FYI...knowing what people read and what influenced them is interesting and advisory to librarians. The many responses are well worth reviewing by anyone developing library collections. You can go to the link and read what people responded and their reasons why.
Fascinating stuff, just a little bit dismaying. I don't think I could come up with just one book. It would be interesting if people could choose ten or twenty, and see if the results were the same.
The OCLC list shows, I believe, how often libraries weed bestsellers but don't remove their holdings from OCLC. At least I hope that's what it reflects - nineteen books by John Grisham, and only five by Thomas Hardy?
FYI...knowing what people read and what influenced them is interesting and advisory to librarians. The many responses are well worth reviewing by anyone developing library collections. You can go to the link and read what people responded and their reasons why.
Fascinating stuff, just a little bit dismaying. I don't think I could come up with just one book. It would be interesting if people could choose ten or twenty, and see if the results were the same.
The OCLC list shows, I believe, how often libraries weed bestsellers but don't remove their holdings from OCLC. At least I hope that's what it reflects - nineteen books by John Grisham, and only five by Thomas Hardy?
Crime and Punishment -Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great Expectations -Charles Dickens
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest -Ken Kesey
No Shakespeare .. ? :/