The Northport, NY Selections for the
60 BEST BOOKS OF THE CENTURY
Beginning at highest number of votes:
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The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
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To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
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The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
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Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
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The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss
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Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
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One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
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The Godfather, Mario Puzo
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
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Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
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Catch-22, Joseph Heller
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Green Eggs & Ham, Dr. Seuss
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The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
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Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
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The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein
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The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
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Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
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Ulysses, James Joyce
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For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
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Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson
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Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
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Beloved, Toni Morrison
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Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
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The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
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1984, George Orwell
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On the Road, Jack Kerouac
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The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
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Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
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The Stand, Stephen King
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A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
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The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The World According to Garp, John Irving
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A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
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The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
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Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
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Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
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Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
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The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
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Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
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An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
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Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
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The Call of the Wild, Jack London
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Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
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Lord of the Flies, William Golding
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Night, Elie Wiesel
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
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The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
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Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
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Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers
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Morris's Disappearing Bag, Rosemary Wells
The staff at the Northport Public Library set up voting booths for two
months in the Summer of 1999 for patrons to cast their votes for the Best
Books of the Century. The above list is the result of tabulating
the community's many votes. These titles are carved into George W.
Hart's Millennium BookBall sculpture.