Adult Favorites 1999

Here are the results in the adult category from the first Mid-York Library System's Reader's Choice survey. Follow the links to more information about your favorite author or book:

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1. Gone with the Wind
   by Margaret Mitchell
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
   by Harper Lee
3. Jane Eyre
   by Charlotte Bronte
4. Trinity
   by Leon Uris
5. Angela's Ashes
   by Frank McCourt
6. The Lord of the Rings
   by J. R. R. Tolkien
7. The Bible
8. Wuthering Heights
   by Emily Bronte
9. A Bell for Adano
   by John Hershey
10. The Stand
    by Stephen King
11. Message in a Bottle
    by Nicholas Sparks
12. Little Women
    by Louisa May Alcott
13. Complete Works of William Shakespeare
    by William Shakespeare
14. The Shell Seekers
    by Rosamunde Pilcher
15. I Know This Much Is True
    by Wally Lamb
16. One True Thing
    by Anna Quindlen
17. The Bridges of Madison County
    by Robert James Waller
18. The Thorn Birds
    by Colleen McCullough
19. A Prayer for Owen Meary
    by John Irving
20. The Notebook
    by Nicholas Sparks
21. The Source
    by James A. Michener
22. The Accidental Tourist
    by Anne Tyler
23. Mitford series
    by Jan Karon
24. Light a Penny Candle
    by Maeve Binchy
25. The Hobbit
    by J. R. R. Tolkien
26. The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck
27. Where the Heart Is
    by Billie Letts
28. The Man Who Listens to Horses
    by Monty Roberts
29. Beach Music
    by Pat Conroy
30. The Secret Garden
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett
31. The Scarlet Thread
    by Francine Rivers
32. At Home in Mitford
    by Jan Karon
33. The Gift
    by Danielle Steel
34. The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand
35. Exodus
    by Leon Uris
36. Rebecca
    by Daphne DuMaurier
37. The Simple Truth
    by David Baldacci
38. The Persian Pickle Club
    by Sandra Dallas
39. The Greatest Generation
    by Tom Brokaw
40. Loves Music, Loves to Dance
    by Mary Higgins Clark
41. Pope Joan
    by Donna W. Cross
42. Snow Falling on Cedars
    by David Guterson
43. Outlander series
    by Diane Gabaldon
44. On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac
45. Conversations with God
    by Neale D. Walsch
46. Cold Sassy Tree
    by Olive Ann Burns
47. September
    by Rosamunde Pilcher
48. Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood
    by Rebecca Wells
49. Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson
50. Love Story
    by Erich Segal
51. The Mists of Avalon
    by Marion Z. Bradley
52. The Shining
    by Stephen King
53. The Clan of the Cave Bear
    by Jean Auel
54. The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo
55. Papa, My Father: A Celebration of Dads
    by Leo Buscaglia
56. Cold Mountain
    by Charles Frazier
57. The Prophet
    by Kahlil Gibran
58. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff 
    by Richard Carlson
59. Three Wishes
    by Barbara Delinsky
60. Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand
61. Hawaii
    by James A. Michener
62. Anne of Green Gables
    by Lucy Maud Montgomery
63. Watchers
    by Dean Koontz
64. Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
65. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    by Betty Smith
66. Homeport
    by Nora Roberts
67. A Time to Kill
    by John Grisham
68. Little House on the Prairie
    by Laura Ingalls Wilder
69. Jewels
    by Danielle Steel
70. It
    by Stephen King
71. His Bright Light
    by Danielle Steel
72. The Loop
    by Nicholas Evans
73. The Yearling
    by Marjorie K. Rawlings
74. Finders Keepers
    by Fern Michaels
75. In Danger's Path
    by W. E. B. Griffin
76. The Illustrated Man
    by Ray Bradbury
77. The Forgotten Soldier
    by Guy Sajer
78. Garden of Lies
    by Eileen Goudge
79. The Incredible Journey
    by Sheila Burnford
80. The Genesis Code
    by John F. Case
81. The Far Pavilions
    by M. M. Kaye
82. The Investigators
    by W. E. B. Griffith
83. The Ghost
    by Danielle Steel
84. A Game of Thrones
    by George R. R. Martin
85. The Indian Heart of Carrie Hodges
    by Katy Peake
86. For the Roses
    by Julie Garwood
87. Fly High, Fly Low
    by Don Freeman
88. If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules
    by Cherie Carter-Scott
89. The Glass Lake
    by Maeve Binchy
90. Flight of Eagles
    by Jack Higgins
91. Into the Wilderness
    by Sara Donati
92. Five Days in Paris
    by Danielle Steel
93. Inn at Lake Devine
    by Elinor Lipman
94. Inner Harbor
    by Nora Roberts
95. First You Have to Row
    by Richard Bode
96. The Firm
    by John Grisham
97. Firehouse Magazine
98. Homeland
    by John Jakes
99. Here Be Dragons
    by Sharon Kay Penman
100. Heidi
     by Johanna Spyri
101. Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
     by Jacki Lyden
102. Hidden Riches
     by Nora Roberts
103. The Hiding Place
     by Corrie Ten Boom
104. Hippos Go Berserk
     by Sandra Boynton
105. The Haunting of Hill House
     by Shirley Jackson
106. Hatchet
     by Gary Paulsen
107. Harriet, the Spy
     by Louise Fitzhugh
108. Green City in the Sun
     by Barbara Wood
109. Exploring 200 Years of Oneida County History
     compiled and edited by Don White
110. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
     by Douglas Adams
111. Ice Station Zebra
     by Alistair MacLean
112. Hold the Dream
     by Barbara Bradford
113. Idiot
     by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
114. Honest Illusions
     by Nora Roberts
115. The House of the Spirits
     by Isabel Allende
116. The Hunt for Red October
     by Tom Clancy
117. God Is an Englishman
     by R. F. Delderfield
118. The Glorious Adventure
     by Richard Halliburton
119. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
     by Maya Angelou
120. I Married Adventure
     by Osa Johnson
121. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
     by Joanne Greenberg
122. I'll Be Seeing You
     by Mary Higgins Clark
123. Hero for Henry
     by Herbert R. Purdum
124. The Giver
     by Lois Lowry
125. Gift from the Sea
     by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
126. Great Divorce
     by C. S. Lewis
127. Breach of Promise
     by Anne Perry
128. Beulah Land
     by Lonnie Coleman
129. Beyond Good and Evil
     by Friedrich Nietzsche
130. The BFG
     by Roald Dahl
131. The Big Bad City
     by Ed McBain
132. The Big Sky
     by A. B. Guthrie
133. Black Like Me
     by John Howard Griffin
134. Blood Work
     by Michael Connelly
135. The Bonfire of the Vanities
     by Tom Wolfe
136. Dinotopia
     by James Gurney
137. The Boy Knight of Reims
     by Eloise Lownsbery
138. Behind the Wall: A Season on the NASCAR Circuit
     by Richard M. Huff
139. The Call of the Wild
     by Jack London
140. Came a Cavalier
     by Frances Parkinson Keyes
141. The Cat Who Came to Breakfast
     by Lilian Jackson Braun
142. The Cat Who Lived High
     by Lilian Jackson Braun
143. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
     by Lilian Jackson Braun
144. The Cat Who Saw Stars
     by Lilian Jackson Braun
145. Catch-22
     by Joseph Heller
146. Born in Fire
     by Nora Roberts
147. Anna Karenina
     by Leo Tolstoy
148. 19 Purchase Street
     by Gerald A. Browne
149. 84, Charing Cross Road
     by Helene Hanff
150. Alas, Babylon
     by Pat Frank
151. All Creatures Great and Small
     by James Herriot
152. All the Trouble in the World
     by P. J. O'Rourke
153. All Through the Night
     by Mary Higgins Clark
154. Alphabet series
     by Sue Grafton
155. Angels Along the Way
     by Della Reese
156. The Best Laid Plans
     by Sidney Sheldon
157. Animalia
     by Graeme Base
158. The Best and the Brightest
     by David Halberstam
159. Anthem
     by Ayn Rand
160. The Art of Raising a Puppy
     by the Monks of New Skete
161. The Awakening
     by Kate Chopin
162. Babysitters Club
     by Ann M. Martin
163. Bad Love
     by Jonathan Kellerman
164. The Bad Place
     by Dean Koontz
165. The Bean Trees
     by Barbara Kingsolver
166. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
     by Kate Atkinson
167. The Chamber
     by John Grisham
168. Animal Dreams
     by Barbara Kingsolver
169. Dragonflight
     by Anne McCaffrey
170. Centennial
     by James A. Michener
171. Cosmos
     by Carl Sagan
172. Crossing to Safety
     by Wallace Stegner
173. Cujo
     by Stephen King
174. Dark Matter, Missing Planets, and New Comets
     by Tom Van Flandern
175. Let Me Call You Sweetheart
     by Mary Higgins Clark
176. Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
     by Dave Barry
177. Invisible Man
     by Ralph Ellison
178. Coma
     by Robin Cook
179. The Color Purple
     by Alice Walker
180. Dream Man
     by Linda Howard
181. Drums Along the Mohawk
     by Walter Edmonds
182. The Eagle Has Landed
     by Jack Higgins
183. East of Eden
     by John Steinbeck
184. The Education of Little Tree
     by Forrest Carter
185. Elegy for Iris
     by John Bayley
186. Elena
     by Judith Egan
187. Ender's Game
     by Orson Scott Card
188. Evergreen
     by Belva Plain
189. Disappearing Acts
     by Terry McMillan
190. Chronicles of Narnia
     by C. S. Lewis
191. Fall of Freddie the Leaf
     by Leo Buscaglia
192. Charlotte's Web
     by E. B. White
193. Chesapeake
     by James A. Michener
194. Chicken Soup for the Soul
     edited by Jack Canfield
195. Childhood's End
     by Arthur C. Clarke
196. China Boy
     by Gus Lee
197. Chinese Handcuffs
     by Chris Crutcher
198. Choke
     by Stuart Woods
199. Contract with an Angel
     by Andrew Greeley
200. Christy
     by Catherine Marshall
201. Ceremony
     by Leslie Marmon Silko
202. The Cider House Rules
     by John Irving
203. Circle of Friends
     by Maeve Binchy
204. Circus of Dr. Loa
     by Charles Finney
205. Citizen Soldiers
     by Stephen Ambrose
206. Client
     by John Grisham
207. Cloister Walk
     by Kathleen Norris
208. Collected Poems
     by Robert W. Service
209. College Cruise
     created by Francine Pascal
210. The Color of Water
     by James McBride
211. Christine
     by Stephen King
212. Stories That Could Be True
     by William Stafford
213. Leave Her to Heaven
     by Ben Ames Williams
214. Small Sacrifices
     by Ann Rule
215. Solar Storms
     by Linda Hogan
216. Sometimes a Great Notion
     by Ken Kesey
217. Sophie's Choice
     by William Styron
218. The Soul of a Cop
     by Paul Ragonese and Berry Stainback
219. The Sound and the Fury
     by William Faulkner
220. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
     by Anne Fadiman
221. Small Ceremonies
     by Carol Shields
222. Stillmeadow Calendar
     by Gladys Taber
223. Singing Wilderness
     by Sigurd F. Olson
224. The Story of My Life
     by Helen Keller
225. The Street Lawyer
     by John Grisham
226. The Sum of All Fears
     by Tom Clancy
227. Summer Sisters
     by Judy Blume
228. The Sun Also Rises
     by Ernest Hemingway
229. Sundial of the Seasons
     by Hal Borland
230. Supergrandpa
     by David M. Schwartz
231. Sword of Truth series
     by Terry Goodkind
232. Still Life with Woodpecker
     by Tom Robbins
233. The Secret Woman
     by Victoria Holt
234. The Rowan
     by Anne McCafferty
235. Ruby
     by V. C. Andrews
236. Russka
     by Edward Rutherfurd
237. Sacajawea
238. The Sacketts
     by Louis L'Amour
239. The Scarlet Letter
     by Nathaniel Hawthorne
240. The Screwtape Letters
     by C. S. Lewis
241. Sea Trilogy
     by Nora Roberts
242. Small Gods
     by Terry Pratchett
243. Second Child
     by John Saul
244. Tell Me No Lies
     by Elizabeth Lowell
245. Seven Storey Mountain
     by Thomas Merton
246. Shanna
     by Kathleen Woodiwiss
247. Shiloh Autumn
     by Brodie & Brock Thoene
248. Shogun
     by James Clavell
249. Short History of a Prince
     by Jane Hamilton
250. Simple Abundance
     by Sarah Breathnach
251. A Simple Path
     by Mother Teresa
252. A Simple Plan
     by Scott Smith
253. Sea Swept
     by Nora Roberts
254. Whitney, My Love
     by Judith McNaught
255. Waiting to Exhale
     by Terry McMillan
256. The Wake of the Wind
     by J. California Cooper
257. A Walk in the Woods
     by Bill Bryson
258. The Walking Drum
     by Louis L'Amour
259. War and Peace
     by Leo Tolstoy
260. Watership Down
     by Richard Adams
261. The Western Canon
     by Harold Bloom
262. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
     by Pearl Cleage
263. A Tale of Two Cities
     by Charles Dickens
264. Where the Red Fern Grows
     by Wilson Rawls
265. The Unlikely Spy
     by Daniel Silva
266. The Wind in the Willows
     by Kenneth Grahame
267. Wit and Wisdom
     by George Burns
268. The Wolves of Willoughby
     by Joan Aiken
269. A Woman of Substance
     by Barbara Bradford
270. A Wrinkle in Time
     by Madeleine L'Engle
271. The Writing Life
     by Annie Dillard
272. You Belong to Me
     by Mary Higgins Clark
273. Young Men & Fire
     by Norman Maclean
274. Tish
     by Mary Roberts Rinehart
275. Roots
     by Alex Haley
276. The Ten Commandments
     by Laura Schlessinger
277. Terms of Endearment
     by Larry McMurtry
278. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
     by Thomas Hardy
279. This Matter of Marriage
     by Debbie Macomber
280. This Side of Paradise
     by F. Scott Fitzgerald
281. Tidewater Lover Virginia
     by Janet Dailey
282. Tim
     by Colleen McCullough
283. The Vampire Lestat
     by Anne Rice
284. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
     by Annie Dillard
285. Unnatural Exposure
     by Patricia Cornwell
286. Tom Sawyer
     by Mark Twain
287. A Town Like Alice
     by Nevil Shute
288. Tropic of Capricorn
     by Henry Miller
289. Truman
     by David McCullough
290. Tuesdays with Morrie
     by Mitch Albom
291. Uncle Tom's Cabin
     by Harriet Beecher Stowe
292. Undaunted Courage
     by Stephen Ambrose
293. Unfinished Symphony
     by V. C. Andrews
294. Tears of Rage
     by John Walsh
295. Timepiece
     by Richard Paul Evans
296. The Lost World
     by Michael Crichton
297. Life the Movie
     by Neal Gabler
298. Lightning
     by Danielle Steel
299. Lincoln
     by Gore Vidal
300. The Little Prince
     by Antoine de Saint Exupery
301. The Locket
     by Richard Paul Evans
302. The Long Walk
     by Slavomir Rawicz
303. Lord Jim
     by Joseph Conrad
304. The Lost Boy
     by David Pelzer
305. Message from Nam
     by Danielle Steel
306. The Lost King
     by Margaret Weis
307. The Letter
     by Richard Paul Evans
308. Love Comes Softly
     by Janette Oke
309. Love You Forever
     by Robert Munsch
310. Lust for Life
     by Irving Stone
311. The Magic of Sex
     by Miriam Stoppard
312. Marianne
     by George Sand
313. Master and Commander
     by Patrick O'Brian
314. Memoirs of a Geisha
     by Arthur Golden
315. Round the Bend
     by Nevil Shute
316. Lost Horizon
     by James Hilton
317. Kiss the Girls
     by James Patterson
318. Island of the Blue Dolphins
     by Scott O'Dell
319. Jack and Jill
     by Louisa May Alcott
320. Joe Morgan: A Life in Baseball
     by Joe Morgan and David Falkner
321. Johnny Got His Gun
     by Dalton Trumbo
322. Joshua
     by Joseph Girzone
323. The Joy Luck Club
     by Amy Tan
324. Junie B. Jones
     by Barbara Park
325. Jurassic Park: The Lost World
     by Michael Crichton
326. Life with Noah
     by William J. O'Hern
327. Kim
     by Rudyard Kipling
328. Life with Its Sorrow, Life with Its Tear
     by Lester Atwell
329. A Knight in Shining Armor
     by Jude Deveraux
330. Kristin Lavransdatter
     by Sigrid Undset
331. Ladder of Years
     by Anne Tyler
332. The Last Heroes
     by W. E. B. Griffin
333. Last of the Breed
     by Louis L'Amour
334. The Last of the Mohicans
     by James Fenimore Cooper
335. Les Miserables
     by Victor Hugo
336. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
     by Robert Pirsig
337. Moby Dick
     by Herman Melville
338. Karen
     by Marie Killilea
339. The Remains of the Day
     by Kazuo Ishiguro
340. Pillars of the Earth
     by Ken Follett
341. Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
     by Sei Shonagon
342. The Power of Miracles
     by Joan Anderson
343. The Power of One
     by Bryce Courtenay
344. Pride and Prejudice
     by Jane Austen
345. The Promise
     by Danielle Steel
346. Rabbit at Rest
     by John Updike
347. Rage of Angels
     by Sidney Sheldon
348. Mercy
     by David Lindsey
349. Red River of the North
     by Lauraine Snelling
350. A Patchwork Planet
     by Anne Tyler
351. Requiem
     by Graham Joyce
352. Reservation Road
     by John Schwartz
353. The Riddle-Master of Hed
     by Patricia A. McKillip
354. A Ring of Endless Light
     by Madeleine L'Engle
355. The Robe
     by Lloyd C. Douglas
356. Rodale's Encyclopedia of Gardening
     edited by Barbara Ellis
357. Romeo and Juliet
     by William Shakespeare
358. Ishmael
     by Daniel Quinn
359. The Rainmaker
     by John Grisham
360. One Hundred Years of Solitude
     by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
361. Mossflower
     by Brian Jacques
362. Mutiny on the Bounty
     by CharlesNordhoff and James Hall
363. My Gal Sunday
     by Mary Higgins Clark
364. No Ordinary Time
     by Doris K. Goodwin
365. No Time to Cry
     by Lurlene McDaniel
366. The Odyssey
     by Homer
367. Of Mice and Men
     by John Steinbeck
368. Olivia
     by V. C. Andrews
369. Perfect
     by Judith McNaught
370. One for the Money
     by Janet Evanovich
371. The Pelican Brief
     by John Grisham
372. The Ooze
     by R. L. Stine
373. The Other Side of Midnight
     by Sidney Sheldon
374. Our Alaskan Winter
     by Constance Helmericks
375. Out of the Ashes
     by William Johnstone
376. Out of the Dust
     by Karen Hesse
377. Outbreak
     by Robin Cook
378. The Outsiders
     by S. E. Hinton
379. The Pain and the Great One
     by Judy Blume
380. Hawaii
     by James A. Michener
381. Roughing It
     by Mark Twain
382. On Being Human
     by Fulton J. Sheen
      
      

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