker – Keeping the House
John Barth - The Floating Opera and The End of the Road
Saul Bellow - Herzog
Brian Bendis - Powers, Volume One (graphic novel)
Elizabeth Berg
Maeve Binchy - The Copper Beech or Tara Road
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Sandra Brown
Nick Bruel - Bad Kitty
Bill Bryson - In a Sunburned Country , or A Walk in the Woods
Lois McMaster Bujold - Miles, Mystery & Mayhem (and series)
Olive Ann Burns - Cold Sassy Tree
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden
Jennifer Chiaverini - Elm Creek Quilters Series
Harlan Coben - The Woods
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl (and series)
Lucy Cousins – Maisy’s Rainbow Dream
Christina Crawford - Mommie Dearest
Clive Cussler - Iceberg (and series)
Sandra Dallas - Alice’s Tulips
Lindsey Davis – Marcus Didius Falco Series
Paula Deen – It Ain’t All About the Cookin’
Anita Diamant - The Red Tent
Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking
Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Emma Dodd – Dog’s Colorful Day
Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca
Janet Evanovich - The Stephanie Plum series
E. R. Frank - Life is Funny
Ina Garten-Barefoot Contessa Family Style & Barefoot Contessa at HomeWilliam Gibson - Neuromancer
Gail Godwin
Paula Gosling - Solo Blues, or The Zero Trap
Philippa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl
Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants
Jon Hassler - A Green Journey
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Tony Hendra - Father Joe
James Herriot - All Creatures Great and Small, all others
Alice Hoffman - The Ice Queen, The River King, and any others
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany
Graham Joyce – The Tooth Fairy
James Joyce - Dubliners
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
Jan Karon - At Home in Mitford
Jon Katz - The Dogs of Bedlam Farm, or A Dog Year, or any of his books
Jennifer Kaufman – A Version of the Truth
Jack Kerouac - Atop an Underwood
Laurie R. King - The Beekeeper’s Apprentice (and series)
Stephen King - Everything’s Eventual
Barbara Kingsolver - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, or Prodigal Summer
Sale William Kotzwinkle - Walter the Farting Dog: Trouble at the Yard
Anne Lamott - Blue Shoe
Beverly Lewis
C. S. Lewis - The Narnia Chronicles
Kevin Lewis – Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Gift From the Sea
Richard Louv - Last Child in the Woods
Lois Lowry – The Giver
Sarah-Kate Lynch – Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
Charlotte MacLeod - Sarah Kelling Series, or the Peter Shandy Series
Merrill Markoe - Walking in Circles Before Lying Down
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
W. Somerset Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence
James Michener – Hawaii
Cesar Millan - Cesar's Way
Sue Kidd Monk - The Secret Life of Bees
Greg Mortenson - Three Cups of Tea
Mother Goose - The Real Mother Goose
Jenny Nimmo – Children of the Red King Series
Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander
Joel Osteen - Your Best Life Now
Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank (and series)
Marge Piercy – Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir
Rosamunde Pilcher - Coming Home, or The Shell Seekers
Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass (and series)
Barbara Pym
Daniel Quinn - Ishmael
Jeanne Ray - Julie and Romeo
Miss Read
Luanne Rice - Sandcastles
Jana Richman – The Last Cowgirl
Emily Rodda - The Forests of Silence
Laura Joh Rowland
Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones
Dr. Seuss - Horton Hatches the Egg, or How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Jacqueline Sheehan – Lost and Found
Nevil Shute - The Legacy (aka: A Town Like Alice)
Anne Rivers Siddons
Lee Smith
Mark Spragg – An Unfinished Life
Lynne Truss - Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
Vendela Vida - Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
Susan Vreeland - The Passion of Artemisia
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-five
Peter Watson – Landscape of Lies
Tina Welling – Crybaby Ranch
E.B. White - Charlotte’s Web
Walter Wick - Can You See What I See?
Connie Willis – Passage, or To Say Nothing of the Dog
Susan Wilson - Cameo Lake
Simon Winchester - Krakatoa
Henry Winkler - The Hank Zipzer Series
Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-word Memoirs from Smith Magazine
Audiobooks
Michael Chabon – The Yiddish Policeman’s Union (read by Paul Reiser)
Phillipa Gregory - The Virgin's Lover (read by Graeme Malcolm)
Sue Monk Kidd – The Secret life of Bees (read by Jenna Lamia)
Philip Pullman – His Dark Materials series (read by cast)
J.K. Rowling – The Harry Potter series (read by Jim Dale)
Movies
The Age of Innocence
American Gangster
The American President
Breaking Away
Death at a Funeral
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
FargoFerris Bueller’s Day Off
The Fifth Element
Flushed Away
Galaxy Quest
Game PlanThe Godfather
Gladiator
Keeping Mum
King of Hearts
The Lake House
The Last Picture Show
Love Actually
Miss Potter
Monty Python and the Holy GrailNational Treasure
Oklahoma
Oliver Twist – Roman Polanski, Director
The Others
Out of Africa
Pollyanna
The Prestige
The Rookie
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Sixteen Candles
Tootsie
When Harry Met Sally
Young Frankenstein
Music
B-52’s – B-52’s
Chet Baker Sings
The Beatles – Love
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Brooks & Dunn – Greatest Hits Collection
Chris Daughtry
Depeche Mode – Violator
Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
Electric Light Orchestra – A New World Record
Bela Fleck
Fleetwood Mac – Rumors
Steve Forbert – Alive on Arrival
J. Geils Band – Love Stinks
Alan Jackson - Gratest Hits Collection
Michael Jackson – Thriller
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, or Rocket Man
Jonas Brothers
Alison Krauss
Madonna – True Blue
Johnny Mathis
John Mellencamp – Scarecrow
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Bette Midler – The Divine Miss M
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Alan Parsons Project – Ultimate
Phish
Pinetop Perkins – Ladies Man
Pretenders – Pretenders
Rascal Flatts
R.E.M. – Automatic for the People
Rolling Stones – Some Girls
Bob Seger – Night Moves
Paul Simon – Graceland
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
Bruce Springsteen – Magic
Steely Dan – Aja
U2 – The Joshua Tree, or Actung Baby
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
West Side Story - Movie Soundtrack
Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life |
PATRON FAVORITES
Books
Richard Adams – Watership Down
Mitch Albom - Five People You Meet in Heaven
Ted Arnold
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
W. Awdry – Thomas the Tank Engine and Series
Donald Bain – Coffee, Tea or Me
David Baldacci – Total Control
H. E. Bates – The Purple Plain
M. C. Beaton
Ludwig Bemelmans – Madeline
Philip Bernardi – Improvisation Starters
Maeve Binchy – Tara Road, and Three complete books
Lawrence Block
Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43
Sandra Boynton – Blue Moo
Marion Zimmer Bradley – Mists of Avalon
Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Series
Libba Bray
Kate Brian - Fake Boyfriend
Norman Bridwell - Clifford’s Birthday Party
Dan Brown - Angels and Demons, or the Da Vinci Code
Rita Mae Brown
Ken Bruen
Bill Bryson – A Short History of Nearly Everything
Frances H. Burnett – The Secret Garden
Georgia Byng – Molly Moon Series
Eric Carle – The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and all others
Deepak Chopra
Agatha Christie – At Bertram’s Hotel, and all others
Mary Higgins Clark
Barbara Colley – Scrub-a-Dub Dead
Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone
Pat Conroy – The Prince of Tides or The Great Santini
Bryce Courtenay – The Power of One
Roald Dahl – Matilda
Ted Dekker
Sarah Dessen – The Truth about Forever
Yann-Brice Dherbier – Grace Kelly: A Life in Pictures
Anita Diamant - The Red Tent
Kate DiCamillo – Tale of Desperaux
Tony DiTerlizzi – The Spiderwick Chronicles
Jennifer Donnelly - Tea Rose
Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
Aaron and Charlotte Elkins - Where have all the birdies gone?
Janet Evanovich - Stephanie Plum Series and all others
Richard Paul Evans – The Gift
Jack Finney - Time and Again
Fannie Flagg - Can’t wait to get to heaven
D. W. Flips
Ken Follett – Pillars of the Earth
Ariana Franklin – City of Shadows, or The Mistress of the Art of Death
Cornelia Funke – Inkspell
Diana Gabaldon - The Outlander series
Lisa Gardner
Neil Gaiman – American Gods
Paul Galdone – Little Red Hen
Peter Genovese - New Jersey Curiosities
Jean Craighead George – Julie of the Wolves
Al Gore – Assault on Reason
Sue Grafton - A to Z mysteries
Dan Greenburg – Secrets of Dripping Fang Series
Alan Greenspan - The Age of Turbulence
Brothers Grimm
James Grippando - Lying With Strangers
John Grisham – Playing for Pizza, or Skipping Christmas
Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants
Dan Gutman – Mrs. Yonkers is Bonkers!
Judith Hackbarth – Plays, Players, and Playing
Margaret Peterson Haddix - Among the Hidden
Esther Hautzig – The Endless Steppe
Kevin Henkes – Wemberly Worried, or Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
Carl Hiaasen
Elin Hilderbrand - Blue Bistro
S. E. Hinton – The Outsiders
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner, or A Thousand Splendid Suns
Arthur Howard - Hoodwinked
Erin Hunter – Warriors Series
John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany
Brian Jacques – Rakkety Tam, or Mattimeo
Lynette Jensen – Thimbleberries quilting books
James Joyce – Ulysses
Jan Karon – At Home in Mitford (and series)
Thomas Keneally – Schindler’s List
Jack Kerouac – On the Road
Diana Kimpton – Pony-crazed Princess Series
Stephen King - The Stand and all others
Barbara Kingsolver – The Poisonwood Bible
Jeff Kinney – Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Masashi Kishimoto - Naruto (graphic novel series)
Tim LaHaye - Left Behind Series
Ursula LeGuin
Beverly Lewis – The Crossroad
Joan Lowell – Cradle of the Deep
Lois Lowry
Robert Ludlum – Hades Factor
Kate Lum – What! Cried Granny
Mike Lupica - Heat
Debbie Macomber – 15 Lighthouse Road, Back On Blossom Street and all others
Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes
Jack McDevitt
Megan McDonald – Meet Julie
John McEvoy - Rider Down
Robin McKinley - Rose Daughter
Kate McMullan – I Stink
Gregory Maguire - Wicked
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Ann Martin – Kristy and the Baby Panda
Robert K. Massie – Nicholas and Alexandra
Joan Medlicott – The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love & Series
Herman Melville – Moby Dick
Stephenie Meyer – Twilight Series
Fern Michaels – Revenge of the Sisterhood Series, or Vendetta
Jacquelyn Mitchard – Still Summer
Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind
Denise Mortensen – Good Night Engines
Christine Morton-Shaw - The Riddles of Epsilon
Laura Joffe Numeroff – Monster Munchies
Sandra Day O’Connor - Lazy B
Scott O’Dell – Island of the Blue Dolphins
George Orwell – Animal Farm
Sharon Owens -Tavern on Mulberry Street
Barbara Park
Robert Parker
Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
James Patterson - Double Cross, Alex Cross series, and all others
David J. Pelzer – A Man Named Dave
Otto Penzler – The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
Anne Perry
Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank
Jodi Picoult – The Pact, or My Sister’s Keeper
Rosamunde Pilcher – The Shell Seekers
Dav Pilkey - Captain Underpants
Michael Pollan - In defense of food, or Omnivore’s Dilemma
Terry Pratchett – The Fifth Elephant
Douglas Preston - The 12th Card
Annie Proulx
Fred Ramsey- Artscape
H.A. Ray - Curious George
Rick Riordan - The Titans Curse
Alexandra Ripley – Scarlett
J. D. Robb – In Death Series
Gregory David Roberts - Shantaram
Nora Roberts – The Villa
Anne Rockwell - Good Morning Digger and all others
Carolyne Roehm – At Home with Carolyne Roehm
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and all
J. D. Salinger – Catcher in the Rye
Margaret Ann Salinger – Dream Catcher
John Sandford
Barry Sears – The Zone
Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones
Lisa See - Snow Flower, or Peony in Love
Maurice Sendak – Where the Wild Things Are
Dr. Seuss – The Cat in the Hat, or Green Eggs and Ham
Henrik Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis
Alexander McCall Smith - The No. 1 Ladie’s Detective Agency
Betty Smith – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Anne Soffee – Snake Hips
Danielle Steel - Sisters, or Amazing Grace and all others
John Steinbeck – Grapes of Wrath
Michael Stern - The Blue Willow Inn Cookbook
R.L Stine – Headless Ghost (Goosebumps Series)
Robert Tanenbaum - Butch Karp Series
J.R.R. Tolkien – Lord of the Rings
P.L. Travers – Mary Poppins
Mark Twain – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Jeannette Walls - The Glass Castle
H. G. Wells – The Time Machine
Rosemary Wells
John Welter – Night of the Avenging Blowfish
Tracey West - Island of the Giant Pokemon
E. B. White – Charlotte’s Web or Stuart Little
Randy Wayne White – Doc Ford Series
Susan Wiggs – The Winter Lodge
Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prairie
Mo Willems – Knuffle Bunny
Laurence Yep – Bravo, Mia!
Jane Yolen – How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food, or The Devil’s Arithmetic
Harriet Ziefert - Posie Prefers Pink
Gene Zion – Harry the Dirty Do
Art books – about techniques and about artists
Biographies
Cake Decorating Books
Cookbooks
Crocheting
everything
Health books and health magazines
Home Interior Decoration
Houdini
Knitting
Magazines on home design & crafts
Mysteries
New Jersey – Fun places to go to in NJ
Photography – technical and biographical
Poetry
Quilting Books
San Francisco - Books about
Submarines
There were so many favorites it was impossible to choose.
Too many favorites to choose!!!
Too many great books to list
True Stories
Victorian America
Vietnam – Photographic History
My very first book from a library was Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans. It was suggested by the librarian and was the beginning of my love of reading.
Audiobooks
Ann Brashares – The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (read by Angela Goethals)
Ted Dekker – Circle Series (read by Rob lamont)
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner (read by the author)
J.D. Robb - In Death series (read by Susan Ericksen)
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter series (read by Jim Dale)
Movies
An Affair to Remember
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple Series
Backstairs at the White House
Ballykissangel Series
Breach
Casablanca
Da Vinci Code
The Departed
Doctor Zhivago
Dreamer
Dumb and Dumber
Dumbo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fiddler on the Roof
Game Plan
Gilmore Girls Series
The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II
Gone with the Wind
Grinch
Happy Gilmore
Hawaii
History of Violence
Hoot
House
I am Legend
In Her Shoes
King Kong
Legally Blonde
Life Is Beautiful
Little Miss Sunshine
The Lord of the Ring Series
Lost Prince
Lost Series
Me, Myself and Irene
The Mist
Mothman Prophecies
Muppet Show
Nacho Libre
No Country for Old Men
Oliver!
Quiet Man
Riverdance
Schindler’s List
The Shootist
Snow White
The Sopranos – First and Second Seasons
Space Jam
Star Wars Series
A Streetcar Named Desire
Transformers
300
24
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?
Upstairs/Downstairs
What a Girl Wants
Music
Band – The Last Waltz
The Beatles - Love
Doodlebops. Get on the Bus!
Bob Dylan
Flaming Lips
Grateful Dead
Guns n’ Roses
Journey
Alicia Keys
Avril Lavigne
Lullabies Around the World
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Murder Is My Beat: Classic Film Noir Themes
Pink Floyd
Rascal Flats
Camille Saint-Saens – Symphony No. 3
George Strait
Peter Illich Tchaikovsky
Tanya Tucker
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