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Suggestions for a Library Donation
« on: 17 Jun 2010, 20:47 »

I recently got a scholarship and as a result the public/school library received 200 dollars to use. The librarian has asked me to select some books for the library to purchase, and I'm clueless. I would really appreciate some suggestions to make me look good. I think ideally these books should be stuff that teenagers would read, but anything will work. Thanks!
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Re: Suggestions for a Library Donation
« Reply #1 on: 17 Jun 2010, 20:59 »

Neil Gaiman books

go for Good Omens in particular
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Re: Suggestions for a Library Donation
« Reply #2 on: 17 Jun 2010, 21:30 »

off the top of my head?

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Dune by Frank Herbert
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
Looking for Jake by China Miéville
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Approaching Oblivion by Harlan Ellison
Shatterday by Harlan Ellison
The Bhagavad Gita
Tao te Ching
Dialogues of Plato
Socratic Dialogues
Inferno by Dante
The Prince by Machiavelli
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck


and then the abridged ALA list of Banned and/or Challenged Classics (there might be some repeats)

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
9. 1984 by George Orwell
10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
13. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
23. Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
37. The World According to Garp by John Irving
38. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
39. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
40. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
41. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
44. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
51. My Antonia by Willa Cather
52. Howards End by E. M. Forster
53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
56. Jazz by Toni Morrison
57. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
58. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
59. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
62. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
64. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
66. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
68. Light in August by William Faulkner
69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
82. White Noise by Don DeLillo
83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
85. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
87. The Bostonians by Henry James
88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie


don't know how well yr school is stocked but every single one should have copies of these books.
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Re: Suggestions for a Library Donation
« Reply #3 on: 17 Jun 2010, 23:54 »

A box of classic Hustlers.
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Re: Suggestions for a Library Donation
« Reply #5 on: 18 Jun 2010, 06:48 »

How about some postcolonial literature?

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - A Grain Of Wheat
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Patricia Grace - Potiki
David Malouf - Remembering Babylon
Saadat Hasan Manto - Mottled Dawn; Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition
Khushwant Singh - Train To Pakistan
Attia Hosain - Sunlight On A Broken Column
J.M. Coetzee - Waiting For The Barbarians
Frantz Fanon - The Wretched Of The Earth
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Re: Suggestions for a Library Donation
« Reply #6 on: 18 Jun 2010, 08:38 »

There's over a hundred books in the guy's bibliography on wikipedia, and that might well not be complete. You probably couldn't get everything the guy wrote on linguistics for $200 let alone the books on politics, so you probably need to be a tad more specific.

Good idea though.
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Re: Suggestions for a Library Donation
« Reply #7 on: 18 Jun 2010, 11:33 »

Buy $200 worth of permanent markers and go through the library's collection looking for anything that corrupts the youth.
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Re: Suggestions for a Library Donation
« Reply #8 on: 19 Jun 2010, 00:43 »

i'd suggest Little Brother specifically, but just about anything else by cory doctorow would also make a worthy addition to the library.
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Re: Suggestions for a Library Donation
« Reply #9 on: 22 Jun 2010, 06:28 »

If they are missing one of the major Terry Pratchet books pick one of them up.
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